Events
- January 7 - In an article in the New York Times Book Review, Gore Vidal calls Evelyn Waugh "our time's first satirist."
- February 17 - Arthur Miller marries photographer Inge Morath.
- May - In the UK, Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell are prosecuted and jailed for defacing library books.
- June 30 - The works of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin are denounced by the Roman Catholic Church.
- September - Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath separate.
- December - L. Frank Baum's short story "The Tiger's Eye" is published for the first time, nearly six decades after it was written.
- A tape-recorded conversation on science fiction takes place between Kingsley Amis, C. S. Lewis and Brian Aldiss in Lewis's rooms at Cambridge.
- Lynne Reid Banks goes to live in a kibbutz.
- George Oppen publishes his first collection of poetry since Discrete Series in 1934, breaking a 28-year silence. He goes on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1969.
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