1954 IN LITERATURE

The year '1954 in literature' involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Events

★ Jack Kerouac reads Dwight Goddard's ''A Buddhist Bible'', which will influence him greatly.

★ John Updike graduates from Harvard with a thesis on George Herbert.

★ Lawrence Quincy Mumford becomes Librarian of Congress.

New books

★ Kingsley Amis - ''Lucky Jim''

★ Poul Anderson - ''The Broken Sword''

★ Isaac Asimov - ''The Caves of Steel''

★ Hamilton Basso - ''The View from Pompey's Head''

★ Simone de Beauvoir - ''The Mandarins''

★ Pierre Boulle - ''The Bridge on the River Kwai'' (''Le pont de la rivière Kwai'')

★ Taylor Caldwell - ''Never Victorious, Never Defeated''

★ Robertson Davies - ''Leaven of Malice''

★ Daphne du Maurier - ''Mary Anne''

★ Ian Fleming - ''Live and Let Die''

★ William Golding - ''Lord of the Flies''

★ Hergé - ''Explorers on the Moon''

★ Mac Hyman - ''No Time for Sergeants''

★ Frances Parkinson Keyes - ''The Royal Box''

★ C. S. Lewis - ''The Horse and His Boy''

★ Kamala Markandaya - ''Nectar in a Sieve''

★ Richard Matheson - ''I Am Legend''

★ John Metcalfe - ''The Feasting Dead''

★ James A. Michener - ''Sayonara''

★ Alberto Moravia - ''Il disprezzo'' (''A Ghost at Noon'')

★ Iris Murdoch - ''Under the Net''

★ J. B. Priestley - ''The Magicians''

★ Marcel Proust - ''Jean Sauteuil'' (posthumously published)

★ Pauline Réage - ''Histoire d'O'' (''Story of O'')

★ Mordecai Richler - ''The Acrobats''

★ Anya Seton - ''Katherine''

★ Dr. Seuss - ''Horton Hears a Who!''

★ John Steinbeck - ''Sweet Thursday''

★ Irving Stone - ''Love Is Eternal''

★ Edward Streeter - ''Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation''

★ Morton Thompson - ''Not as a Stranger''

★ J. R. R. Tolkien

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★ ''The Lord of the Rings'' : ''The Fellowship of the Ring''

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★ ''The Lord of the Rings'' : ''The Two Towers''

★ Frank Yerby - ''Benton's Row''

New drama

★ Brendan Behan - ''The Quare Fellow''

★ Terence Rattigan - ''Separate Tables''

★ Dylan Thomas - ''Under Milk Wood''

★ Thornton Wilder - ''The Matchmaker''

Non-fiction

★ L. Sprague de Camp - ''Lost Continents''

★ Albert Einstein - ''Ideas and Opinions''

★ Aldous Huxley - ''The Doors of Perception''

★ Arthur Koestler - ''The Invisible Writing: The Second Volume Of An Autobiography, 1932-40''

★ Mervyn Peake - ''Figures of Speech''

Births

★ January 29 - Oprah Winfrey, actress, talk show host, producer, publisher

★ June 28 - A. A. Gill, journalist and critic

★ 'November' - Christopher Pike, children's author

★ Esther Delisle, Quebec author & historian

Deaths

★ January 1 - Duff Cooper (1st Viscount Norwich), poet, biographer and politician

★ January 25 - M. N. Roy, philosopher and politician

★ March 28 - Francis Brett Young, novelist and poet

★ April 8

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★ Juan Álvarez, historian

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★ Winnifred Eaton, Canadian author

★ April 19 - Russell Davenport, journalist and publisher

★ May 3 - Earnest Hooton, popular writer on anthropology

★ August 3 - Colette, French novelist

★ September 19 - Miles Franklin, novelist

★ September 29 - W. J. Gruffydd, editor of ''Y Llenor (Literature)''

★ December 6 - Lucien Tesnière, grammarian

Awards

★ Newbery Medal for children's literature: Joseph Krumgold, ''And Now Miguel''

★ Nobel Prize for Literature: Ernest Miller Hemingway

★ Premio Nadal: Francisco Alcántara, ''La muerte sienta bien a Villalobos''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Drama: John Patrick, ''The Teahouse of the August Moon''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: ''no award given''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Theodore Roethke: ''The Waking''

★ King's Gold Medal for Poetry: Ralph Hodgson