1953 in literature

See also: 1952 in literature, other events of 1953, 1954 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• January 22 - The Crucible, a drama by Arthur Miller, opens on Broadway.
• February 19 - Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.

New Books

• The Silver Chair - C. S. Lewis
• The Bridges at Toko-Ri - James A. Michener
• Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
• The Robe - Lloyd C. Douglas
• Désirée - Annemarie Selinko
• Battle Cry - Leon Uris
• From Here to Eternity - James Jones
• The High and the Mighty - Ernest K. Gann
• Beyond This Place - A. J. Cronin
• Time and Time Again - James Hilton
• Lord Vanity - Samuel Shellabarger
• The Unconquered - Ben Ames Williams
• The Cornerstone - Zoe B. Oldenbourg

Deaths

• November 8 - John van Melle, South African author
• November 9 - Dylan Thomas, poet and author
• November 30 - Francis Picabia, painter, poet

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Archibald MacLeish: Collected Poems 1917-1952