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Events relating to literature
US novelist Mary McCarthy describes the religious pressures she grew up with in Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
The Hawk in the Rain is English author Ted Hughes' first volume of poems
Jack Kerouac publishes a largely autobiographical novel, On the Road, describing his experiences travelling through the US and Mexico
In Voss Australian author Patrick White creates an epic novel about a disastrous attempt to cross the continent
The publication of the novel Justine launches Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet
In Syntactic Structures Noam Chomsky proposes the revolutionary theory that humans inherit an innate universal grammar
English author John Braine publishes his first novel, Room at the Top
English author Stevie Smith publishes her collection of poems Not Waving but Drowning
Laurence Olivier brings the music-hall artist Archie Rice vibrantly to life in John Osborne's The Entertainer
Boris Pasternak's only novel, Doctor Zhivago, is first published in an Italian translation
Irish dramatist Brendan Behan's play The Hostage is produced in Dublin
In The Affluent Society US economist John Kenneth Galbraith criticizes wasteful modern consumerism
Chicken Soup with Barley begins a trilogy by English playwright Arnold Wesker
The Fire Raisers, by Swiss dramatist Max Frisch, is performed in Zürich
Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita is published in Paris
Truman Capote publishes a short novel, Breakfast at Tiffany's, with a bewitching central character, Holly Golightly
Nigerian dramatist Wole Soyinka's play The Swamp Dwellers is produced in London
English author Alan Sillitoe publishes his first novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Harold Pinter's first play in London's West End, The Birthday Party, closes in less than a week
German novelist Günter Grass has an immediate success with his first novel, The Tin Drum
Saul Bellow publishes Henderson the Rain King, in which an American millionaire acquires a strange role in an African tribe
Keith Waterhouse has a wide success with his second novel, Billy Liar
US author William Burroughs' Naked Lunch, an account of the horrors of a junkie's life, is published in Paris
Harold Pinter's second play in London's West End, The Caretaker, immediately brings him an international reputation
Philip Roth publishes his first book, Goodbye, Columbus, a novella and five short stories
