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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
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)
