1958 in literature
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See also: 1957 in literature, other events of 1958, 1959 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
- August 18 - Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in United States.
- First volume of The Civil War by Shelby Foote is published.
- Rumours of a library ban on Enid Blyton's books in New Zealand.
- Herbert Marcuse begins teaching at Brandeis University.
- Jack Kerouac writes and narrates the "beat" movie, Pull My Daisy.
- Ken Kesey is awarded a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship to enrol in the creative writing program at Stanford University.
- Mervyn Peake begins to develop Parkinson's Disease.
New books
- The Affluent Society - John Kenneth Galbraith
- Anatomy of a Murder - Robert Traver
- Around the World with Auntie Mame - Patrick Dennis
- Balthazar - Lawrence Durrell
- Bird of Fire - Helen White
- Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
- Candy - Maxwell Kenton
- Crazy in Berlin - Thomas Berger
- Culture and Society 1780-1950 - Raymond Williams
- The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
- Dr. No - Ian Fleming
- The Enemy Camp - Jerome Weidman
- The Fly - James Clavell
- A Fly Went By - Mike McClintock
- From the Terrace - John O'Hara
- I Like It Here - Kingsley Amis
- Ice Palace - Edna Ferber
- The Innkeeper's Wife - A.J. Cronin
- The King Must Die - Mary Renault
- The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- Masters of Deceit - J. Edgar Hoover
- The Northern Light - A.J. Cronin
- Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene
- Playback - Raymond Chandler
- Red Alert - Peter George
- Venetia – Georgette Heyer
- Victorine - Frances Parkinson Keyes
- The Winthrop Woman - Anya Seton
- Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
- Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories - Dr. Seuss
- Young Caesar - Rex Warner
New drama
- Samuel Beckett - Krapp's Last Tape
- Harold Pinter - The Caretaker
- Tennessee Williams - Suddenly, Last Summer
Non-fiction
- Aldous Huxley - Brave New World Revisited
- Claude Lévi-Strauss - Structural Anthropology
- John Steinbeck - Once There Was A War
Births
- June 10 - James F. Conant, philosopher
Deaths
- February 4 - Henry Kuttner, science fiction author
- March 21 - Cyril M. Kornbluth, science fiction writer
- March 24 - Seamus O'Sullivan, poet
- April 7 - Elliot Paul, American writer
- May 5 - James Branch Cabell, fantasy fiction author
- June 28 - Alfred Noyes, poet
- September 11 - Robert W. Service, poet
- October 24 - George Edward Moore, philosopher
- October 30 - Rose Macaulay, novelist
Awards
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Harold Keith, Rifles for Watie
- Nobel Prize for literature: Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Ketti Frings, Look Homeward, Angel
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: James Agee - A Death In The Family
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Penn Warren: Promises: Poems 1954-1956
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