1957 In Literature

EVENTS

Lawrence Durrell publishes '' Justine '', the first of volume of '' The Alexandria Quartet ''. The final of the four volumes will be published in 1960.

Dorothy Parker begins writing book reviews for ''Esquire''.

E. E. Cummings receives a special citation from the National Book Award Committee for his ''Poems, 1923-1954''.

Italo Calvino resigns from the Communist Party. His famous letter of resignation is published in ''L'Unità''.

John Updike moves to Ipswich, Massachusetts , the model for the fictional New England town of Tarbox in his novel, ''Couples''.

''The Last Days of Sodom'', a novel jointly written by Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell , is rejected. As a result they give up working in partnership.

Malcolm Muggeridge is replaced by Bernard Hollowood as editor of ''Punch'' magazine.

NEW BOOKS

'' At Lady Molly's '' - Anthony Powell

'' The Assistant '' - Bernard Malamud

'' Atlas Shrugged '' - Ayn Rand

'' Below The Salt '' - Thomas B. Costain

'' Blue Camellia '' - Frances Parkinson Keyes

'' By Love Possessed '' - James Gould Cozzens

'' The Cat In The Hat '' - Dr. Seuss

''Collected Short Stories'' - Aldous Huxley

'' The Comforters '' - Muriel Spark

'' Compulsion '' - Meyer Levin

'' The Diamond Smugglers '' - Ian Fleming

'' Doctor Zhivago '' - Boris Pasternak

'' Doomsday Morning '' - C. L. Moore

'' Eagle's Nest '' - Anna Kavan

'' Eloise In Paris '' - Kay Thompson

'' From Russia With Love '' - Ian Fleming

'' The Guns Of Navarone '' - Alistair MacLean

'' Justine '' - Lawrence Durrell

'' Kids Say The Darndest Things! '' - Art Linkletter

'' La Loi '' - Roger Vailland

'' On The Beach '' - Nevil Shute

'' On The Road '' - Jack Kerouac

'' Rascals In Paradise '' - James A. Michener

'' The Scapegoat '' - Daphne Du Maurier

''The Short Reign of Pippin IV'' - John Steinbeck

'' Some Came Running '' - James Jones

'' Sugar Street '' - Naguib Mahfouz

'' Voltaire In Love '' - Nancy Mitford

'' The Wapshot Chronicle '' - John Cheever

'' Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing '' - Robert Paul Smith

NEW DRAMA

Samuel Beckett - '' Endgame ''

Eugene O'Neill - '' Long Day's Journey Into Night ''

John Osborne - '' The Entertainer ''

Mervyn Peake - ''The Wit to Woo''

NON-FICTION

Jean-Paul Sartre - '' Existentialism And Human Emotions ''

BIRTHS

May 17 - Peter Høeg , novelist

May 23 - Craig Brown , satirist

June 8 - Scott Adams , satirist

August 24 - Stephen Fry , actor, comedian, television presenter and novelist

DEATHS

February 10 - Laura Ingalls Wilder , author

March 12 - John Middleton Murry , critic

March 28 - Christopher Morley , journalist, novelist and poet

March 29 - Joyce Cary , author

April 22 - Roy Campbell , poet

June 17 - Dorothy Richardson , novelist

June 27 - Malcolm Lowry , author

September 2 - William Craigie , lexicographer

December 17 - Dorothy L. Sayers , crime novelist

AWARDS

, ''Miracles on Maple Hill''

Pulitzer Prize For Drama : Eugene O'Neill, ''Long Day's Journey Into Night''

Pulitzer Prize For Fiction : ''no award given''

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