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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1961. Events January 24 – The American dramatist Arthur Miller and the film star Marilyn Monroe are granted a divorce in Mexico on grounds of incompatibility. February – Sylvia Plath suffers a miscarriage. Several of her poems, including "Parliament Hill Fields", address the event. March 15 – Hugh Wheeler's comedy Big Fish, Little Fish opens at the ANTA Theater in New York City, directed by Sir John Gielgud. It is one of the early Broadway plays to explore frankly the issue of male homosexuality. March 20 – The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, becomes the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and its company the Royal Shakespeare Company, with Peter Hall as director. May – Grove Press publishes Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer in the United States 27 years after its original publication in France. The book leads to one of many obscenity trials (Grove Press, Inc., v. Gerstein) that test American laws on pornography in the 1960s. May 27 – The British bookseller WHSmith closes the last of its in-store circulating library branches. August 8 – The first issue of Fantastic Four, by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, is published. It is considered the beginning of the post-World War II Marvel Comics line of superhero comic books. August 18 – The British magazine Tribune publishes a letter from playwright John Osborne beginning "Damn You, England..." September 8 – Publication of the science fiction novel series Perry Rhodan, der Erbe des Universums, originally written by K. H. Scheer and Walter Ernsting, is begun by Arthur Moewig Verlag in Germany in Romanhefte (partwork) format. It is then published every week, attaining more than 2880 issues and around two billion total copies sold worldwide by the end of 2016. September 14 – Novelist William Golding, having resigned a teaching post at Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury, sets off for the academic year 1961/1962 to teach at Hollins College, Virginia, United States. November 10 – Joseph Heller's satirical novel Catch-22 is first put on sale by Simon & Schuster in the United States, after favorable advance reviews in October. Heller has been working on the book since 1953, based on his experiences as a bombardier during World War II. Its title, which becomes a phrase referring to a no-win situation, had previously been Catch-18. unknown date – Michael Halliday publishes a seminal paper on the systemic functional grammar model. New books Fiction Brian Aldiss – The Primal Urge Poul Anderson – Three Hearts and Three Lions J. G. Ballard – The Wind From Nowhere James Barlow – Term of Trial Sheila Burnford – The Incredible Journey Morley Callaghan – A Passion in Rome John Dickson Carr – The Witch of the Low Tide: An Edwardian Melodrama Jean Cau – The Mercy of God Henry Cecil – Daughters in Law Sid Chaplin – The Day of the Sardine James Hadley Chase – A Lotus for Miss Quon Agatha Christie Double Sin and Other Stories The Pale Horse A. J. Cronin – The Judas Tree Jennifer Dawson – The Ha-Ha Cecil Day-Lewis – The Worm of Death L. Sprague de Camp – The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate R. F. Delderfield – Stop at a Winner August Derleth – The Reminiscences of Solar Pons Cyprian Ekwensi – Jagua Nana Ian Fleming – Thunderball (based on screen treatment by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham and the author) Gillian Freeman (as Eliot George) – The Leather Boys Gabriel García Márquez – No One Writes to the Colonel (El coronel no tiene quien le escriba) Martyn Goff – The Youngest Director Richard Gordon – Doctor on Toast Edward Gorey (as Ogdred Weary) – The Curious Sofa. A Pornographic Tale Winston Graham – Marnie Vasily Grossman – Everything Flows (Все течет; first published 1989) Harry Harrison – The Stainless Steel Rat Robert A. Heinlein – Stranger in a Strange Land Joseph Heller – Catch-22 Marlen Haushofer – The Wall Patricia Highsmith – This Sweet Sickness Richard Hughes -The Fox in the Attic Michael Innes – Silence Observed James Kennaway – Household Ghosts Ismith Khan – The Jumbie Bird Margaret Laurence – The Stone Angel John le Carré – Call for the Dead Stanisław Lem – Solaris Audrey Erskine Lindop – The Way to the Lantern H. P. Lovecraft – The Shunned House Ross Macdonald – The Wycherly Woman Compton Mackenzie – Mezzotint Gladys Mitchell – The Nodding Canaries Iris Murdoch – A Severed Head V. S. Naipaul – A House for Mr. Biswas R. K. Narayan – The Man-Eater of Malgudi Juan Carlos Onetti – El astillero (The Shipyard) Walker Percy – The Moviegoer Emeric Pressburger – Killing a Mouse on Sunday Caradog Prichard – Un Nos Ola Leuad (One Moonlit Night) Harold Robbins – The Carpetbaggers J. D. Salinger – Franny and Zooey Leonardo Sciascia – Il giorno della civetta Muriel Spark – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Howard Spring – I Met a Lady John Steinbeck – The Winter of Our Discontent Irving Stone – The Agony and the Ecstasy Rex Stout – The Final Deduction Theodore Sturgeon – Some of Your Blood Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎 潤一郎) – The Diary of a Mad Old Man (瘋癲老人日記) Leon Uris – Mila 18 Rose Valland – Le Front de l'art H. Russell Wakefield – Strayers from Sheol Edward Lewis Wallant – The Pawnbroker Evelyn Waugh – Unconditional Surrender Morris West – Daughter of Silence Angus Wilson – The Old Men at the Zoo Richard Yates – Revolutionary Road Children and young people Rev. W. Awdry – Branch Line Engines (sixteenth in The Railway Series of 42 books by him and his son Christopher Awdry) Roald Dahl – James and the Giant Peach L. Sprague de Camp – non-fiction The Heroic Age of American Invention Man and Power: The Story of Power from the Pyramids to the Atomic Age Barbara C. Freeman – Two-Thumb Tom Rumer Godden – Miss Happiness and Miss Flower René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo – Asterix the Gaul (Astérix le Gaulois) Maria Gripe – Josephine Norton Juster – The Phantom Tollbooth Bill Peet – Huge Harold Kin Platt – The Blue Man Wilson Rawls – Where the Red Fern Grows George Selden – The Cricket in Times Square (first in an unnamed sequence of seven books) Dr. Seuss – The Sneetches and Other Stories Elizabeth George Speare – The Bronze Bow John Rowe Townsend – Gumble's Yard Tomi Ungerer – The Three Robbers Drama John Barton – The Hollow Crown (anthology) Samuel Beckett Happy Days Rough for Radio I Rough for Radio II Emilio Carballido – Un pequeño día de ira Spiro Çomora – Karnavalet e Korçës (Carnival at Korçë) Henry Denker – A Far Country Friedrich Dürrenmatt – The Physicists (Die Physiker) Max Frisch – Andorra Jean Genet – The Screens (Les Paravents) Girish Karnad – Yayati Heiner Müller – Die Umsiedlerin (The Resettler Woman) Tom Murphy – A Whistle in the Dark John Osborne – Luther Neil Simon – Come Blow Your Horn John Whiting – The Devils Tennessee Williams – The Night of the Iguana Wu Han – Hai Rui Dismissed from Office (海瑞罢官, Hǎi Ruì bà guān) Poetry August Derleth editor – Fire and Sleet and Candlelight Non-fiction Alison Adburgham – A Punch History of Manners and Modes, 1841–1940 T.... 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