1960 in literature

none 1960 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1960. Events thumb|right|200px|1961 post-Oscars theatrical poster for Spartacus, illustrated by Reynold Brown February–October – Astounding magazine is renamed Analog. Spring – August Derleth launches the poetry magazine Hawk and Whippoorwill in the United States. March 22 – Joan Henry's play Look on Tempests is premièred at the Comedy Theatre in London's West End, as the first play dealing openly with homosexuality to be passed for performance by the Lord Chamberlain in Britain.Not in Front of the Audience: Homosexuality on stage Nicholas De Jongh https://archive.org/details/notinfrontofaudi00dejo registration 119–122 1992 Routledge 0-415-03362-4Pouteau Jacques London Sees Play of Type Formerly Banned https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/446294852.html?dids=446294852:446294852&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Mar+25%2C+1960&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=London+Sees+Play+of+Type+Formerly+Banned&pqatl=google Los Angeles Times 25 March 1960 2010-10-30 2012-01-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20120125120318/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/446294852.html?dids=446294852:446294852&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Mar+25%2C+1960&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=London+Sees+Play+of+Type+Formerly+Banned&pqatl=google dead April 27 – Harold Pinter's play The Caretaker is premièred at the Arts Theatre Club in London's West End, transferring to the Duchess Theatre the following month, where it runs for 444 performances before departing from London for Broadway, Pinter's first significant commercial success.Overview: The Caretaker Drama for Students 7 2000 Gale Literature Resource Center Detroit http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CH1430004938&v=2.1&u=iuclassb&it=r&p=LitRC&sw=w Galens, David M. 2012-09-04http://www.haroldpinter.org/plays/plays_caretaker.shtml The Caretaker – Première HaroldPinter.org 2009-05-28 Alan Bates and Donald Pleasence star in the original production. July 11 – Harper Lee's Southern Gothic Bildungsroman To Kill a Mockingbird is published in the United States. She completes no later novel before her death in 2016. August 12 – Green Eggs and Ham, by Dr. Seuss, is published in the United States; 40 years on it will be the fourth-best selling English-language children's hardcover book yet written.http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA186995.html All-Time Bestselling Children's Books 2001-12-17 Publishers Weekly https://web.archive.org/web/20051225125934/http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA186995.html 2005-12-25 September 5 – The Welsh poet Waldo Williams is imprisoned for six weeks for non-payment of income tax (a protest against defence spending).Welsh Nationalist Sent to Prison The Times London 1960-09-06 6 54869 October 3 – The Lilly Library is opened on the campus of Indiana University Bloomington, based on the collections of Josiah K. Lilly Jr. October 6 and December 16 – Dalton Trumbo, one of the Hollywood Ten, receives full screenwriting credit for his work on the films Spartacus and Exodus, released in the United States on these dates. The actor Kirk Douglas publicly announces that Trumbo was the screenwriter of Spartacus, and President John F. Kennedy crosses American Legion picket lines to view the film, helping to end blacklisting.Kennedy Attends Movie in Capital https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/02/05/118020108.pdf New York Times February 4, 1961 January 20, 2012The Fronts Come Forward https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-11-27-9204180562-story.html 2022-07-10 Chicago Tribune November 27, 1992 c. October – Vasily Grossman submits his novel Life and Fate (Жизнь и судьба) for publication, resulting in confiscation of the manuscript and all related material by the KGB in the Soviet Union.Chandler, Robert (1985). Introduction to Life and Fate. New York Review of Books Classics. p. xv. November – Rita Rait-Kovaleva's Russian translation of The Catcher in the Rye is published in the Soviet literary magazine Inostrannaya Literatura as Над пропастью во ржи ("Over the Abyss in Rye").https://www.rferl.org/a/Salingers_Catcher_In_The_Rye_Resonated_Behind_Iron_Curtain_As_Well/1943025.html Salinger's 'Catcher In The Rye' Resonated Behind Iron Curtain As Well Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 2015-06-18 November 2 – R v Penguin Books Ltd: Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity for publishing Lady Chatterley's Lover in the United Kingdom.