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1967
 
     
US poet Anne Sexton publishes Live or Die, a collection containing a poem to her dead friend Sylvia Plath        
1967
 
    
US author William Styron's novel The Confessions of Nat Turner describes a historical slave revolt in 1831       
1968
 
    
Ezra Pound publishes his last collection of cantos, Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX - CXVII       
1968
 
    
Gore Vidal publishes Myra Breckenridge, featuring a lively transsexual as the central character       
1969
 
    
US novelist Philip Roth publishes Portnoy's Complaint, a monologue in which the hero gives his psychoanalyst a frank description of his sexual frustrations       
1969
 
    
Space-traveller Billy Pilgrim suffers horrors in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five       
1970
 
    
US author Maya Angelou publishes her autobiographical first novel, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings       
1973
 
    
Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow conjures up weird events in wartime London       
1973
 
    
US author Stephen King publishes Carrie, the first of his many best-selling horror novels       
1973
 
    
US author Erica Jong publishes her first novel, Fear of Flying