1961 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1961.

Events

New books

Fiction

Children and young people

Drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

References

  1. ^ "1961: End of the road for Monroe and Miller". On This Day. BBC. 24 January 1961. Retrieved 2013-04-18.
  2. ^ Kirk, Connie Ann (2004). Sylvia Plath: A Biography. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press. p. 85. ISBN 0-313-33214-2.
  3. ^ Senelick, Laurence (2013). Theatre Arts on Acting. Routledge. p. 74. ISBN 978-1134723751.
  4. ^ "Key Dates". Royal Shakespeare Company. 2010. Archived from the original on 16 June 2010. Retrieved 30 June 2010.
  5. ^ British Librarianship and Information Science. Library Association. 1961. p. 228.
  6. ^ Luc Gilleman (4 February 2014). John Osborne: Vituperative Artist. Routledge. p. 238. ISBN 978-1-317-84281-1.
  7. ^ Imprimatur: Ein Jahrbuch Für Bücherfreunde (in German). Im Verlag der Gesellschaft der Bibliophilen. 2003. p. 186.
  8. ^ Carey, John (2009). William Golding: The Man Who Wrote 'Lord of the Flies'. London: Faber. ISBN 9780571231638.
  9. ^ Bloom, Harold (2007). Joseph Heller's Catch-22. Infobase Publishing.
  10. ^ "What is Catch-22? And why does the book matter?". BBC News. 2002-03-12. Retrieved 2016-01-23.
  11. ^ Halliday, M. A. K. (1961). "Categories of the theory of grammar". WORD. 17 (3). International Linguistic Association: 241–292. doi:10.1080/00437956.1961.11659756.
  12. ^ Michael R. Collings (1 January 1986). Brian Aldiss. Wildside Press LLC. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-916732-74-5.
  13. ^ Norris J. Lacy; Geoffrey Ashe; Sandra Ness Ihle (5 September 2013). The New Arthurian Encyclopedia: New edition. Routledge. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-136-60633-5.
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  15. ^ Anita Silvey (1995). Children's books and their creators. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395653800. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
  16. ^ John Dickson Carr (1961). The Witch of the Low-tide: An Edwardian Melodrama. Harper.
  17. ^ O'Mahony, S (2012). "AJ Cronin and The Citadel". J R Coll Physicians Edinb. 22 (2): 172–8. doi:10.4997/JRCPE.2012.218. PMID 22693705.
  18. ^ Laughlin, Charlotte; Daniel J. H. Levack (1983). De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller. p. 50.
  19. ^ Sanford Sternlicht (1988). R.F. Delderfield. Twayne Publishers. p. 67.
  20. ^ "Garcia Marquez - Timeline". Themodernword.com. Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 4 February 2026.
  21. ^ "Books that Shaped America". Library of Congress. 2012. Archived from the original on 9 September 2017. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  22. ^ Eller, Jonathan R. (2011). The Story of Catch-22 (50th anniversary ed.). Catch-22: Simon & Schuster. p. 469. ISBN 978-1451626650.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  23. ^ Benjamin Mangrum (November 2018). Land of Tomorrow: Postwar Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism. Oxford University Press. p. 87. ISBN 978-0-19-090937-6.
  24. ^ Randall Stevenson (1993). A Reader's Guide to the Twentieth-century Novel in Britain. University Press of Kentucky. p. 91. ISBN 0-8131-0823-3.
  25. ^ James Kennaway (1 July 2010). Household Ghosts: A James Kennaway Omnibus: A James Kennaway Omnibus. Canongate Books. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-84767-494-4.
  26. ^ Sharon Rose Wilson (1993). Margaret Atwood's fairy-tale sexual politics. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 354. ISBN 978-1-61703-424-4.
  27. ^ Morrison, Jago, and Alan Burton. "Secrets, leaks and the novel: Writers, British intelligence and the public sphere after World War Two." Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik [AAA], vol. 48, no. 1, June 2023, pp. 71
  28. ^ The Bookmark. New York State Library. 1961. p. 131.
  29. ^ Russell Kirk (1980). Modern Age. Foundation for Foreign Affairs. p. 74.
  30. ^ Anthony Boxill (1983). V.S. Naipaul's Fiction: In Quest of The Enemy. York Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-919966-34-5.
  31. ^ Dr. Paul Jordan (2006). The Author in the Office: Narrative Writing in Twentieth-century Argentina and Uruguay. Tamesis Books. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-85566-126-4.
  32. ^ Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (2001). The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. The Society. p. 214.
  33. ^ Michael B. Snyder (2003). Women in Literature: Reading Through the Lens of Gender. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 240. ISBN 978-0-313-31346-2.
  34. ^ H. Paul Varley (1984). Japanese Culture. University of Hawaii Press. p. 248. ISBN 978-0-8248-0927-0.
