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1958 Literary Facts
Boris Pasternak is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but is forbidden by the Soviet government from accepting it
The U.S. launches the satellite Explorer I
The National Guard is sent into Little Rock, Arkansas to enforce school desegration
Syria and Egypt form the United Arab Republic
Wilhelm Roepke publishes Jenseits von Angebot und Nachfrage (A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market)
Mao Tse-tung’s Chinese forces bombard the Nationalist-held coastal islands of Quemoy and Matsu
John Kenneth Galbraith publishes The Affluent Society
Gregory Corso publishes Gasoline
Ezra Pound is released from St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, where he had been confined for many years by the U.S. government
Ketti Frings receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for Look Homeward, Angel
Salvatore Quasimodo publishes La terre impareggiabile
Robert Lewis Taylor publishes The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
Giuseppe Tomassi di Lampedusa publishes Il gattopardo (The Leopard)
Ian Fleming publishes Doctor No
Stanley Kunitz publishes Selected Poems, 1928-1958
Yves Bonnefoy publishes Hier regnant desert
Truman Capote publishes Breakfast at Tiffany’s: A Short Novel and Three Stories
Chinua Achebe publishes Things Fall Apart
Archibald MacLeish’s J. B.: A Play is produced
Jorge Amado publishes Gabriela, cravo e canela (Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon)
James Agee is posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for A Death in the Family
Shelagh Delaney publishes A Taste of Honey
Brendan Behan publishes Borstal Boy
James Agee’s A Death in the Family is published
Charles Tomlinson publishes Seeing Is Believing
John Mortimer publishes Three Plays: The Dock Brief; What Shall We Tell Caroline?; [and] I Spy
Arthur Miller receives an Obie Award for The Crucible
Writing under the pseudonym Curt Cannon, Evan Hunter publishes I’m Cannon—For Hire
Bernard Malamud publishes The Magic Barrel
Kenzaburo Oe publishes Shiiku
James Reaney publishes A Suit of Nettles
Shelby Foote publishes The Civil War: A Narrative
Lawrence Ferlinghetti publishes A Coney Island of the Mind
Jean Genet’s Les Negres: Clownerie (The Blacks: A Clown Show) is produced
Caryl Phillips is born
Explore: Caryl Phillips, Crossing the River, A Distant Shore
George Jean Nathan dies
James Branch Cabell dies
Juan Ramón Jiménez dies
Explore: Platero and I
Angelina Weld Grimke dies
Roger Martin du Gard dies
Robert W. Service dies
Fenton Johnson dies
Zoë Akins dies