"Scandinavian lecture tour suggesting that Hammarskjöld was, like Auden, homosexual. In 1962, John Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature. The selection was heavily criticized, and described as ""one of the Academy's biggest mistakes"" in one Swedish newspaper. ""The New York Times"" asked why the Nobel committee gave the award to an author whose ""limited talent is, in his best books, watered down by tenth-rate philosophising"", adding, ""we think it interesting that the laurel was not awarded to a writer ... whose significance, influence and sheer body of work had already made a more profound impression on the literature of"
"novel, and the critical outcry when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, Steinbeck published no more fiction in the next six years before his death. In 1962, Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for literature for his ""realistic and imaginative writing, combining as it does sympathetic humor and keen social perception."" The selection was heavily criticized, and described as ""one of the Academy's biggest mistakes"" in one Swedish newspaper. The reaction of American literary critics was also harsh. The ""New York Times"" asked why the Nobel committee gave the award to an author whose ""limited talent is,"
"was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. Steinbeck's contemporary, Nathanael West's two most famous short novels, ""Miss Lonelyhearts,"" which plumbs the life of its eponymous antihero, a reluctant (and, to comic effect, male) advice columnist, and the effects the tragic letters exert on it, and ""The Day of the Locust"", which introduces a cast of Hollywood stereotypes and explores the ironies of the movies, have come to be avowed classics of American literature. In non-fiction, James Agee's ""Let Us Now Praise Famous Men"" observes and depicts the lives of three struggling tenant-farming families in Alabama in 1936. Combining"
"National Steinbeck Center in Salinas. John Steinbeck John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (; February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature ""for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception."" He has been called ""a giant of American letters,"" and many of his works are considered classics of Western literature. During his writing career, he authored 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels ""Tortilla Flat"" (1935) and ""Cannery"
"the Nobel prize... so bad I can taste it."" MacShane says that T.S. Eliot told O'Hara that he had, in fact, been nominated twice. When John Steinbeck won the prize in 1962, O'Hara wired, ""Congratulations, I can think of only one other author I'd rather see get it."" In a letter to Steinbeck two years before that, O'Hara placed himself with Steinbeck in the pantheon of great 20th century American writers, Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Faulkner, singling out Faulkner among them as ""the one, the genius."" O'Hara died from cardiovascular disease in Princeton, New Jersey, and is interred in the Princeton"
"John Steinbeck John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (; February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature ""for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception."" He has been called ""a giant of American letters,"" and many of his works are considered classics of Western literature. During his writing career, he authored 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels ""Tortilla Flat"" (1935) and ""Cannery Row"" (1945), the multi-generation epic"
"Harper Lee Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926February 19, 2016) was an American novelist widely known for ""To Kill a Mockingbird"", published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Though Lee had only published this single book, in 2007 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature. Additionally, Lee received numerous honorary degrees, though she declined to speak on those occasions. She was also known for assisting her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book ""In Cold Blood"" (1966). Capote"
"considered for the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, along with American John Steinbeck (winner), British poet Robert Graves, French writer Jean Anouilh, and the Danish Karen Blixen. The Academy decided that ""Durrell was not to be given preference this year""—probably because ""they did not think that ""The Alexandria Quartet"" was enough, so they decided to keep him under observation for the future."" They also noted that he ""gives a dubious aftertaste … because of [his] monomaniacal preoccupation with erotic complications."" He had been considered in 1961 but did not make the shortlist. In 1955 Durrell separated from Eve Cohen. He"
"Sinclair Lewis Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded ""for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters."" His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American capitalism and materialism between the wars. He is also respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women. H. L. Mencken wrote of him, ""[If] there"
