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1955
 
    
Tennessee Williams' play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens on Broadway       
1955
 
    
Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge is performed in New York       
1956
 
    
English poet Ted Hughes marries US poet Sylvia Plath       
1956
 
    
Eugene O'Neill's searing account of tensions within his own family, Long Day's Journey into Night, has its premiere in Stockholm       
1956
 
     
Lawrence Ferlinghetti is prosecuted and acquitted for publishing Allen Ginsberg's Howl        
1957
 
    
US novelist John Cheever publishes The Wapshot Chronicle, depicting a wealthy and eccentric family in Massachusetts       
1957
 
    
Jack Kerouac publishes a largely autobiographical novel, On the Road, describing his experiences travelling through the US and Mexico       
1958
 
    
Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita is published in Paris       
1958
 
    
Truman Capote publishes a short novel, Breakfast at Tiffany's, with a bewitching central character, Holly Golightly       
1959
 
    
Saul Bellow publishes Henderson the Rain King, in which an American millionaire acquires a strange role in an African tribe