1960 in literature

Events

• Lawrence Durrell publishes Clea, the final volume of the four-book collection titled The Alexandria Quartet that began in 1957. In 2001, the collection would be named as part of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

New Books

• Casanova's Chinese Restaurant - Anthony Powell
• The Chapman Report - Irving Wallace
• Clea - Lawrence Durrell
• Critique of Dialectical Reason - Jean-Paul Sartre
• Don't Tell Alfred - Nancy Mitford
• For Your Eyes Only - Ian Fleming
• Green Eggs and Ham - Dr. Seuss
• Hunters in a Narrow Street - Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
• The Many Colored Coat - Morley Callaghan
• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William L. Shirer
• To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
• The Torch - Wilder Penfield
• Truth and Method - Hans-Georg Gadamer
• The Violent Bear It Away - Flannery O'Connor
• The White Stone - Carlo Coccioli

Births

• November 10 - Neil Gaiman, author

Deaths

• January 4 - Albert Camus
• January 12 - Nevil Shute, writer
• January 28 - Zora Neale Hurston
• November 28 - Richard Wright, author

Awards

• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Joseph Krumgold, Onion John
• Nobel Prize for literature: Saint-John Perse
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Jerome Weidman, George Abbott for book' Jerry Bock for music, and Sheldon Harnick for lyrics, Fiorello!
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Allen Drury - Advise and Consent
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: W. D. Snodgrass: Heart's Needle

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