1965 in literature

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• The Magus - John Fowles is published. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

New Books

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Alex Haley & Malcolm X
• The British Museum Is Falling Down - David Lodge
• Dune - Frank Herbert
• Georgy Girl - Margaret Forster
• The Green Berets - Robin Moore
• Hotel - Arthur Hailey
• The Looking-Glass War - John le Carré
• The Magus - John Fowles
• The Man With The Golden Gun - Ian Fleming
• Markings - Dag Hammarskjold
• The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski
• The Source - James A. Michener
• Those Who Love - Irving Stone
• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. Dick
• Up the Down Staircase - Bel Kaufman

Births

• July 31 - Joanne Kathleen Rowling, author

Deaths

• January 4 - T. S. Eliot, American/British poet
• January 12 - Lorraine Hansberry, writer
• December 16 - William Somerset Maugham

Awards

• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Maia Wojciechowska, Shadow of a Bull
• Nobel Prize for literature - Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Frank D. Gilroy, The Subject Was Roses
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Shirley Ann Grau - The Keepers Of The House
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: John Berryman: 77 Dream Songs