1964 in Literature - Events

Events

  • June 22 - Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer is allowed to circulate legally in the United States by the U.S. Supreme Court three decades after its original publication in France, after the U.S. Supreme Court, in Grove Press, Inc. v. Gerstein, cites Jacobellis v. Ohio (which was decided the same day) and overrules state court findings that the book is obscene.
  • August 11 - Ian Fleming walks to the Royal St George's Golf Club in Canterbury, Kent, for lunch and later dines at his hotel with friends, collapsing shortly afterwards with a heart attack. His last recorded words are an apology to the ambulance drivers for having inconvenienced them, saying "I am sorry to trouble you chaps. I don't know how you get along so fast with the traffic on the roads these days." Fleming dies next day.
  • Jean-Paul Sartre becomes head of the Organization to Defend Iranian Political Prisoners(ODIPP).
  • Michael Moorcock becomes editor of the science fiction magazine New Worlds.
  • W. H. Auden describes his "Vision of Agape" (June 1933) in his preface to the anthology The Protestant Mystics.
  • Royal Shakespeare Company Experimental Group stages a Theatre of Cruelty season at the LAMDA Theatre Club, London.

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