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...

Oct. 11, 1963 - Jean Cocteau (pictured in 1960), whose avant-garde creativity illuminated French intellectual life for half a century,...

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. 14, 1962 - A man identified by the police as William Lindsay Gresham, the writer, was found dead today in his room at the Dixie...

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...

July 6, 1962 - Although William Faulkner’s stories of northeast Mississippi were never understood by many, Oxford, Mississippi, the city...

July 6, 1962 - President Kennedy praised William Faulkner today as one of the “great creators of this age.” Mr. Kennedy’s statement,...

July 6, 1962 - William Faulkner (pictured in 1938) died of a heart attack this morning at Wright’s Sanatorium in Byhali, Mississippi. The...