1957 in literature
See also: 1956 in literature, other events of 1957, 1958 in literature, list of years in literature.
EventsThe Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever is published. Lawrence Durrell publishes Justine, the first of volume of The Alexandria Quartet. The final of the four volumes will be published in 1960.On the Road by Jack Kerouac is published.
New booksAt Lady Molly's - Anthony PowellAtlas Shrugged - Ayn RandBelow the Salt - Thomas B. CostainBlue Camellia - Frances Parkinson Keyes By Love Possessed - James Gould CozzensThe Cat in the Hat - Dr. SeussThe Comforters - Muriel SparkCompulsion - Meyer LevinDoomsday Morning - C. L. MooreEagle's Nest - Anna KavanEloise in Paris - Kay ThompsonFrom Russia With Love - Ian FlemingThe Guns of Navarone - Alistair MacLeanJustine - Lawrence Durrell Kids Say the Darndest Things - Art LinkletterLa Loi - Roger VaillandLong Day's Journey Into Night - Eugene O'NeillOn the Beach - Nevil ShuteOn the Road - Jack KerouacRascals in Paradise - James A. MichenerThe Scapegoat - Daphne du MaurierSome Came Running - James Jones Sugar Street - Naguib MahfouzVoltaire in Love - Nancy Mitford The Wapshot Chronicle - John CheeverWhere Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing - Robert Paul Smith
Births
Deaths February 10 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, author March 29 - Joyce Cary, author June 27 - Malcolm Lowry, author December 17 - Dorothy L. Sayers, author
Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: Virginia Sorenson, Miracles on Maple Street Nobel Prize for literature: Albert Camus Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: no award given Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Richard Wilbur: Things of This World
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