1957 in literature

See also: 1956 in literature, other events of 1957, 1958 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever is published.
• Lawrence Durrell publishes Justine, the first of volume of The Alexandria Quartet. The final of the four volumes will be published in 1960.
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac is published.

New books

• At Lady Molly's – Anthony Powell
• Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
• Below the Salt – Thomas B. Costain
• Blue Camellia – Frances Parkinson Keyes
• By Love Possessed – James Gould Cozzens
• The Cat in the Hat – Dr. Seuss
• The Comforters – Muriel Spark
• Compulsion – Meyer Levin
• Doomsday Morning – C. L. Moore
• Eagle's Nest  – Anna Kavan
• Eloise in Paris – Kay Thompson
• From Russia With Love  – Ian Fleming
• The Guns of Navarone – Alistair MacLean
• Justine – Lawrence Durrell
• Kids Say the Darndest Things! – Art Linkletter
• La Loi – Roger Vailland
• Long Day's Journey Into Night  – Eugene O'Neill
• On the Beach – Nevil Shute
• On the Road  – Jack Kerouac
• Rascals in Paradise – James A. Michener
• The Scapegoat – Daphne du Maurier
• Some Came Running – James Jones
• Sugar Street – Naguib Mahfouz
• Voltaire in Love – Nancy Mitford
• The Wapshot Chronicle – John Cheever
• Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing – Robert Paul Smith

Births

Deaths

• February 10 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, author
• March 29 – Joyce Cary, author
• June 27 – Malcolm Lowry, author
• December 17 – Dorothy L. Sayers, author

Awards

• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Virginia Sorenson, Miracles on Maple Street
• Nobel Prize for literature: Albert Camus
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: no award given
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Richard Wilbur: Things of This World