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Calendar of Literary Facts
1969
- The Stonewall revolt in New York City marks the beginning of the American gay liberation movement
- C. K. Williams publishes Lies
- Kurt Vonnegut publishes Slaughterhouse-Five
- John Fowles publishes The French Lieutenant’s Woman
- Lucille Clifton publishes Good Times: Poems
- H. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin) publishes Die Nigger Die!
- Marvin Bell publishes A Probable Volume of Dreams
- John Guare receives an Obie Award as New York Drama Critics Most Promising Playwright for Cop-Out
- Barry Beckham publishes My Main Mother
- Ivy Compton-Burnett dies
- Lonne Elder III publishes Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
- Robert Silverberg publishes Nightwings
- Jules Feiffer receives an Obie Award for Little Murders
- Jean Stafford publishes her Collected Stories
- George Oppen receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Of Being Numerous
- Howard Sackler receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for The Great White Hope
- Floyd Dell dies
- The British government sends troops into Northern Ireland to quell rioters in Belfast, Londonderry, and elsewhere
- The Woodstock Music and Art Festival is held near Bethel, New York, attracting an audience of 300,000
- American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin become the first men to set foot on the moon
- Charles Gordone publishes No Place to Be Somebody: A Black-Black Comedy
- John Guare publishes Muzeeka and Other Plays: Cop-Out, Home Fires
- Edouard Glissant publishes L’intention poetique
- Tadeusz Rozewicz publishes Faces of Anxiety
- Abelardo B. Delgado publishes Chicano: Twenty-five Pieces of a Chicano Mind
- Samuel Beckett receives Nobel Prize for Literature
- Robert Kroetsch receives the Governor General’s Literary Award in fiction
- Mario Puzo publishes The Godfather
- Jimmy Breslin publishes The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight
- P. H. Newby receives the Booker Prize for Something to Answer For
- Joyce Carol Oates publishes Them
- P. H. Newby publishes Something to Answer For
- Les A. Murray publishes The Weatherboard Cathedral
- Philip Roth publishes Portnoy’s Complaint
- Joan (Delano) Aiken receives the Guardian Award for The Whispering Mountain
- José Emilio Pacheco publishes No me preguntes como pasa el tiempo (Poemas, 1964-1968) (Don’t Ask Me How the Time Goes By: Poems, 1964-1968)
- Larry Kramer produces a motion-picture version of D. H. Lawrence’s novel Women in Love, for which he wrote the screenplay
- Adrienne Kennedy publishes Funnyhouse of a Negro
- N. Scott Momaday publishes Way to Rainy Mountain
- N. Scott Momaday receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for House Made of Dawn
- Norman Mailer receives the Pulitzer Prize in letters-general nonfiction for Armies of the Night
- Evan S. Connell Jr. publishes Mr. Bridge
- Elena Poniatowska publishes Hasta no verte, Jesus mío
- Edwidge Danticat is born (January 19)
- Jack Kerouac dies (October 21)
- Witold Gombrowicz dies (July 25)
- John Kennedy Toole dies (March 26)
- Jose Maria Arguedas dies (November 28)
- Frank Loesser dies (July 28)
