Calendar of Literary Facts
Calendar of Literary Facts
1967
- Siegfried Sassoon dies
- Piers Anthony publishes Chthon
- Miguel Angel Asturias receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- S. E. Hinton publishes The Outsiders
- Robert Lipsyte publishes The Contender
- Bernard Malamud receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Fixer
- Ira Levin publishes Rosemary’s Baby
- Dorothy Parker dies
- John Masefield dies
- Haki R. Madhubuti publishes Think Black
- Judith Barnard publishes The Past and Present of Solomon Sorge
- Chaim Potok publishes The Chosen
- Reinaldo Arenas publishes Celestino antes del albe
- Alex La Guma publishes The Stone Country
- Alan Garner publishes The Owl Service
- William Styron publishes The Confessions of Nat Turner
- Jean Toomer dies
- Floyd Salas publishes Tattoo the Wicked Cross
- Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is produced
- Sam Shepard receives Obie Award for La Turista
- Derek Walcott publishes Dream on Monkey Mountain
- Carl Sandburg dies
- Anthony Hecht publishes The Hard Hours
- Margaret Laurence receives the Governor General’s Literary Award in fiction for A Jest of God
- Donald Barthelme publishes Snow White
- James A. Houston publishes The White Archer: An Eskimo Legend
- Richard Brautigan publishes Trout Fishing in America
- G. Cabrera Infante publishes Tres tristes tigres
- Richard Brautigan publishes In Watermelon Sugar
- Marshall McLuhan publishes The Medium Is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects
- Paulo Freire publishes Educacao como pratica da liberdade (“Education and the Practice of Freedom”)
- Frank Conroy publishes Stop-Time
- Jhumpa Lahiri is born
- Martin Flavin dies
- Margaret Ayer Barnes dies
- Anne Sexton receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Live or Die
- Antony Hewish and Jocelyn Bell discover pulsars
- Jacques Derrida publishes Of Grammatology and Writing and Difference
- Israeli forces defeat several Arab countries in the Six-Day War, occupying the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, the Golan Heights, and historic Jerusalem
- Race riots explode in Detroit, Michigan and Newark, New Jersey
- Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the first human heart transplant
- Nuclear technicians test China’s first hydrogen bomb
- Howard Sackler’s drama The Great White Hope is first performed
- The American youth counterculture proclaims the “Summer of Love” in San Francisco
- Juan Bosch publishes El pentagonismo: Sustituto del imperialismo (Pentagonism: A Substitute for Imperialism)
- Erma Bombeck publishes At Wit’s End
- Elmer Rice dies
- Alden Nowlan receives the Governor General’s Literary Award in poetry for Bread, Wine and Salt
- Robert Bly publishes The Light Around the Body
- Christopher Okigbo dies
- Alden Nowlan publishes Bread, Wine and Salt
- Eavan Boland publishes New Territory
- Muckraking writer Upton Sinclair joins U.S. President Lyndon Johnson at the signing into law of the Wholesome Meat Act, which was enacted to complete legislation inspired by Sinclair’s 1906 novel The Jungle
- Joseph Kesselring dies (November 5)
- “The City on the Edge of Forever,” a memorable screenplay written by Harlan Ellison, is aired as an episode on the television series Star Trek (April 6)
- Ernesto (Che) Guevara dies (October 8)
- Joe Orton dies (August 9)
- Marcel (Andre) Ayme dies (October 14)
- Langston Hughes dies (May 22)
- Carson McCullers dies (September 29)
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