August 12 – Green Eggs and Ham, by Dr. Seuss, is published in the United States; 40 years on it will be the fourth-best selling English-language children's hardcover book yet written.[5]
September 5 – Welsh poet Waldo Williams is imprisoned for six weeks for non-payment of income tax (a protest against defence spending).[6]
c. October – Vasily Grossman submits his novel Life and Fate (Жизнь и судьба) for publication, resulting in confiscation of the manuscript and all related material by the KGB in the Soviet Union.[7]
November – Rita Rait-Kovaleva's Russian translation of The Catcher in the Rye is published in the Soviet literary magazine Inostrannaya Literatura as Над пропастью во ржи ("Over the Abyss in Rye").[8]
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, a few weeks before his death in the city from heart attack aged 52.[10]
November 10 – Lady Chatterley's Lover sells 200,000 copies in one day following its publication in the U.K. since being banned in 1928.[11]
Francophone African scholar Djibril Tamsir Niane publishes the novelization Soundjata, ou l'Epopée du Manding in Paris, the first extended transcription of the 13th-century Epic of Sundiata from Mandinka oral tradition and its first translation into a Western language.[14]
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^Chandler, Robert (1985). Introduction to Life and Fate. New York Review of Books Classics. p. xv.
^"Salinger's 'Catcher In The Rye' Resonated Behind Iron Curtain As Well". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved 2015-06-18.
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^Cedric J. Robinson (12 October 2005). Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. Univ of North Carolina Press. p. 405. ISBN 978-0-8078-7612-1.
^"Lady Chatterley's Lover sold out". On This Day. BBC. 1960-11-10. Archived from the original on 2008-03-07. Retrieved 2008-02-11.
^"Norman Mailer Arrested in Stabbing of Wife at a Party". The New York Times. 1960-11-22. Retrieved 2013-10-31.
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^Gary Westfahl (2005). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 457. ISBN 978-0-313-32952-4.
^Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. p. 10. ISBN 9780198715542.
^Haines, Catharine M. C. (2001). International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. p. 3. ISBN 978-1-57607-090-1.
^Stamatis, Alexis (2007). Bar Flaubert. Arcadia. ISBN 978-1-900850-57-5.
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