1972 in literature

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• August 1914 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• Captains and the Kings - Taylor Caldwell
• Die the Long Day - Horace Orlando Patterson
• Endurance - James L Harris
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
• The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimov
• The Great Bridge - David McCullough
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
• The Manticore - Robertson Davies
• My Name is Asher Lev - Chaim Potok
• The Odessa File - Frederick Forsyth
• The Osterman Weekend - Robert Ludlum
• Semi-Tough - Dan Jenkins
• Two from Galilee - Marjorie Holmes
• The Word - Irving Wallace

• Booker Prize: John Berger, G
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Robert C. Obrien, Mrs. Frisbee and the Rats of NIMH
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Heinrich Böll
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Wallace Stegner - Angle of Repose
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Wright, Collected Poems