Events
- April 23 - C. S. Lewis marries Joy Gresham in a secret ceremony.
- June 16 - Ted Hughes marries Sylvia Plath at St George the Martyr Holborn in the London Borough of Camden.
- August 14 - Iris Murdoch marries John Bayley.
- Writing under the pseudonym of Emile Ajar, author Romain Gary becomes the only person ever to win the Prix Goncourt twice.
- Aldous Huxley marries author Laura Archera.
- Finished in 1952, Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy (Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street), is first published.
- First book in the long-running 87th Precinct series, Cop Hater, is first published, written by Ed McBain
- Nineteen-year-old Hunter S. Thompson is arrested for robbery.
- Sixteen-year-old Michael Moorcock becomes editor of Tarzan Adventures.
- Jorge Luis Borges becomes a professor of literature at the University of Buenos Aires.
- Martin Gardner begins his Mathematical Games column in Scientific American.
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“The system was breaking down. The one who had wandered alone past so many happenings and events began to feel, backing up along the primal vein that led to his center, the beginning of hiccup that would, if left to gather, explode the center to the extremities of life, the suburbs through which one makes one’s way to where the country is.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden into history, it is the stories we didn’t write, the questions we didn’t ask that prove far, far more damaging than the ones we did.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted, but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)