Calendar of Literary Facts

• Calendar of Literary Facts

Calendar of Literary Facts

1966

• J. K. Rowling is born
• James Clavell publishes Tai-Pan
• Norman MacCaig publishes Surroundings
• José Lezama Lima publishes Paradiso
• Daniel Keyes publishes Flowers for Algernon
• Seamus Heaney publishes Death of a Naturalist
• Robert Coover publishes The Origin of the Brunists
• Susan Sontag publishes Against Interpretation, and Other Essays
• Anaïs Nin publishes The Diary of Anaïs Nin
• Jean Rhys publishes Wide Sargasso Sea
• Katherine Anne Porter receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
• Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple is produced
• Dudley Randall publishes Poem Counterpoem
• Ron Milner publishes Who’s Got His Own
• Richard Eberhart receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Selected Poems, 1930-1965
• The Nobel Prize for Literature was divided equally between S. Y. Agnon and Nelly Sachs
• Huey Newton and Bobby Seale found the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California
• Wilhelm Roepke dies
• The Cultural Revolution takes place in China
• The unmanned Soviet spacecraft Luna 9 achieves a soft landing on the moon
• The U.S. Congress passes the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which allows public access to previously classified government documents
• Shusaku Endo publishes Chinmoku (Silence)
• Luisa Valenzuela publishes Hay que sonreir
• George Starbuck publishes White Paper
• Mario Vargas Llosa publishes La casa verde (The Green House)
• Sam Shepard receives Obie Awards for best plays of the Off-Broadway season for Chicago, Icarus’s Mother, and Red Cross
• Mina Loy dies
• Bernard Malamud publishes The Fixer
• Thomas Pynchon publishes The Crying of Lot 49
• René Char publishes Retour amont
• Robert Bolt publishes his screenplay of Boris Pasternak’s novel Doctor Zhivago
• Truman Capote publishes In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
• Mikhail Bulgakov’s Master i Margarita (The Master and Margarita) is published
• Lilian Jackson Braun publishes The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
• Basil Bunting publishes Briggflatts: An Autobiography
• Jacques Maritain publishes Le Paysan de la Garenne (The Peasant of the Garonne)
• Anne Sexton publishes Live or Die
• Russel Crouse dies
• Michel Foucault publishes Les Mots el les choses: Une archeologie des sciences humanes (The Order of Things: An Archeology of the Human Sciences)
• Damon Knight establishes the annual Orbit anthology of science fiction
• Alice Childress publishes Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White
• Marie-Claire Blais publishes A Season in the Life of Emmanuel
• Dee Brown publishes The Year of the Century: 1876
• Samuel R. Delany publishes Babel-17
• Melvin B. Tolson dies
• Isaac Bashevis Singer publishes Enemis: A Love Story
• Frank O’Hara dies
• Sherman Alexie is born
• Louise Bennett publishes Jamaica Labrish
• Anna Akhmatova dies
• Larry McMurtry publishes The Last Picture Show
• Claribel Alegría publishes Cenizas de Izalco (Ashes of Izalco)
• Chinua Achebe publishes A Man of the People
• Evelyn Waugh dies (April 10)
• André Breton dies (September 28)
• Truman Capote throws a landmark party, his Black-and-White Masked Ball, at New York’s Plaza Hotel, inviting a who’s-who of personages from the world of entertainment, politics, literature, and art (November 28)
• J. California Cooper is born (October 28)
• Margery Allingham dies (June 30)