1974 in literature

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

New Books

• All the President's Men - Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward
• Carrie - Stephen King
• Centennial - James A. Michener
• Crime Partners - Donald Goines
• The Cry of the Halidon - Robert Ludlum
• Death Sleep - John Hawkes
• The Diviners - Margaret Laurence
• The Dogs of War - Frederick Forsyth
• Falstaff - Robert Nye
• Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
• The Last Days of Louisiana Red - Ishmael Reed
• Let Me Alone - Anna Kavan
• Look at the Harlequins - Vladimir Nabokov
• The Other Side of Midnight - Sidney Sheldon
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Annie Dillard
• The Pirate - Harold Robbins
• The Power Broker - Robert A. Caro
• Something Happened - Joseph Heller
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - John le Carré
• Wait Until the Evening - Hal Bennett
• Watership Down - Richard Adams
• A Wind in the Door - Madeleine L'Engle
• Working - Studs Terkel

Births

Deaths

• December 14 - Walter Lippmann, writer

Awards

• Booker Prize: Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Paula Fox, The Slave Dancer
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Evyind Johnson and Harry Martinson
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: no award given
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Lowell, The Dolphin