Events
- Spring - August Derleth launches the poetry magazine, Hawk and Whippoorwill.
- November 2 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case in the United Kingdom.
- November 8 - Richard Wright delivers a polemical lecture, "The Situation of the Black Artist and Intellectual in the United States", to students and members of the American Church in Paris.
- November 10 – Lady Chatterley's Lover sells 200,000 copies in one day following its publication since being banned since 1928.
- November 17 - Michael Foot is re-elected to Parliament and relinquishes the editorship of Tribune.
- Astounding magazine is renamed Analog.
- Dalton Trumbo, one of the Hollywood Ten, receives full screenwriting credit for his work on the films Exodus and Spartacus released this year.
- Hans Freudenthal invents the artificial language Lincos, intended for communication with extraterrestrial intelligence.
- Waldo Williams is imprisoned for six weeks for non-payment of income tax (a protest against defence spending).
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