Books - 1962 in literature

Events

• Arthur Miller marries photographer Inge Morath.
• Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell are prosecuted and jailed for defacing library books.
• A tape-recorded conversation on science fiction took place between Kingsley Amis, C. S. Lewis and Brian Aldiss in Lewis's rooms at Cambridge.
• The works of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin are denounced by the Roman Catholic Church.
• Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath separate.

New books

• Apples of Gold - Jo Petty
• A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
• Dearly Beloved - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• The Drowned World
  - J. G. Ballard
• The Guns of August
  - Barbara Tuchman
• Islans
  - Aldous Huxley
• The Kindly Ones - Anthony Powell
• King Rat
  - James Clavell
• Lilies of the Field
  - William Barrett
• The Man in the High Castle
  - Philip K. Dick
• Mother Night
  - Kurt Vonnegut
• A Murder of Quality - John le Carré
• My Life in Court - Louis Nizer
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  - Ken Kesey
• Pale Fire
  - Vladimir Nabokov
• The Prize - Irving Wallace
• A Prologue To Love - Taylor Caldwell
• Reinhart in Love - Thomas Berger
• The Reivers
  - William Faulkner
• Seven Days in May
  - Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II
• Sex and the Single Girl - Helen Gurley Brown
• A Shade of Difference - Allen Drury
• Ship of Fools - Katherine Anne Porter
• The Slave - Isaac Bashevis Singer
• The Spy Who Loved Me
  - Ian Fleming
• The Ticket That Exploded
  - William S. Burroughs
• The Thin Red Line
  - James Jones
• Travels With Charley - John Steinbeck
• Wise Blood
  - Flannery O'Connor
• A Wrinkle in Time
  -- Madeleine L'Engle
• Youngblood Hawke - Herman Wouk

New drama

• Edward Albee - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• Friedrich Dürrenmatt - Die Physiker (The Physicists)
• Witold Gombrowicz - Historia

Poetry

• W. H. Auden - The Dyer's Hand
• William Carlos Williams - Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems

Non-fiction

• Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
• W. Somerset Maugham - Looking Back
• V. S. Naipaul - The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies - British, French and Dutch in the West Indies and South America
• John Steinbeck - Travels With Charley: In Search of America

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