1960s Timeline

Mar. 20, 1964 - Brendan Behan (pictured in Dublin in 1960), the Irish playwright, died today at Meath Hospital in Dublin. He was 41 years...

Mar. 10, 1964 - Six authors — John Updike (pictured), Aileen Ward, Christopher Tunnard, Boris Pushkarev, William H. McNeill, and John...

Dec. 9, 1963 - Mrs. Mary Hemingway (right in 1952), widow of the late Ernest Hemingway, disclosed today that a novel, a travel book, a...

Nov. 24, 1963 - Professor C.S Lewis, literary historian, Christian apologist, and author of “The Screwtape Letters,” died Friday at his...

Nov. 23, 1963 - Aldous Huxley (pictured in 1948), the novelist-philosopher-historian whose satirical novel “Brave New World” (1932) set a...

July 10, 1963 - New York state’s highest court held in a 4-3 decision today that Henry Miller’s novel “Tropic of Cancer” is obscene under...

May 5, 1963 - Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck (pictured last year) arrived at a White House dinner last week with sad news:...

Feb. 14, 1963 - Just in case those who are following the chronicles of the Glass family have missed the news, two more J.D. Salinger...

Dec. 10, 1962 - American author John Steinbeck accepted his Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm today. #books #literature

Dec. 10, 1962 - American author John Steinbeck (right) accepted his Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm today. After expressing his...

Oct. 25, 1962 - John Steinbeck (pictured) has won the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature. The 60-year-old author is the sixth American to be...

Oct. 9, 1962 - Sylvia Beach (pictured with James Joyce in 1920), the bookshop owner who made literary history in 1922 when she became the...

Sept. 7, 1962 - Danish author Isak Dinesen (pictured center with Marilyn Monroe and Carson McCullers in 1959). She was 77 years old. The...

Aug. 21, 1962 - “Catch-22,” a satirical novel by Joseph Heller (pictured while serving in WWII) about the Air Force, will be turned into...

Aug. 9, 1962 - Hermann Hesse (pictured last year), the German-born Swiss author who won the 1946 Nobel Prize for Literature, died today...

June 14, 1962 - James Joyce (pictured in 1928), one of Ireland’s most famous writers but one who was long condemned and neglected in his...

Apr. 20, 1962 - William Faulkner ended a two-day visit to West Point today. He said he had been “pleasantly astounded” by the literary...

Dec. 26, 1961 - The film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “Tender is the Night,” with Jennifer Jones and Jason Robards Jr., will...

Nov. 13, 1961 - The novel “Tropic of Cancer” was banned in Massachusetts today. Superior Court Judge Lewis Goldberg described Henry...

Nov. 13, 1961 - Norman Mailer (right), author of the best-selling novel “The Naked and the Dead,” received a suspended sentence today on...