Events
- New American Writing, an annual literary magazine concentrating on poetry, is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
- March 4 — President Ronald Reagan publicly recites from memory lines from Robert Service's "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
- Wendy Cope, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis a best-seller
- December 18 — Pforzheimer Collection of the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley and his circle donated to the New York Public Library
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