Calendar of Literary Facts

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Calendar of Literary Facts

1960

• Giorgos Seferis publishes his best-known poem, “Mythistorema,” in his collection entitled Poems
• Anne Hebert publishes Poemes (Poems)
• Russell Hoban publishes Bedtime for Frances
• Randall Jarrell publishes The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Poems and Translations
• John Knowles publishes A Separate Peace
• Victoria Holt publishes Mistress of Mellyn
• Arthur Kopit publishes Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad: A Tragifarce in a Bastard French Tradition
• Artur Lundkvist publishes Agadir
• Boris Pasternak dies
• Harper Lee publishes To Kill a Mockingbird
• Anna Akhmatova publishes Poem Without a Hero
• Che Guevara publishes La guerra de guerrillas (Guerrilla Warfare)
• Elias Canetti publishes Masse und Macht (Crowds and Power)
• The Pulitzer Prize in drama is awarded to the creators of Fiorello! (Book by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick)
• Allen Drury receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Advise and Consent
• In a landmark obscenity trial, Regina v. Penguin Books Ltd, the court determines that D. H. Lawrence’s long-banned novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover is not obscene
• U.S. presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy debate on television
• The first weather satellite, Tiros I is launched by the U.S.
• American U-2 spy plane is shot down over the Soviet Union, pilot Gary Francis Powers is captured
• Seventeen African nations, formerly colonies of European powers, gain their independence
• James Reaney publishes The Killdeer
• St.-John Perse publishes Chronique
• St.-John Perse receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
• Wendell Berry publishes Nathan Coulter
• Mario Benedetti publishes La tregua
• James Finn Garner is born
• Arundhati Roy is born
• Writing under the pseudonym “Abram Tertz,” Andrei Sinyavsky publishes Sudidyot (The Trial Begins)
• Phyllis McGinley publishes Times Three: Selected Verse from Three Decades with Seventy New Poems
• Theodore Sturgeon publishes Venus plus X
• H.D. publishes Bid Me to Live (A Madrigal)
• John Betjeman publishes Summoned by Bells
• Brian Moore publishes The Luck of Ginger Coffey
• Alan Bennett publishes Beyond the Fringe
• John Barth publishes The Sot-Weed Factor
• Yves Theriault publishes Ashini
• Josephine Miles publishes Poems, 1930-1960
• Margaret Avison publishes Winter Sun
• Margaret Avison receives Governor General’s Literary Award in poetry
• Claude Simon publishes La Route des Flandres (The Flanders Road)
• W. D. Snodgrass receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Heart’s Needle
• Albert Camus dies (January 4)
• Kaye Gibbons is born (May 5)
• Audrey Wurdemann dies (May 18)
• Mark Mathabane is born (October 18)
• Richard Wright dies (November 25)
• Zora Neale Hurston dies (January 28)
• Tad Mosel’s drama All the Way Home is first performed (November 30)
• Harold Lenoir Davis dies (October 31)