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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1966. ==Events== *February – Boots UK closes the last of its circulating "Booklovers' Library" branches in its pharmacy chain stores. *February 10 – Author Jacqueline Susann has her first novel, ''Valley of the Dolls'', published. From a friend, she obtains a list of the bookstores upon which ''The New York Times'' relies for sales figures to determine its bestseller list. She then uses her own money to buy large quantities of the book at these stores resulting in her novel going to #1 on the list. ''Valley of the Dolls'' comes to rank among the best selling novels of all time. *February 14 – Dissident writers Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky are sentenced to hard labour for "anti-Soviet activity". *March 9 – J. R. R. Tolkien writes to Roger Verhulst, expressing his concerns about a proposed book about him by W. H. Auden, saying "I regard such things as premature impertinences ... I cannot believe that they have a usefulness to justify the distaste and irritation given to the victim", but adding "I owe Mr. Auden a debt of gratitude for the generosity with which he has supported and encouraged me since the first appearance of ''The Lord of the Rings''".〔(Tolkien Gateway. )〕 *March 21 – In the landmark obscenity case of ''Memoirs v. Massachusetts'', the Supreme Court of the United States rules that the hitherto-banned novel ''Fanny Hill'' (John Cleland's ''Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'', 1749) does not meet the Roth Standard for obscenity. *June 14 – The Roman Curia abolishes the ''Index Librorum Prohibitorum'' after 427 years. *June 16 – Blackwell's open the 930 m2 Norrington Room in their main bookshop in Broad Street, Oxford. *June 23 – Publication of ''Octopussy and the Living Daylights'', the final collection of James Bond short stories by the character's creator, Ian Fleming, who had died in 1964. *July 24 – Poet and critic Frank O'Hara is hit by a dune buggy on Fire Island beach.〔Belanger, Craig. "Frank O'Hara." Frank O'Hara (2005): 1. MasterFILE Premier. EBSCO. Web. 12 May 2011.〕 He dies of his injuries the following day. *August 24 – Tom Stoppard's tragicomedy ''Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead'' receives its première at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. *September 8 – First UNESCO International Literacy Day celebrated. *October 21 – Jacques Derrida delivers a lecture ''La Structure, le signe et le jeu dans le discours des sciences humaines'' (("Structure, sign, and play in the discourse of the human sciences" )) to a structuralism colloquium at Johns Hopkins University, bringing his work on literary theory to international prominence. *November 3–4 – 1966 Flood of the Arno River in Florence causes severe damage to the contents of libraries including the National Central Library and Gabinetto Vieusseux. *November 28 – Truman Capote's Black and White Ball ('The Party of the Century') is held in New York City. Guest of honor, ''Washington Post'' publisher Katharine Graham, later said: "Truman called me up that summer and said, 'I think you need cheering up. And I'm going to give you a ball.'...I was...sort of baffled....I felt a little bit like Truman was going to give the ball anyway and that I was part of the props."〔George Plimpton (1997). ''Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career''. New York, Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-23249-7, p. 248〕 *December – ''Moskva'' magazine begins the first publication of Mihail Bulgakov's novel ''The Master and Margarita'' (Ма́стер и Маргари́та, begun in 1928 but left incomplete on the author's death in 1940), in 2 parts with portions omitted or altered. *First modern revival of a play by Bhāsa, ''Madhyamavyayoga'', directed by Shanta Gandhi in a Hindi translation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1966 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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