Calendar of Literary Facts
1965
- Damon Knight establishes the Science Fiction Writers of America
- Black civil-rights protesters are attacked by a Alabama state troopers in Selma, Alabama
- Witold Gombrowicz publishes Kosmos (Cosmos)
- A. W. Purdy publishes The Cariboo Horses
- Frank Herbert publishes Dune
- William Demby publishes The Catacombs
- John Berryman receives Pulitzer Prize for 77 Dream Songs
- T. S. Eliot dies
- The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter is published
- A race riot erupts in Watts, a section of Los Angeles, California
- Rhodesia declares its independence from the United Kingdom
- Singapore becomes an independent state
- Joseph Mitchell publishes Joe Gould’s Secret
- T. S. Stribling dies
- Mikhail Sholokhov receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Frank d. Gilroy receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for The Subject Was Roses
- Shirley Ann Grau receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Keepers of the House
- Tensions between India and Pakistan escalate into open war between the two countries
- A military coup erupts in Indonesia against the government of Sukarno
- Sylvia Plath’s Ariel is published
- Edward Bond publishes Saved
- Robert Lowell receives an Obie Award for best new play, for The Old Glory
- Cormac McCarthy publishes The Orchard Keeper
- Wole Soyinka publishes The Interpreters
- Sam Shepard publishes Chicago
- Nelson Mandela’s No Easy Walk to Freedom is published
- Sembene Ousmane publishes Vehi-Ciosane; ou, Blanche-genese, suivi du Mandat
- Lewis Nkosi publishes Home and Exile and Other Selections
- W. Somerset Maugham dies
- Agatha Christie publishes Ten Little Niggers (titled Ten Little Indians in the American edition)
- Muriel Spark publishes The Mandelbaum Gate
- Claude Brown publishes Manchild in the Promised Land
- Peter Matthiessen publishes At Play in the Fields of the Lord
- Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming is produced
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X is published
- Richard Eberhart publishes Selected Poems, 1930-1965
- Carlos Drummond de Andrade publishes In the Middle of the Road: Selected Poems
- Shirley Jackson dies (August 8)
- Jacques Audiberti dies (July 10)
- Lorraine Hansberry dies (January 12)
- Randall Jarrell dies (October 14)
- Jack Spicer dies (August 17)
- Malcolm Little (“Malcolm X”) dies (February 21)
- Sir Winston Churchill dies (January 24)