"Dickinson, virtually unknown during her lifetime, would be recognized as America's other essential poet. Eleven U.S. citizens have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, including John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, Pearl S. Buck, T. S. Eliot and Sinclair Lewis. Ernest Hemingway, the 1954 Nobel laureate, is often named as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. A work seen as capturing fundamental aspects of the national experience and character—such as Herman Melville's ""Moby-Dick"" (1851), Twain's ""The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" (1885), F. Scott Fitzgerald's ""The Great Gatsby"" (1925), and Harper Lee's ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" (1960)—"
"Robert DeMott Robert DeMott (born November 22, 1943) is an American author, scholar, and editor best known for his influential scholarship on writer John Steinbeck, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for ""The Grapes of Wrath"" (1939), and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. Robert DeMott was born in New Canaan, Connecticut, in 1943, the only child of James and Colletta DeMott. Until the age of eight, he lived with his parents on the estate of well known political artist and fine-art illuminator Arthur Szyk, who published ""The New Order"" (1941) and ""Ink & Blood"" (1946) and illustrated numerous Biblical"
"Oates was a member of the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation from 1997 to 2016. Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1962 and has since published over 40 novels, as well as a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award, for her novel ""them"" (1969), two O. Henry Awards, and the National Humanities Medal. Her novels ""Black Water"" (1992), ""What I"
"and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity."" Of the 16 poets, Graves was the only one still living at the time of the commemoration ceremony. UK government documents released in 2012 indicate that Graves turned down a CBE in 1957. In 2012 the Nobel Records were opened after 50 years, and it was revealed that Graves was among a shortlist of authors considered for the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, along with John Steinbeck (winner), Lawrence Durrell, Jean Anouilh and Karen Blixen. Graves was rejected because even though he had written several historical novels he was"
"sense of honor and duty to what is morally right, in this case resisting the Nazi forces, it can also be said that Anouilh, like Sophocles before him, makes a convincing argument for Creon's method of leadership. In 1970 his work was recognized with the ""Prix mondial Cino Del Duca"". In 2012, the Nobel Records were opened after 50 years and it was revealed that Anouilh was among a shortlist of authors considered for the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, along with John Steinbeck (winner), Robert Graves, Lawrence Durrell and Karen Blixen. According to a report in ""The Guardian"", ""It"
"'52). Novelist and short-story writer Joyce Carol Oates received the award in 2003, while poet Seamus Heaney won it in 2004. The 2005 honorees were Umberto Eco, the novelist, and Roger Angell, the New Yorker fiction editor and baseball writer. In 2006 Ian McEwan received the award; Margaret Atwood followed in 2007. In 2009 Louise Erdrich was honored, and in 2010 poet W.S. Merwin received the award. Historian, essayist and critic Simon Schama was the winner in 2011. Author and human rights advocate Elie Wiesel received the honor in 2012. In 2013 the poet Carl Phillips received the award, followed"
"and the National Book Award for Poetry in 1957; John Berryman and his ""The Dream Songs"", (Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1964, National Book Award, 1968); A.R. Ammons, whose ""Collected Poems 1951-1971"" won a National Book Award in 1973 and whose long poem ""Garbage"" earned him another in 1993; Theodore Roethke and his ""The Waking"" (Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1954); James Merrill and his epic poem of communication with the dead, ""The Changing Light at Sandover"" (Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1977); Louise Glück for her ""The Wild Iris"" (Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1993); W.S. Merwin for his ""The Carrier of Ladders"""
"Pynchon's ""Gravity's Rainbow"", Robert Coover's ""The Public Burning"", Samuel Beckett’s ""Trilogy"" (""Molloy"", ""Malone Dies"" and ""The Unnamable""), Gertrude Stein’s ""The Making of Americans"", and William S. Burrough's ""The Nova Trilogy"". Topping the list is Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 novel ""Pale Fire"", which McCaffery called the ""most audaciously conceived novel of the century."" Not counting the tetralogies of Rikki Ducornet (#35) and Gene Wolfe (#78), the most cited author is James Joyce, whose four works, ""Ulysses"" (#2), ""Finnegans Wake"" (#10), ""A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"" (#21), and ""Dubliners"" (#63), all made the list. Robert Coover and William H."
