Books - 1970 in literature

Events

• Deliverance
  by American poet James Dickey published. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

New books

• Ali and Nino - Kurban Said
• Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
  - Judy Blume
• Ball Four - Jim Bouton
• The Birds on the Trees
  - Nina Bawden
• The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
• The Crystal Cave
  - Mary Stewart
• Deliverance
  - James Dickey
• Eagle in the Snow
  - Wallace Breem
• The Fall of the Towers (Trilogy) - Samuel R. Delany
• Fifth Business
  - Robertson Davies
• Frederick the Great - Nancy Mitford
• The French Lieutenant's Woman
  - John Fowles
• The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight - Jimmy Breslin
• Great Lion of God - Taylor Caldwell
• A Happy Death
  (La Mort heureuse) - Albert Camus
• The Honours Board
  - Pamela Hansford Johnson
• I'm the King of the Castle - Susan Hill
• Inside the Third Reich
  - Albert Speer
• Julia and the Bazooka - Anna Kavan
• Kamouraska
  - Anne Hébert
• Love Story - Erich Segal
• The Malay Dilemma
  - Mahathir bin Mohamad
• The Naked Face
  - Sidney Sheldon
• The National Dream - Pierre Berton
• Oh My Darling Daughter
  - Eric Malpass
• Only the Ball was White - Robert W. Peterson
• QB VII
  - Leon Uris
• Ringworld
  - Larry Niven
• The Trumpet Of The Swan - E.B. White
• Travels with My Aunt
  - Graham Greene

New drama

• Dario Fo - Accidental Death of an Anarchist
• Anthony Shaffer - Sleuth

Births

• March 4 - Francis Okechukwu Ohanyido, Poet,Oral African Historian & Poet . Founder Afrisecal movement)

• September 10 - Phaswane Mpe, novelist, (d. 2004)
• September 24 - Gemma Moraleja Paz, poet and novelist
• unknown date - Alex Garland, novelist
• unknown date - Jonathan Stroud, fantasy writer

Deaths

• January 10 - Charles Olson, poet
• January 29 - Basil Liddell Hart, military historian
• February 2 - Bertrand Russell, philosopher
• March 11 - Erle Stanley Gardner, Perry Mason author
• March 29 - Vera Brittain, novelist and poet
• April 11 - John O'Hara, novelist
• May 12 - Nelly Sachs, poet and dramatist
• June 3 - Adrian Conan Doyle, son and literary executor of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• June 7 - E. M. Forster, novelist
• June 16 - Elsa Triolet, novelist
• July 15 - Eric Berne, psychiatrist and author
• September 1 - François Mauriac, novelist
• September 28 - John Dos Passos, novelist
• November 25 - Yukio Mishima, Japanese author and rightist political activist (suicide)

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