Steinbeck Dog Charley Is Dead
May 5, 1963 - Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck (pictured last year) arrived at a White House dinner last week with sad news:...
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- Feb 14
Reclusive J.D. Salinger Publishes New Book
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, 2022
Dec. 10, 1962 - John Steinbeck accepts the Nobel Prize
Dec. 10, 1962 - American author John Steinbeck accepted his Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm today. #books #literature
- Dec 10, 2022
Author John Steinbeck Accepts Nobel Prize for Literature
Dec. 10, 1962 - American author John Steinbeck (right) accepted his Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm today. After expressing his...
- Oct 25, 2022
Steinbeck Wins Nobel Prize for Literature
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, 2022
Sylvia Beach Dead at 75
Oct. 9, 1962 - Sylvia Beach (pictured with James Joyce in 1920), the bookshop owner who made literary history in 1922 when she became the...
- Sep 14, 2022
Struggling Crime Novelist Found Dead in New York Hotel
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...
- Sep 7, 2022
Author Isak Dinesen Dead
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, 2022
Books: Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22”
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, 2022
Author Hermann Hesse Dead at 85
Aug. 9, 1962 - Hermann Hesse (pictured last year), the German-born Swiss author who won the 1946 Nobel Prize for Literature, died today...
- Jul 6, 2022
Faulkner's Home was Oxford, Miss.
July 6, 1962 - Although William Faulkner’s stories of northeast Mississippi were never understood by many, Oxford, Mississippi, the city...
- Jul 6, 2022
President Kennedy Praises Faulkner
July 6, 1962 - President Kennedy praised William Faulkner today as one of the “great creators of this age.” Mr. Kennedy’s statement,...
- Jul 6, 2022
William Faulkner, Nobel Prize-winning Author, Dead at 64
July 6, 1962 - William Faulkner (pictured in 1938) died of a heart attack this morning at Wright’s Sanatorium in Byhali, Mississippi. The...
- Jun 14, 2022
Author James Joyce Honored in Dublin
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, 2022
William Faulkner Visits West Point
Apr. 20, 1962 - William Faulkner ended a two-day visit to West Point today. He said he had been “pleasantly astounded” by the literary...
- Mar 8, 2022
Hemingway Left Four Novels, Dozens of Unpublished Stories
Mar. 8, 1962 - Unpublished novels by Ernest Hemingway (second from left) — possibly four of them — and dozens of stories and sketches...
- Jan 28, 2022
Books: Barbara Tuchman's "The Guns of August"
Jan. 28, 1962 - Available in bookstores today is “The Guns of August,” a volume of history by Barbara W. Tuchman centered on the first...
- Dec 26, 2021
Movies: "Tender Is the Night" to Open Jan. 19
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 2, 2021
Humorist James Thurber is Dead
Nov. 2, 1961 - James Thurber, the writer and humorist, died of pneumonia today at New York Doctors Hospital, where he had undergone...
- Sep 13, 2021
Books: "Franny and Zooey," by J.D. Salinger
Sept. 13, 1961 - Hitting bookstores today is "Franny and Zooey" by J.D. Salinger. The book comprises his short story "Franny" and novella...
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