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 November 8 – Richard Wright delivers a polemical lecture, "The Situation of the Black Artist and Intellectual in the United States", to students and members of the American Church in Paris, a few weeks before his death in the city from heart attack aged 52.Cedric J. Robinson Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition https://books.google.com/books?id=Y30zsnRdFlIC&pg=PA405 12 October 2005 Univ of North Carolina Press 978-0-8078-7612-1 405 November 10 – Lady Chatterley's Lover sells 200,000 copies in one day following its publication in the U.K. since being banned in 1928.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/10/newsid_2965000/2965194.stm Lady Chatterley's Lover sold out BBC On This Day 2008-02-11 1960-11-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307131830/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/10/newsid_2965000/2965194.stm 2008-03-07 live November 17 – Michael Foot is re-elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom and relinquishes the editorship of Tribune. November 19 – American novelist Norman Mailer stabs his wife, the artist Adele Morales.Norman Mailer Arrested in Stabbing of Wife at a Party https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/07/13/reviews/mailer-stabbing.html The New York Times 1960-11-22 2013-10-31 November 24 – Raymond Queneau founds Oulipo in France. unknown dates Dutch mathematician Hans Freudenthal invents the artificial language Lincos, intended for communication with extraterrestrial intelligence.Semiotica https://books.google.com/books?id=RKAKAQAAMAAJ 1995 Mouton Publishers 84 Francophone African scholar Djibril Tamsir Niane publishes the novelization Soundjata, ou l'Epopée du Manding in Paris, the first extended transcription of the 13th-century Epic of Sundiata from Mandinka oral tradition and its first translation into a Western language.Phyllis M. Martin Patrick O'Meara Africa https://books.google.com/books?id=OAGPMAExRz8C&pg=PA310 1995 Indiana University Press 0-253-20984-6 310 New books Fiction Chinua Achebe – No Longer at Ease Kingsley Amis – Take a Girl Like You Poul Anderson – The High Crusade Lynne Reid Banks – The L-Shaped Room Stan Barstow – A Kind of Loving John Barth – The Sot-Weed Factor H. E. Bates – When the Green Woods Laugh Charles Beaumont – Night Ride and Other Journeys (short story collection) Robert Bloch – Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares (short story collection) Anita Rowe Block – Necessary Endhttps://archive.org/details/per_st-louis-post-dispatch_1960-03-26_82_85/mode/2up?q=%22Anita+Rowe+Block%22 Between Book Ends: Immovable Cardiac and Irresistible Ambition Robert Friedman St. Louis Post-Dispatch March 26, 1960 4A Algis Budrys – Rogue MoonGary Westfahl The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders https://books.google.com/books?id=3JXnz9x9sO4C&pg=PA457 2005 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-32952-4 457 Anthony Burgess The Doctor is Sick The Right to an Answer Morley Callaghan – The Many Colored Coat John Dickson Carr – In Spite of Thunder Carlo Cassola – Bébo's Girl (La ragazza di Bube) Henry Cecil – Alibi for a Judge Louis-Ferdinand Céline – North (Nord) Agatha Christie – The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (short story collection) Roald Dahl – Kiss Kiss (short story collection) L. Sprague de Camp The Bronze God of Rhodes The Glory That Was L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt – Wall of Serpents Carmen de Icaza – The House Across the Street (La casa de enfrente) Philip K. Dick Dr. Futurity Vulcan's Hammer E. L. Doctorow – Welcome to Hard Times Lawrence Durrell – Clea (final volume of The Alexandria Quartet, begun 1957) Henry Farrell – What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Ian Fleming – For Your Eyes Only (James Bond short story collection) Sarah Gainham – The Silent Hostage Richard Gordon – Doctor in Clover Graham Greene – A Burnt-Out Case Arthur Hailey – In High Places Donald Hamilton – Death of a Citizen Wilson Harris – Palace of the Peacock James Leo Herlihy – All Fall Down Hammond Innes – The Doomed Oasis Michael Innes – The New Sonia Wayward Greye La Spina – Invaders from the Dark Jean Lartéguy – Les Centurions Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird Clarice Lispector – Family Ties (Laços de família) (short story collection) David Lodge – The Picturegoers Ngaio Marsh – False Scent John Masters – The Venus of Konpara Richard Matheson – The Beardless Warriors Judith Merrill – The Tomorrow People Barrett David V. David V. Barrett Obituary: Judith Merril The Independent 1997-09-19 Gladys Mitchell – Say It with Flowers Walter M. Miller – A Canticle for Leibowitz Cowart David Wyner Thomas L. Miller Bio-Bibliography 1981 Dictionary of Literary Biography 8: Twentieth-Century American Science-Fiction Writers 19–30 The Gale Group Nancy Mitford – Don't Tell Alfred Alberto Moravia – La noia (The Empty Canvas) Edna O'Brien – The