August 12 –Green Eggs and Ham, byDr. 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 poetWaldo Williams is imprisoned for six weeks for non-payment of income tax (a protest against defence spending).[6]
c. October –Vasily Grossman submits his novelLife and Fate (Жизнь и судьба) for publication, resulting in confiscation of the manuscript and all related material by theKGB in the Soviet Union.[7]
November –Rita Rait-Kovaleva's Russian translation ofThe Catcher in the Rye is published in the Soviet literary magazineInostrannaya Literatura asНад 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 theAmerican 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 scholarDjibril Tamsir Niane publishes the novelizationSoundjata, ou l'Epopée du Manding in Paris, the first extended transcription of the 13th-centuryEpic of Sundiata fromMandinka oral tradition and its first translation into a Western language.[14]
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