1963 in literature

1963 in literature

See also: 1962 in literature, other events of 1963, 1964 in literature, list of years in literature.

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

First United States printing of John Cleland's 1749 novel, Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure). The book is banned for obscenity, triggering a court case by its publisher.

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Benefactor[?] - Susan Sontag[?]
Caravans[?] - James A. Michener
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
City of Night[?] - John Rechy[?]
The Collector - John Fowles
Elizabeth Appleton[?] - John O'Hara
John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure - John Cleland
The Glass-Blowers[?] - Daphne Du Maurier
Gradmother and the Priests[?] - Taylor Caldwell
The Group[?] - Mary McCarthy[?]
Happiness Is a Warm Puppy[?] - Charles M. Schulz
The Making of the English Working Class[?] - E. P. Thompson
On Her Majesty's Secret Service[?] - Ian Fleming
Planet of the Apes (La Planète des Singes) - Pierre Boulle
The Rise of the West[?] - William H. McNeill[?]
The Sand Pebbles - Richard McKenna[?]
Second Skin[?] - John Hawkes[?]
The Shoes of the Fisherman[?] - Morris West[?]
Six Easy Pieces[?] - Richard P. Feynman
The Spy who Came in from the Cold[?] - John le Carré
That Summer in Paris[?] - Morley Callaghan

June 25 - Yann Martel, author
Alice Sebold[?], author

January 29 - Robert Frost, poet
February 11 - Sylvia Plath, poet/novelist.
March 4 - William Carlos Williams, writer
August 27 - W. E. B. Du Bois, writer/civil rights
November 22 - Aldous Huxley, novelist
November 22 - C.S. Lewis - novelist, Christian apologist, and English professor
Theodore Roethke - American poet

Newberry Medal for children's literature: Madeline L'Engle[?], A Wrinkle in Time
Nobel Prize for literature - Giorgos Seferis
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: William Faulkner - The Reivers
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William Carlos Williams: Pictures from Breughel