1963 in literature

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The year 1963 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Non-fiction
5 Poetry
6 Births
7 Deaths
8 Awards

[edit] Events

First United States printing of John Cleland's 1749 novel, Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure). The book is banned for obscenity, triggering a court case by its publisher.
Leslie Charteris publishes his final collection of stories featuring Simon Templar, also known as "The Saint", The Saint in the Sun (he first wrote about the character in 1928). After this, all future Saint books would be ghost written by other authors, though Charteris would continue in an editorial capacity until the series ends in 1983.

[edit] New books

J. G. Ballard
- The Four-Dimensional Nightmare
- Passport to Eternity
Simone de Beauvoir - Force of Circumstance (La Force des choses)
Pierre Boulle - Planet of the Apes (La Planète des Singes)
Anthony Burgess - Inside Mr. Enderby
Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins
Taylor Caldwell - Grandmother and the Priests
Morley Callaghan - That Summer in Paris
L. Sprague de Camp - A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales
L. Sprague de Camp, editor - Swords and Sorcery
Len Deighton - Horse Under Water
August Derleth - Mr. George and Other Odd Persons (writing as Stephen Grendon)
Daphne du Maurier - The Glass-Blowers
John Fowles - The Collector
Ian Fleming
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service
- Thrilling Cities
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Jane Gaskell – The Serpent
Günter Grass - Dog Years - (Hundejahre)
John Hawkes - Second Skin
Georgette Heyer - False Colours
Robert E. Howard - The Dark Man and Others
Damon Knight - First Flight: Maiden Voyages in Space and Time
John le Carré - The Spy who Came in from the Cold
Primo Levi - La tregua (The Truce/Reawakening)
Frank Belknap Long - The Horror from the Hills
H. P. Lovecraft - The Dunwich Horror and Others
Mary McCarthy - The Group
Richard McKenna - The Sand Pebbles
Alistair MacLean - Ice Station Zebra
Ruth Manning-Sanders - A Book of Giants
James A. Michener - Caravans
Emily Cheney Neville - It's Like This, Cat
John O'Hara - Elizabeth Appleton
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
Thomas Pynchon - V.
John Rechy - City of Night
Charles M. Schulz - Happiness Is a Warm Puppy
Susan Sontag - Benefactor
Rex Stout - The Mother Hunt
Boris and Arkady Strugatsky - Dalyokaya Raduga
Rosemary Sutcliff - Sword at Sunset
Walter Tevis - The Man Who Fell to Earth
Mario Vargas Llosa - La ciudad y los Perros The Time of the Hero
Jack Vance - The Dragon Masters
Tarjei Vesaas - Is-slottet (The Ice Palace)
Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
David Weiss - Naked Came I
Manly Wade Wellman - Who Fears the Devil?
Morris West - The Shoes of the Fisherman

[edit] New drama

Václav Havel - The Garden Party

[edit] Non-fiction

Thomas B. Costain - William the Conqueror.
L. Sprague de Camp - The Ancient Engineers.
Richard P. Feynman - Six Easy Pieces.
Shelby Foote – The Civil War: A Narrative – Vol 2: Fredicksburg to Meridian.
Martin Luther King Jr. - Letter from Birmingham Jail.
H. P. Lovecraft - Autobiography: Some Notes on a Nonentity.
William H. McNeill - The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community.
E. P. Thompson – The Making of the English Working Class.

[edit] Poetry

Main article: 1963 in poetry

T. S. Eliot - Collected Poems 1909-1962 - Comprehensive volume of Eliot's poetry, selected by the author, published on his 75th birthday, September 26, 1963.
Lionel Kearns - Songs of Circumstance
H. P. Lovecraft - Collected Poems