"analyze its importance on potential future Nobel Prize in Literature laureates. Only Alice Munro (2009) has been awarded with both. The Neustadt International Prize for Literature is regarded as one of the most prestigious international literary prizes, often referred to as the American equivalent to the Nobel Prize. Like the Nobel or the Man Booker International Prize, it is awarded not for any one work, but for an entire body of work. It is frequently seen as an indicator of who may be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gabriel García Márquez (1972 Neustadt, 1982 Nobel), Czesław Miłosz (1978 Neustadt,"
"who was inspired by Capote's memories of Lee as a child, was played by Aubrey Dollar. Harper Lee Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926February 19, 2016) was an American novelist widely known for ""To Kill a Mockingbird"", published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Though Lee had only published this single book, in 2007 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature. Additionally, Lee received numerous honorary degrees, though she declined to speak on those occasions. She was also known for assisting"
"travel through the continent, and William S. Burroughs's ""Naked Lunch"" (1959), a more experimental work structured as a series of vignettes relating, among other things, the narrator's travels and experiments with hard drugs. Regarding the war novel specifically, there was a literary explosion in America during the post–World War II era. Some of the best known of the works produced included Norman Mailer's ""The Naked and the Dead"" (1948), Joseph Heller's ""Catch-22"" (1961) and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s ""Slaughterhouse-Five"" (1969). ""The Moviegoer"" (1962), by Southern author Walker Percy, winner of the National Book Award, was his attempt at exploring ""the dislocation"
"Monolithos Monolithos, Poems 1962 and 1982 is the second book of poetry by American poet Jack Gilbert. It was nominated for all three major American book awards: the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and the American Book Award. The same year ""Monolithos"" was published, Gilbert's partner Michiko Nogami died of cancer. Released by Alfred A. Knopf in a 1982 hardcover edition, ""Monolithos"" came twenty years after ""Views of Jeopardy"", which won Gilbert the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 1962. A subsequent paperback edition of ""Monolithos"" was released by Graywolf Press in 1984. However,"
"Ellen Glasgow Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 – November 21, 1945) was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942. A lifelong Virginian who published 20 books including seven novels which sold well (five reaching best-seller lists) as well as gained critical acclaim, Glasgow portrayed the changing world of the contemporary South. Born in Richmond, Virginia on April 22, 1874 to Anne Jane Gholson (1831-1893), and her husband Francis Thomas Glasgow, the young Glasgow developed differently from other women of her aristocratic class. Due to poor health (later diagnosed as chronic heart disease),"
"dubbed the ""Great American Novel"". Twelve U.S. citizens have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, most recently Bob Dylan in 2016. William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck are often named among the most influential writers of the 20th century. Popular literary genres such as the Western and hardboiled crime fiction developed in the United States. The Beat Generation writers opened up new literary approaches, as have postmodernist authors such as John Barth, Thomas Pynchon, and Don DeLillo. The transcendentalists, led by Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, established the first major American philosophical movement. After the Civil War, Charles Sanders"
"Isabel Allende Isabel Allende (; born August 2, 1942) is a Chilean writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the genre of ""magical realism"", is famous for novels such as ""The House of the Spirits"" (""La casa de los espíritus"", 1982) and ""City of the Beasts"" (""La ciudad de las bestias"", 2002), which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called ""the world's most widely read Spanish-language author."" In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal"
"Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (1962) 82. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962) 83. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (1964) 84. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1966) 85. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1966) 86. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth (1969) 87. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor (1971) 88. Rabbit Redux by John Updike (1971) 89. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (1977) 90. A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul (1979) 91. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (1981) 92. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (1981) 93. Money: A Suicide Note by Martin"
