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Literary News 1960
D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) was
banned until 1960 when Penguin Books was acquitted of publishing an obscene
book in both Britain and the US. It sold 2 million
copies in that one year in just England alone.
The governments of both England and America
losing this case put an end to the
censorship of literature.
Henry Miller completes
his trilogy, Sexus, Plexus, and
Nexus.
Albert Camus, French existentialist novelist and philosopher,
who hated riding in automobiles, died at 46 in
one when his nephew talked him into a road trip
to Paris and hit a tree. A train ticket to Paris
was found in Camus' pocket.
Pulitzer prize for fiction awarded to Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
Non Fiction 1960
Conscience of a Conservative
Barry Goldwater defines American Conservatism in this prequel to
running for President in 1964.
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
William Shirer
Light in my Darkness
Helen Keller
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
Albert Camus
Critique of Dialectical Reason Jean-Paul Sartre
1960 Tony Awards
(theater)
Play - A Raisin in the Sun
Actor - Melvyn
Douglas, The Best Man
Actress - Anne Bancroft, The
Miracle Worker
Supporting Actor - Roddy McDowall, The Fighting Cock Supporting Actress - Anne Revere,
Toys in the Attic
Director - Arthur Penn,
The Miracle Worker
A Raisin in the Sun
First play on Broadway written and directed by African
Americans. Staring Sidney Poitier.
 The Miracle
Worker
The
story of Helen Keller portrayed by Patty Duke,
with Anne Bancroft
Toys in the Attic
Lillian Hellman's play of a frivolous man doted upon by his wife
and sisters, comes into money, and to the sorrow
of the women around him, grows up and moves on.
Arthur Penn directs Jason Robarts, Maureen
Stapleton and Anne Revere.
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