1951 in literature

1951 in literature

The year 1951 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

*E. E. Cummings and Rachel Carson are awarded Guggenheim Fellowships.
*Flannery O'Connor is diagnosed with lupus.
*Anthony Powell produces the first novel of his "A Dance to the Music of Time" duodecalogy.
*Arthur C. Clarke publishes "The Sentinel", the story that will form the basis for the film "".
*First appearance of "Dennis the Menace" comic strip in "The Beano".
*Janie Moore, C. S. Lewis's adoptive mother, dies.
*James Clavell marries actress April Stride, who introduces him to the movie business.
*Joe Orton enters the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

New books

*Sholem Asch - "Moses"
*Isaac Asimov
**"Foundation"
**"The Stars Like Dust"
*Ray Bradbury - "The Illustrated Man"
*Gill Hunt - "Galactic Storm"
*Taylor Caldwell - "The Balance Wheel"
*Morley Callaghan - "The Loved and the Lost"
*Truman Capote - "The Grass Harp"
*Arthur C. Clarke - "Prelude to Space"
*Robertson Davies - "Tempest-Tost"
*L. Sprague de Camp
**"Rogue Queen"
**"The Undesired Princess"
*August Derleth - "The Memoirs of Solar Pons"
*Owen Dodson - "Boy at the Window"
*Daphne du Maurier - "My Cousin Rachel"
*Howard Fast - "Spartacus"
*Graham Greene - "The End of the Affair"
*Robert A. Heinlein - "The Puppet Masters"
*Patricia Highsmith (as Claire Morgan) - "The Price of Salt"
*James Jones - "From Here to Eternity"
*Nikos Kazantzakis - "The Last Temptation of Christ"
*Louis L'Amour - "The Rustlers of the West Fork"
*C. S. Lewis - "Prince Caspian"
*John Masters - "Nightrunners of Bengal"
*James A. Michener - "Return to Paradise"
*Nancy Mitford - "The Blessing"
*Nicholas Monsarrat - "The Cruel Sea"
*Alberto Moravia - "The Conformist" ("Il conformista")
*Anthony Powell - "A Question of Upbringing"
*J. D. Salinger - "The Catcher in the Rye"
*Ooka Shohei - "Fires on the Plain"
*Vern Schneider - "The Teahouse of the August Moon"
*Cardinal Spellman - "The Foundling"
*John Steinbeck - "The Log from the Sea of Cortez"
*Rex Stout
**"Curtains for Three"
**"Murder by the Book"
*William Styron - "Lie Down in Darkness"
*Elizabeth Taylor - "A Game of Hide and Seek"
*Josephine Tey - "The Daughter of Time"
*John Wyndham - "The Day of the Triffids"
*Mika Waltari - "The Wanderer"
*Herman Wouk - "The Caine Mutiny"
*Frank Yerby - "A Woman Called Fancy"
*Marguerite Yourcenar - "Mémoires d'Hadrien"

New drama

*A. A. Milne - "Before the Flood"
*Jean-Paul Sartre - "Le diable et le bon dieu (The Devil and the Good Lord)"
*John Van Druten - "I Am a Camera"
*Lawrence Riley - "Kin Hubbard"
*Tennessee Williams - "The Rose Tattoo"
*Peter Wessel Zapffe - "Den fortapte sønn, En dramatisk gjenfortælling (The lost son, a dramatic renarration)"

Poetry

*Frank O'Hara - "A City Winter and Other Poems"
*Clark Ashton Smith - "The Dark Chateau"

Non-fiction

*Rachel Carson - "The Sea Around Us"
*Nirad C. Chaudhuri - "The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian"
*Thomas B. Costain - "The Magnificent Century" (Second book in the Plantagenet or Pageant of England Series)
*Vladimir Nabokov - "Speak, Memory"

Births

*August 20 - Greg Bear, American science fiction author
*August 24 - Orson Scott Card, American science fiction author
*September 20 - Javier Marías, Spanish novelist
*October 12 - Peter Flannery, English dramatist
*December 22 - Charles de Lint, Canadian fantasy author & Celtic folk musician

Deaths

*January 7 - René Guénon, French philosophical writer (b. 1886)
*February 7 - Sinclair Lewis, American novelist (b. 1885)
*February 13 - Lloyd C. Douglas, American author (b. 1877)
*February 19 - André Gide, French author (b. 1869)
*March 25 - Oscar Micheaux, African-American author & filmmaker (b. 1884)
*April 29 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher (b. 1889)
*June 11 - W. C. Sellar, Scottish humorist (b. 1898)
*August 14 - William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper tycoon (b. 1863)
*September 2 - Antoine Bibesco, Romanian dramatist (b. 1878)
*December 4 - Pedro Salinas, Spanish poet (b. 1891)
*December 10 - Algernon Blackwood, English writer (b. 1869)

Awards

*Frost Medal: Wallace Stevens
*James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Chapman Mortimer, "Father Goose"
*James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Noel Annan, "Leslie Stephen"
*Newbery Medal: Elizabeth Yates, "Amos Fortune, Free Man"
*Nobel Prize in Literature: Pär Lagerkvist
*Premio Nadal: Luis Romero, "La noria"
*Pulitzer Prize for Drama: "no award given"
*Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Conrad Richter, "The Town"
*Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Carl Sandburg, "Complete Poems"


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