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See also: 1956 in literature, other events of 1957, 1958 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever is published.
Lawrence Durrell publishes Justine, the first of volume of The Alexandria Quartet. The final of the four volumes will be published in 1960.
On the Road by Jack Kerouac is published.
New Books
At Lady Molly's - Anthony Powell
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Below the Salt - Thomas B. Costain
Blue Camellia - Frances Parkinson Keyes
By Love Possessed - James Gould Cozzens
The Cat in the Hat - Dr. Seuss
The Comforters - Muriel Spark
Compulsion - Meyer Levin
Doomsday Morning - C. L. Moore
Eagle's Nest - Anna Kavan
Eloise in Paris - Kay Thompson
From Russia With Love - Ian Fleming
The Guns of Navarone - Alistair MacLean
Justine - Lawrence Durrell
Kids Say the Darndest Things! - Art Linkletter
La Loi - Roger Vailland
Long Day's Journey Into Night - Eugene O'Neill
On the Beach - Nevil Shute
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Rascals in Paradise - James A. Michener
The Scapegoat - Daphne du Maurier
Some Came Running - James Jones
Sugar Street - Naguib Mahfouz
Voltaire in Love - Nancy Mitford
The Wapshot Chronicle - John Cheever
Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing - Robert Paul Smith
Births
Deaths
February 10 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, author
March 29 - Joyce Cary, author
June 27 - Malcolm Lowry, author
December 17 - Dorothy L. Sayers, author
Awards
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Virginia Sorenson, Miracles on Maple Street
Nobel Prize for literature: Albert Camus
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: no award given
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Richard Wilbur: Things of This World
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