1961 in Literature - Events

Events

  • February - Sylvia Plath suffers a miscarriage.
  • May - Grove Press publishes Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer in the United States 27 years after its original publication in France. The book leads to one of many obscenity trials (Grove Press, Inc., v. Gerstein) that tested American laws on pornography in the 1960s.
  • First English production of Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
  • Michael Halliday publishes his seminal paper on the systemic functional grammar model.
  • William Golding resigns his teaching post in the UK to spend a year as writer in residence at Hollins College, Virginia, USA.

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