| Nobel Prize in Literature | Michail Aleksandrovich Shalokhov |
| Pulitzer Prize for Drama | Frank D. Gilroy, The Subject Was Roses |
| Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | Shirley Ann Grau, The Keepers of the House |
| Pulitzer Prize for Poetry | John Berryman, 77 Dream Songs |
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New Books |
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Alex
Haley & Malcolm X Dune, Frank Herbert Georgy Girl, Margaret Forster The Magus, John Fowles The Man with the Golden Arm, Ian Fleming The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosinski The Source, James A. Michener At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Peter Matthiessen Unsafe at Any Speed, Ralph Nadar Ariel, The Uncollected Poems, Sylvia Plath Thirteen Stories, Eudora Welty |
| Births |
(July 31) J.K. Rowling (December 31) Nicholas Sparks |
| Deaths |
T.S. Eliot Lorraine Hansberry William Somerset Maugham |
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Information compiled from www.wikipedia.com; www.1960sflashback.com; www.infoplease.com. |
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