Deaths
- January 17 - T. H. White, Arthurian novelist, 57 (heart condition)
- February 3 - Clarence Irving Lewis, philosopher, founder of conceptual pragmatism, 80
- February 25 - Grace Metalious, Peyton Place novelist, 39 (cirrhosis of liver)
- April 14 - Rachel Carson, environmentalist author, 56 (breast cancer)
- April 18 - Ben Hecht, screenwriter, 70
- May 13 - Hamilton Basso, novelist and journalist, 59
- August 3 - Flannery O'Connor, essayist, novelist and short story writer, 39 (complications from lupus)
- August 12 - Ian Fleming, James Bond author, 56 (heart attack)
- September 18 - Sean O'Casey, dramatist, 84
- November 21 - Leah Bodine Drake, poet, editor and critic, 49 (cancer)
- December 9 - Edith Sitwell, poet and critic, 77
- December 21 - Carl Van Vechten, writer and photographer, literary executor of Gertrude Stein., 84
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