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
- The Acrobats - Mordecai Richler
- I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
- Benton's Row - Frank Yerby
- The Bridge on the River Kwai (Le pont de la rivière Kwai) - Pierre Boulle
- The Caves of Steel - Isaac Asimov
- Il disprezzo (A Ghost at Noon) - Alberto Moravia
- The Egyptian - Mika Waltari
- Explorers on the Moon- Hergé
- Histoire d'O (Story of O) - Pauline Réage
- The Horse and His Boy - C. S. Lewis
- Horton Hears a Who! - Dr. Seuss
- Jean Sauteuil - Marcel Proust (posthumously published)
- Katherine - Anya Seton
- Leaven of Malice - Robertson Davies
- Live and Let Die - Ian Fleming
- Lord of the Flies - William Golding
- The Lord of the Rings : The Fellowship of the Ring - J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Lord of the Rings : The Two Towers - J. R. R. Tolkien
- Love Is Eternal - Irving Stone
- Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
- The Mandarins - Simone de Beauvoir
- The Magicians - J.B. Priestley
- Mary Anne - Daphne du Maurier
- Mr. Hobbs' Vacation - Edward Streeter
- Nectar in a Sieve - Kamala Markandaya
- Never Victorious, Never Defeated - Taylor Caldwell
- No Time for Sergeants - Mac Hyman
- Not as a Stranger - Morton Thompson
- The Royal Box - Frances Parkinson Keyes
- Sayonara - James A. Michener
- Sweet Thursday - John Steinbeck
- Under the Net - Iris Murdoch
- The View from Pompey's Head - Hamilton Basso
[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
