1954 in literature
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See also: 1953 in literature, other events of 1954, 1955 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- Jack Kerouac reads Dwight Goddard's A Buddhist Bible, which will influence him greatly.
- John Updike graduates from Harvard with a thesis on George Herbert.
- Lawrence Quincy Mumford becomes Librarian of Congress.
[edit] New books
- Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim
- Isaac Asimov - The Caves of Steel
- Hamilton Basso - The View from Pompey's Head
- Simone de Beauvoir - The Mandarins
- Pierre Boulle - The Bridge on the River Kwai (Le pont de la rivière Kwai)
- Taylor Caldwell - Never Victorious, Never Defeated
- Robertson Davies - Leaven of Malice
- Daphne du Maurier - Mary Anne
- Ian Fleming - Live and Let Die
- William Golding - Lord of the Flies
- Hergé - Explorers on the Moon
- Mac Hyman - No Time for Sergeants
- Frances Parkinson Keyes - The Royal Box
- C. S. Lewis - The Horse and His Boy
- Kamala Markandaya - Nectar in a Sieve
- Richard Matheson - I Am Legend
- James A. Michener - Sayonara
- Alberto Moravia - Il disprezzo (A Ghost at Noon)
- Iris Murdoch - Under the Net
- J. B. Priestley - The Magicians
- Marcel Proust - Jean Sauteuil (posthumously published)
- Pauline Réage - Histoire d'O (Story of O)
- Mordecai Richler - The Acrobats
- Anya Seton - Katherine
- Dr. Seuss - Horton Hears a Who!
- John Steinbeck - Sweet Thursday
- Irving Stone - Love Is Eternal
- Edward Streeter - Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
- Morton Thompson - Not as a Stranger
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Frank Yerby - Benton's Row
[edit] New drama
- Brendan Behan - The Quare Fellow
- Terence Rattigan - Separate Tables
- Dylan Thomas - Under Milk Wood
- Thornton Wilder - The Matchmaker
[edit] Non-fiction
- Albert Einstein - Ideas and Opinions
- Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception
- Arthur Koestler - The Invisible Writing: The Second Volume Of An Autobiography, 1932-40
- Mervyn Peake - Figures of Speech
[edit] Births
- January 29 - Oprah Winfrey, actress, talk show host, producer, publisher
- June 28 - A. A. Gill, journalist and critic
- November - Christopher Pike, children's author
- Esther Delisle, Quebec author & historian
[edit] Deaths
- January 1 - Duff Cooper (1st Viscount Norwich), poet, biographer and politician
- January 25 - M. N. Roy, philosopher and politician
- March 28 - Francis Brett Young, novelist and poet
- April 8
- Juan Álvarez, historian
- Winnifred Eaton, Canadian author
- April 19 - Russell Davenport, journalist and publisher
- May 3 - Earnest Hooton, popular writer on anthropology
- August 3 - Colette, French novelist
- September 19 - Miles Franklin, novelist
- September 29 - W. J. Gruffydd, editor of Y Llenor (Literature)
- December 6 - Lucien Tesnière, grammarian
[edit] Awards
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Joseph Krumgold, And Now Miguel
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Ernest Miller Hemingway
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: John Patrick, The Teahouse of the August Moon
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Theodore Roethke: The Waking
- King's Gold Medal for Poetry: Ralph Hodgson