Country Girls Flannery O'Connor – The Violent Bear It Away Scott O'Dell – Island of the Blue Dolphins Frederik Pohl – Drunkard's Walk Anthony Powell – Casanova's Chinese Restaurant James H. Schmitz – Agent of Vega Nevil Shute (died January 2) – Trustee from the Toolroom Clark Ashton Smith – The Abominations of Yondo Muriel Spark – The Ballad of Peckham Rye Alan Sillitoe – The General David Storey – This Sporting LifeKeating Frank Frank Keating (journalist) 2010-12-02 https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2010/dec/01/this-sporting-life-david-storey David Storey's yarn hits 50 and is still top of the league The Guardian 2016-06-14 Rex Stout Three at Wolfe's DoorGuy M. Townsend Rex Stout: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography 1980 Garland Publishing 84 0-8240-9479-4 Too Many Clients William Styron – Set This House on Fire Julian Symons – The Progress of a Crime John Updike – Rabbit, Run Irving Wallace – The Chapman Report John Edward Williams – Butcher's Crossing Raymond Williams – Border Country John Wyndham – Trouble with Lichen Children and young people Jean Adamson – Monday Book (first in the Topsy and Tim series) Joan Aiken – The Kingdom and The CaveHahn Daniel The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature 2015 Oxford. University Press 9780198715542 10 2nd Rev. W. Awdry – The Twin Engines (fifteenth in The Railway Series) Hans Baumann – Ich zog mit Hannibal (I Marched with Hannibal, 1961) Sheila Burnford – The Incredible Journey P. D. Eastman – Are You My Mother? Alan Garner – The Weirdstone of Brisingamen Jean Craighead George – My Side of the Mountain Scott O'Dell – Island of the Blue Dolphins Georges Prosper Remi (as Hergé) – Tintin au Tibet (book publication) Dr. Seuss Green Eggs and Ham One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Barbara Sleigh – The Kingdom of Carbonel Drama Edward Albee – The Death of Bessie Smith and The Sandbox (first performances) Samuel Beckett – The Old Tune (first broadcast) Robert Bolt – A Man for All Seasons (stage version) and The Tiger and the Horse Marc Camoletti – Boeing-Boeing Henry Cecil and William Saroyan – Settled Out of Court Agatha Christie – Go Back for Murder Noël Coward – Waiting in the Wings Beverley Cross – Strip the Willow Witold Gombrowicz – The Marriage (Ślub, first performance) Lillian Hellman – Toys in the Attic Eugène Ionesco – Rhinocéros Ira Levin – Critic's Choice Stephen Lewis and Theatre Workshop – Sparrers Can't Sing Bruce Mason – The End of the Golden Weather Tad Mosel – All the Way Home Harold Pinter The Caretaker (first performed and published) The Room (first professional performance) A Night Out (first broadcast) Terence Rattigan – Ross Nelson Rodrigues – Beijo no Asfalto (The Asphalt Kiss) Wole Soyinka – A Dance of the Forests Gore Vidal – The Best Man Maruxa Vilalta – es Los disorientados (The Disoriented Ones) Orson Welles (adaptation) – Chimes at MidnightCallow Simon Orson Welles, Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu Viking Penguin New York 1996 0-670-86722-5 https://archive.org/details/orsonwellesvolum00simo 443 Tennessee Williams – Period of Adjustment Poetry 1960 in poetry Douglas Livingstone – The Skull in the Mud Sylvia Plath – The Colossus and Other Poems Alan Sillitoe – The Rats and other poems Non-fiction Joy Adamson – Born FreeCatharine M. C. Haines International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950 Santa Barbara ABC-CLIO 2001 978-1-57607-090-1 3 https://books.google.com/books?id=HftdjMNDvwIC Kingsley Amis – New Maps of Hell Philippe Ariès – Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life (L'Enfant et la vie familiale sous l'Ancien Régime) Peg Bracken – The I Hate to Cook Book Albert Camus (died January 4) – Resistance, Rebellion, and Death (selected essays) Jean-Paul Desbiens – Les Insolences du Frère Untel (The Insolences of Brother Anonymous) Hans-Georg Gadamer – Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode) John Howard Griffin – Black Like Me Helen Keller – Light in my Darkness Arthur Koestler – The Lotus and the Robot Jessica Mitford – Hons and Rebels A. S. Neill – Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier – The Morning of the Magicians (Le Matin des magiciens) R. C. Majumdar – An Advanced History of India Jean-Paul Sartre – Critique of Dialectical Reason (Critique de la raison dialectique) William L. Shirer – The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich H. H. Smythe and M. M. Smythe – The New Nigerian Elite W. T. Stace – The Teachings of the Mystics Elie Wiesel – Night (La Nuit, 1958) Births January 18 – Mark Rylance, English actor and theatre directorMark Rylance Virginia Gorlinski https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Rylance Britannica.com 2 August 2025 13 August 2025 January 23 – André Verbart, Dutch poet January 