1963 in literature
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See also: 1962 in literature, other events of 1963, 1964 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
- First United States printing of John Cleland's 1749 novel, Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure). The book is banned for obscenity, triggering a court case by its publisher.
- Leslie Charteris publishes his final collection of stories featuring Simon Templar, also known as "The Saint", The Saint in the Sun (he first wrote about the character in 1928). After this, all future Saint books would be ghost written by other authors, though Charteris would collaborate on two more Saint books in the 1970s.
New books
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- Benefactor - Susan Sontag
- Caravans - James A. Michener
- Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
- City of Night - John Rechy
- The Collector - John Fowles
- Elizabeth Appleton - John O'Hara
- False Colours – Georgette Heyer
- John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure - John Cleland
- The Glass-Blowers - Daphne Du Maurier
- Gradmother and the Priests - Taylor Caldwell
- The Group - Mary McCarthy
- Happiness Is a Warm Puppy - Charles M. Schulz
- The Making of the English Working Class - E. P. Thompson
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Ian Fleming
- Planet of the Apes (La Planète des Singes) - Pierre Boulle
- The Rise of the West - William H. McNeill
- The Sand Pebbles - Richard McKenna
- Second Skin - John Hawkes
- The Shoes of the Fisherman - Morris West
- Six Easy Pieces - Richard P. Feynman
- The Spy who Came in from the Cold - John le Carré
- That Summer in Paris - Morley Callaghan
- Thrilling Cities - Ian Fleming
- V. - Thomas Pynchon
- William the Conqueror - Thomas B. Costain
New drama
- Václav Havel - The Garden Party
Poetry
- T. S. Eliot - Collected Poems 1909-1962 - Comprehensive volume of Eliot's poetry, selected by the author, published on his 75th birthday, September 26, 1963.
Births
- June 25 - Yann Martel, author
- Russell T. Davies, television writer
- Alice Sebold, author
Deaths
- January 8 - Kay Sage, poet
- January 29 - Robert Frost, poet
- February 11 - Sylvia Plath, poet/novelist.
- March 4 - William Carlos Williams, writer
- May 12 - Aiden Wilson Tozer, religious writer
- June 17 - John Cowper Powys, novelist
- August 18 - Clifford Odets, dramatist
- August 27 - W. E. B. Du Bois, writer/civil rights
- September 3 - Louis MacNeice, poet
- November 22 - Aldous Huxley, novelist
- November 22 - C.S. Lewis - novelist, Christian apologist, and English professor
- December 25 - Tristan Tzara, poet and essayist
- Theodore Roethke - American poet
Awards
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Madeline L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
- Nobel Prize for literature - Giorgos Seferis
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: William Faulkner - The Reivers
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William Carlos Williams: Pictures from Breughel
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