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Alphabetical index
1970 in literature
See also:
1969 in literature
,
other events of 1970
,
1971 in literature
,
list of years 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.
New Books
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 H�bert
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
Births
Deaths
April 11
-
John O'Hara
, novelist
Awards
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,
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