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See also: 1957 in literature, other events of 1958, 1959 in literature, list of years in literature.

Table of contents 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• First volume of The Civil War[?] by Shelby Foote[?] is published.

• The Caretaker[?] , a drama by Harold Pinter is published.

New Books

• The Affluent Society[?] - John Kenneth Galbraith
• Anatomy of a Murder - Robert Traver[?]
• Around the World with Auntie Mame[?] - Patrick Dennis[?]
• Balthazar[?] - Lawrence Durrell
• Bird of Fire[?] - Helen White[?]
• Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
• Candy[?] - Maxwell Kenton[?]
• Doctor No[?] - Ian Fleming
• The Enemy Camp[?] - Jerome Weidman[?]
• A Fly Went By[?] - Mike McClintock[?]
• From the Terrace[?] - John O'Hara
• Ice Palace[?] - Edna Ferber
• The Leopard[?] - Giusseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa[?]
• Masters of Deceit[?] - J. Edgar Hoover
• Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene
• Playback[?] - Raymond Chandler
• Victorine[?] - Frances Parkinson Keyes[?]
• The Winthrop Woman[?] - Anya Seton
• Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories[?] - Dr. Seuss
• Young Caesar[?] - Rex Warner[?]

Births

Deaths

• February 4 - Henry Kuttner[?], science fiction author
• May 5 - James Branch Cabell, fantasy fiction author

Awards

• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Harold Keith[?], Rifles for Watie
• Nobel Prize for literature: Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: 58 Ketti Frings[?], Look Homeward, Angel
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: James Agee[?] - A Death In The Family
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Penn Warren: Promises: Poems 1954-1956