28 – Robert von Dassanowsky, Austrian-American historian and academic January 31 – Grant Morrison, Scottish comic-book and graphic-novel scriptwriter February 19 – Helen Fielding, English novelist and screenwriter March 8 – Jeffrey Eugenides, American fiction writer April 28 – Ian Rankin, Scottish crime novelist April 29 – Andrew Miller, English novelist May 4 – Kate Saunders, English author and children's writer May 21 – John O'Brien, American novelist (died 1994) May 24 – Eric Brown, British science fiction writer (died 2023) June 2 – Julie Myerson, English novelist and columnist July 13 – Ian Hislop, Welsh-born satirist August 4 – Tim Winton, Australian novelist October 2 – Joe Sacco, Maltese-born graphic author October 18 – Hồ Anh Thái, Vietnamese author November 10 – Neil Gaiman, English author December 10 – Kenneth Branagh, Northern Irish actor and screenwriter December 14 – Wolf Haas, Austrian writer unknown dates Malcolm Pryce, Anglo-Welsh detective novelist Alexis Stamatis, Greek novelist, playwright and poetAlexis Stamatis Bar Flaubert https://books.google.com/books?id=5GViAAAAMAAJ 2007 Arcadia 978-1-900850-57-5 D. J. Taylor, English literary critic and biographer Deaths January 4 – Albert Camus, French Pied-Noir novelist (car accident, born 1913) January 9 – Elsie J. Oxenham (Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley), English girls' story writer (born 1880) January 12 – Nevil Shute, English-born novelist (stroke, born 1899) January 14 – Ralph Chubb, English poet, printer and artist (born 1892) January 28 – Zora Neale Hurston, African-American anthropologist and author (born 1891)Walters Tim 2020-02-25 Black History Month: Zora Neale Hurston died alone, her belongings almost burned. Now there is a festival in her name. https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2020/02/25/black-history-month-zora-neale-hurston-died-alone-belongings-almost-burned-there-festival-her-name/1643050007/ 2023-01-20 The Palm Beach Post January 2, 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230102101720/https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2020/02/25/black-history-month-zora-neale-hurston-died-alone-belongings-almost-burned-there-festival-her-name/1643050007/ dead March 5 – Dornford Yates (Cecil William Mercer), English novelist and writer (born 1885) April 5 – Peter Llewelyn Davies, English publisher, inspiration for Peter Pan (suicide, born 1897) May 30 – Boris Pasternak, Russian novelist, poet and translator (born 1890) July 27 Leonora Eyles, English feminist writer and novelist (born 1889) Ethel Lilian Voynich, Anglo-Irish novelist and composer (born 1864) July 28 – Kassian Bogatyrets, Rusyn priest, politician and historian (born 1868) August 19 – Frances Cornford, English poet (born 1886) August 29 – Vicki Baum, Austrian-born novelist writing in German and English (born 1888) October 19 – Hjalmar Dahl, Finnish journalist, translator and writer (born 1891)Hjalmar Dahl – Svenskt översättarlexikon (in Swedish) October 31 – H. L. Davis, American fiction writer and poet (born 1894)http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2009/12/rediscovering_hl_davis.html Rediscovering H. L. Davis Baker Jeff December 2, 2009 The Oregonian December 4, 2009 November 20 – Ya'akov Cohen, Russian-born Israeli poet (born 1881) November 28 – Richard Wright, African-American novelist and poet (born 1908) December 26 – Tetsuro Watsuji (和辻 哲郎), Japanese philosopher and historian of ideas (born 1889) Awards American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Criticism: E. B. White Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Ian Wolfran Cornwall, The Making of ManLibrary Association Proceedings, Papers and Summaries of Discussions at the ... Conference https://books.google.com/books?id=-jvpAAAAMAAJ 1956 8 Eric Gregory Award: Christopher Levenson Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: Victor Gollancz James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Rex Warner, Imperial Caesar James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Canon Adam Fox, The Life of Dean Inge Kate Greenaway Medal: Gerald Rose, Old Winkle and the seagulls Miles Franklin Award: Elizabeth O'Conner, The Irishman Newbery Medal for children's literature: Joseph Krumgold, Onion John Nobel Prize in Literature: Saint-John Perse Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Jerome Weidman, George Abbott for book, Jerry Bock for music, and Sheldon Harnick for lyrics, Fiorello! Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Allen Drury, Advise and Consent Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: W. D. Snodgrass, Heart's Needle Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: John Betjeman References 30em External links Popular Books of 1960 at Goodreads Published 1960 Books at Goodreads 1960 Books at Goodreads