Literary Criticism:
- Of This Time, Of That Place and Other Stories, Lionel Trilling (Short Story Criticism)
- Trilling, Lionel (Vol. 9) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
- Trilling, Lionel (Vol. 24) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
- Trilling, Lionel (Vol. 11) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
Encyclopedia:
- Trilling, Lionel (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
- Trilling, Lionel (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)
- The Liberal Imagination (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)
Calendar of Literary Facts:
- Lionel Trilling publishes Matthew Arnold, a critical study
- Lionel Trilling is born
- Lionel Trilling dies
- Lionel Trilling publishes his first essay collection, The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society
- Commentary, a monthly magazine of Jewish cultural advancement, begins publication; notable early contributors include Norman Mailer, Lionel Trilling, and Bernard Malamud
