1962 in literature
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See also: 1961 in literature, other events of 1962, 1963 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
- Arthur Miller marries photographer Inge Morath.
- Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell are prosecuted and jailed for defacing library books.
- A tape-recorded conversation on science fiction took place between Kingsley Amis, C. S. Lewis and Brian Aldiss in Lewis's rooms at Cambridge.
- The works of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin are denounced by the Roman Catholic Church.
- Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath separate.
- Lynne Reid Banks goes to live in a kibbutz.
New books
- Apples of Gold - Jo Petty
- A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
- Dearly Beloved - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- The Drowned World - J. G. Ballard
- The Guns of August - Barbara Tuchman
- Islans - Aldous Huxley
- The Kindly Ones - Anthony Powell
- King Rat - James Clavell
- Lilies of the Field - William Barrett
- The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
- Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
- A Murder of Quality - John le Carré
- My Life in Court - Louis Nizer
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
- Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
- The Prize - Irving Wallace
- A Prologue To Love - Taylor Caldwell
- Reinhart in Love - Thomas Berger
- The Reivers - William Faulkner
- Seven Days in May - Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II
- Sex and the Single Girl - Helen Gurley Brown
- A Shade of Difference - Allen Drury
- Ship of Fools - Katherine Anne Porter
- The Slave - Isaac Bashevis Singer
- The Spy Who Loved Me - Ian Fleming
- The Ticket That Exploded - William S. Burroughs
- The Thin Red Line - James Jones
- Travels With Charley - John Steinbeck
- Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor
- A Wrinkle in Time -- Madeleine L'Engle
- Youngblood Hawke - Herman Wouk
New drama
- Edward Albee - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt - Die Physiker (The Physicists)
- Witold Gombrowicz - Historia
Poetry
- W. H. Auden - The Dyer's Hand
- William Carlos Williams - Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems
Non-fiction
- Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
- W. Somerset Maugham - Looking Back
- V. S. Naipaul - The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies - British, French and Dutch in the West Indies and South America
- John Steinbeck -
- Thomas B. Costain - The Last Plantagenets (Fourth book in the Plantagenet or Pageant of England series)
- Milton Friedman - Capitalism and Freedom
Births
- February 21 - David Foster Wallace, novelist
- March 31 - Michal Viewegh, Czech language writer
- October 19 - Tracy Chevalier, novelist
- unknown date - Mark Haddon, novelist
- unknown date - David Edwards, journalist
- unknown date - Sebastian Junger, novelist
Deaths
- February 16 - Frank Prewett, poet
- April 24 - Emilio Prados, poet
- May 26 - Wilfred Wilson Gibson, poet
- June 2 - Vita Sackville-West, poet and gardener
- July 6 - William Faulkner, American novelist
- July 21 - G. M. Trevelyan, historian
- July 27 - Richard Aldington, World War I writer
- August 9 - Hermann Hesse, novelist
- September 3 - E. E. Cummings, poet
- September 23 - Patrick Hamilton, dramatist
- December 3 - Dame Mary Gilmore, poet and journalist
Awards
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth George Speare, The Bronze Bow
- Nobel Prize for literature - John Steinbeck
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Edwin O'Connor - The Edge of Sadness
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Alan Dugan: Poems
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