1963 in literature
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See also: 1962 in literature, other events of 1963, 1964 in literature, list of years in literature.
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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.
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
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