  35. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1969). Reports of the President and of the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. p. 184.
  36. ^ a b C. J. Ackerley; S. E. Gontarski, eds. (2006). The Faber Companion to Samuel Beckett. Faber and Faber. p. 489.
  37. ^ Popova, Maria (17 April 2013). "The Artists' & Writers' Cookbook: A Rare 1961 Treasure Trove of Unusual Recipes and Creative Wit". The Marginalian.
  38. ^ "What is history? book review: E. H. Carr, a critical appraisal". archives.history.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-05-30.
  39. ^ Christian Haase (2007). Pragmatic Peacemakers: Institutes of International Affairs and the Liberalization of West Germany 1945-73. Wissner-Verlag. p. 198. ISBN 978-3-89639-603-7.
  40. ^ Edmund Byrne (11 March 1992). Work, Inc.: A Philosophical Inquiry. Temple University Press. p. 297. ISBN 978-0-87722-957-5.
  41. ^ R. Gregory, ed. (1987). The Oxford Companion to the Mind. pp. 417–8.
  42. ^ Skinner, David (July–August 2009). "Ain't That the Truth: Webster's Third: The Most Controversial Dictionary in the English Language". Humanities magazine. 30 (4). National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 2014-09-14.
  43. ^ "Arnaldur Indriðason". Reykjavik UNESCO City of Literature. Archived from the original on 5 August 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  44. ^ "UPI Almanac for Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020". United Press International. 11 January 2020. Archived from the original on 4 February 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2020. …author Jasper Fforde in 1961 (age 59)
  45. ^ Richard Burt (2007). Shakespeares After Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture. Greenwood Press. p. 745. ISBN 978-0-313-33118-3.
  46. ^ Contemporary Authors. Cengage Gale. August 2006. p. 215. ISBN 978-0-7876-7876-0.
  47. ^ "Andrea Dunbar (Estate)". United Agents. Retrieved 21 February 2026.
  48. ^ Jason Buchanan (2014). "Aaron Sorkin biography". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 11, 2014. Retrieved June 2, 2012. Born: June 9, 1961
  49. ^ Benjamin F. Shearer, ed. (September 2006). Home Front Heroes [Three Volumes]. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 187. ISBN 978-0-313-04705-3.
  50. ^ Douglas Coupland (May 1993). Shampoo Planet. Simon and Schuster. p. 309. ISBN 978-0-671-75506-5.
  51. ^ Hellman, Lilian, Introduction to posthumous Hammett, Dashiell, The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels (Houghton Mifflin: 1962).
  52. ^ Collector's Quest. 1968. p. 38.
  53. ^ John Arthur Garraty; Mark Christopher Carnes (1999). American National Biography. Oxford University Press. p. 544. ISBN 978-0-19-512800-0.
  54. ^ Carolyn Wedin Sylvander (1981). Jessie Redmon Fauset, Black American Writer. Whitston Publishing Company. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-87875-196-9.
  55. ^ "George S. Kaufman Dies at 71". The New York Times. June 3, 1961. Retrieved March 14, 2018.
  56. ^ "Peyami Safa (1899)- (15.06.1961)" (in Turkish). Biyografi. Retrieved January 14, 2013.
  57. ^ Vitoux, Frédéric (1991). Céline: A Biography. New York: Paragon House. ISBN 1-55778-255-5 Pages=551-7
  58. ^ Reynolds, Michael (2000). "Ernest Hemingway, 1899–1961: A Brief Biography". in Wagner-Martin, Linda (ed). A Historical Guide to Ernest Hemingway. New York: Oxford UP. ISBN 978-0-19-512152-0, page 16
  59. ^ Crowe-Grande, Trish (9 August 2020). "Exploring the early years of Newmarket literary icon Mazo de la Roche". NewmarketToday.ca. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  60. ^ Elaine Showalter; Lea Baechler; A. Walton Litz (27 September 1993). Modern American Women Writers. Simon and Schuster. p. 81. ISBN 978-0-02-082025-3.
  61. ^ Dan Campion (1995). Peter De Vries and Surrealism. Bucknell University Press. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-8387-5311-8.
  62. ^ Library of Congress. Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish Division (1974). The Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape: a descriptive guide. Library of Congress. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-8444-0115-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  63. ^ Daniel Hahn; Michael Morpurgo (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. Oxford University Press. p. 249. ISBN 978-0-19-969514-0.
  64. ^ Southern Observer: Southern Books and Authors, Publishing Notes, Best Sellers, Special Features. 1962. p. 90.
  65. ^ Nicholas Maes (23 March 2009). Robertson Davies: Magician of Words. Dundurn. p. 225. ISBN 978-1-77070-505-0.
  66. ^ French News. Published and distributed by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. 1963. p. 3.