1962 in literature - Definition and Overview

See also: 1961 in literature, other events of 1962, 1963 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov is published.

New Books

• Apples of Gold - Jo Petty
• The Changeling - Thomas Middleton
• Dearly Beloved - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• The Guns of August - Barbara Tuchman
• The Kindly Ones - Anthony Powell
• King Rat - James Clavell
• Lilies of the Field - William Barrett
• The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
• Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
• A Murder of Quality - John le Carré
• My Life in Court - Louis Nizer
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
• Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
• The Prize - Irving Wallace
• A Prologue To Love - Taylor Caldwell
• Reinhart in Love - Thomas Berger
• The Reivers - William Faulkner
• Seven Days in May - Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II
• Sex and the Single Girl - Helen Gurley Brown
• A Shade of Difference - Allen Drury
• Ship of Fools - Katherine Anne Porter
• Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
• The Spy Who Loved Me - Ian Fleming
• Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
• The Thin Red Line - James Jones
• - John Steinbeck
• Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor
• A Wrinkle in Time -- Madeleine L'Engle
• Youngblood Hawke - Herman Wouk

Births

• October 19 - Tracy Chevalier, author

Deaths

• July 6 - William Faulkner, American novelist
• August 9 - Hermann Hesse, author

Awards

• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth George Speare, The Bronze Bow
• Nobel Prize for literature - John Steinbeck
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Edwin O'Connor - The Edge of Sadness
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Alan Dugan: Poems