1970 in literature

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• Deliverance by American poet James Dickey published. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

• Ali and Nino - Kurban Said
• Ball Four - Jim Bouton
• The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
• The Crystal Cave - Mary Stewart
• Deliverance - James Dickey
• The Fall of the Towers (Trilogy) - Samuel R. Delany
• Fifth Business - Robertson Davies
• Frederick the Great - Nancy Mitford
• The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
• The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight - Jimmy Breslin
• Great Lion of God - Taylor Caldwell
• A Happy Death (La Mort heureuse) - Albert Camus
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
• Inside the Third Reich - Albert Speer
• Julia and the Bazooka - Anna Kavan
• Kamouraska - Anne Hébert
• Love Story - Erich Segal
• The Naked Face - Sidney Sheldon
• The National Dream - Pierre Berton
• Only the Ball was White - Robert Peterson
• QB VII - Leon Uris
• Ringworld - Larry Niven
• The Trumpet Of The Swan - E.B. White
• Travels with My Aunt - Graham Greene

• April 11 - John O'Hara, novelist

• Booker Prize: Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: William H. Armstrong, Sounder
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Charles Gordone, No Place To Be Somebody
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Jean Stafford, Collected Stories
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Richard Howard, Untitled Subjects