"Helen Bevington Helen Smith Bevington (1906–2001) was an American poet, prose author, and educator. Her most noted book, ""Charley Smith's Girl"" (1965), was a runner-up for a Pulitzer Prize and it was ""banned by the library in the small town of Worcester, N.Y., where she grew up, because the book tells of her minister father's having been divorced by her mother for affairs that he was carrying on with younger female parishioners."" Bevington was born in Afton, New York. Bevington was reared in Worcester, New York where her father was a Methodist minister. Bevington attended the University of Chicago and"
"for a film, but eventually became a television series instead. ""A Journey to Matecumbe"" was adapted in 1976 as the Disney movie ""Treasure of Matecumbe"". His novel ""Professor Fodorski"" served as the basis for the 1962 musical ""All American"". Taylor died on September 30, 1998, six days after his 86th birthday. Robert Lewis Taylor Robert Lewis Taylor (September 24, 1912 – September 30, 1998) was an American writer and winner of the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Born in Carbondale, Illinois, Taylor attended Southern Illinois University for one year. The university now houses his papers. He graduated from the University"
"poet in a post-colonial world. Derek Walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, two years after publishing the epic poem ""Omeros."" He was known for writing about ""the harsh legacy of colonialism and the complexities of living and writing in two cultural worlds."" His poetic voice reflected a blend of his ear for the English language and his sense of his own people. Stephen Breslow explained that he and the Swedish Academy chose Derek Walcott for the Nobel Laureate in Literature because his work had ""a strong regional voice that transcends its topical locality, through the depth"
"John Buchan 45. Ulysses James Joyce 46. Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf 47. A Passage to India EM Forster 48. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 49. The Trial Franz Kafka 50. Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway 51. Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Celine 52. As I Lay Dying William Faulkner 53. Brave New World Aldous Huxley 54. Scoop Evelyn Waugh 55. USA John Dos Passos 56. The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler 57. The Pursuit Of Love Nancy Mitford 58. The Plague Albert Camus 59. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell 60. Malone Dies Samuel Beckett 61. Catcher in the"
"(1992). Seventeen winners of the Booker Prize have taken part: Margaret Atwood (2000), Julian Barnes (2011), A.S. Byatt (1990), Peter Carey (1988) & (2001), Kiran Desai (2006), Roddy Doyle (1993), Kazuo Ishiguro (1989), Howard Jacobson (2010), Thomas Keneally (1982), Penelope Lively (1987), Ian McEwan (1998), Yann Martel (2002), V. S. Naipaul (1971), Ben Okri (1991), Michael Ondaatje (1992), Arundhati Roy (1997), and Salman Rushdie (1981). Seven Whitbread (now called Costa) Book of the Year Award winners have taken part: Peter Ackroyd (1985), William Boyd (1981), Kazuo Ishiguro (1989), Andrea Levy (2004), David Lodge (1980), Philip Pullman (2006) and Colm Tóibín"
"the place we lived its name. It is the tip of a non-igneous stone island buried in debris when most of Thira blew apart 3,500 years ago."" Monolithos Monolithos, Poems 1962 and 1982 is the second book of poetry by American poet Jack Gilbert. It was nominated for all three major American book awards: the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and the American Book Award. The same year ""Monolithos"" was published, Gilbert's partner Michiko Nogami died of cancer. Released by Alfred A. Knopf in a 1982 hardcover edition, ""Monolithos"" came twenty years after ""Views of"
"Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1962 and has since published over 40 novels, as well as a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award, for her novel ""them"" (1969), two O. Henry Awards, and the National Humanities Medal. Her novels ""Black Water"" (1992), ""What I Lived For"" (1994), ""Blonde"" (2000), and short story collections, ""The Wheel of Love"" (1970) and ""Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories"" (2014)"
"intellectual filter. This view of African-American literature as a tool in the struggle for Black political and cultural liberation has been stated for decades, most famously by W. E. B. Du Bois. Since the 1960s the Western literary canon has been expanded to include writers from Asia, Africa, the Middle East. This is reflected in the Nobel prizes awarded in literature. Yasunari Kawabata (1899 – 1972) was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have"