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