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1959 in literature
See also:
1958 in literature
,
other events of 1959
,
1960 in literature
,
list of years in literature
.
Table of contents
1 Events
2 New Books
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Awards
Events
New Books
Advertisement for Myself[?]
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Norman Mailer
Advise and Consent[?]
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Allen Drury[?]
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz[?]
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Mordecai Richler
The Children of Gebelaawi[?]
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Naguib Mahfouz
Children of the Wolf[?]
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Alfred Duggan[?]
Dear and Glorious Physician[?]
-
Taylor Caldwell
The Elements of Style
-
William Strunk Jr.
and
E. B. White
Exodus
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Leon Uris
Goldfinger
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Ian Fleming
Goodbye, Columbus
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Philip Roth
The Haunting of Hill House[?]
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Shirley Jackson
Hawaii[?]
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James A. Michener
Henderson the Rain King[?]
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Saul Bellow
The Magic Christian
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Terry Southern[?]
Mountolive[?]
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Lawrence Durrell
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris[?]
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Paul Gallico[?]
Naked Lunch[?]
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William S. Burroughs
Poor No More[?]
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Robert Ruark[?]
Psycho[?]
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Robert Bloch
Starship Troopers
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Robert Heinlein
The Tin Drum[?]
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Gunter Grass
The Ugly American[?]
-
William J. Lederer[?]
&
Eugene L. Burdick[?]
Births
May 3
-
Ben Elton
, British comedian and author
Deaths
February 28
-
Maxwell Anderson[?]
, playwright, film writer
March 26
-
Raymond Chandler
, American novelist.
June 23
-
Boris Vian
, French novelist
Awards
Newberry Medal
for
children's literature
:
Elizabeth George Speare[?]
,
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Nobel Prize for literature
:
Salvatore Quasimodo
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
:
Archibald Macleish[?]
,
J. B.
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
:
Robert Lewis Taylor[?]
,
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
:
Stanley Kunitz[?]
,
Selected Poems 1928-1958
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