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Events relating to literature
In Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov tells his story through an editor's annotations to a poem
In The Gutenberg Galaxy Canadian author Marshall McLuhan develops the concept of the 'global village'
Anthony Burgess publishes A Clockwork Orange, a novel depicting a disturbing and violent near-future
US poet Sylvia Plath publishes under a pseudonym her only novel, The Bell Jar
US poet Sylvia Plath commits suicide in London
English author John Le Carré publishes a Cold-War thriller The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Mary McCarthy's novel The Group follows the subsequent adventures of eight fellow graduates from Vassar
US environmentist Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring, an impassioned warning of ecological disaster
US author and illustrator Maurice Sendak publishes a fantasy for young children, Where the Wild Things Are
English author Margaret Drabble publishes her first novel, A Summer Birdcage
In The Feminine Mystique US feminist Betty Friedan challenges the stereotypical view of woman's role
Sexual intercourse begins in this year, according to Philip Larkin's 1974 poem Annus Mirabilis
Roald Dahl publishes a fantasy treat for a starving child, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
US poet John Berryman's 77 Dream Songs introduce Henry, his alter ego
Robert Lowell's For the Union Dead takes its title from the last poem, about modern disregard for a Civil War monument
English author A.S. Byatt publishes her first novel, Shadow of a Sun
New Zealand poet Fleur Adcock publishes her first collection, The Eye of the Hurricane
US author Joyce Carol Oates publishes her first novel, With Shuddering Fall
US author Saul Bellow publishes Herzog, a novel featuring a professor of history who is a compulsive sender of messages
Canadian author Marshall McLuhan declares, in Understanding Media, that 'the medium is the message'
Neil Simon's play The Odd Couple is produced in New York
US author Randall Jarrell's poem The Lost World provides the title for his last published book
Based on interviews given to Alex Haley in 1964, a life of Malcolm X is published soon after his assassination
Austrian author Peter Handke provokes interest with his first play Offending the Audience
English novelist Paul Scott publishes The Jewel in the Crown, the first volume in his 'Raj Quartet'
