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This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1950s, as determined by Publishers Weekly. [1] The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1950 through 1959 . The standards set for inclusion in the lists – which, for example, led to the exclusion of the novels in the Harry Potter series from the lists for the ...
The Beat Generation was a literary subculture movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-World War II era. [1] The bulk of their work was published and popularized by Silent Generationers in the 1950s , better known as Beatniks .
The 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger has had a lasting influence [1] [2] as it remains both a bestseller [3] and a frequently challenged book. [3] [4] Numerous works in popular culture have referenced the novel.
October 16 – C. S. Lewis's children's portal allegorical fantasy novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, illustrated by Pauline Baynes, is published by Geoffrey Bles in London, first of the seven-book The Chronicles of Narnia. [3] December 20 – Poet T. S. Eliot expresses concerns about "the television habit" in a letter to The Times ...
The author, who went on to found The Fugs, lived in the beatnik epicenter of Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Among the humor books, Beat, Beat, Beat was a 1959 Signet paperback of cartoons by Phi Beta Kappa Princeton graduate William F. Brown, who looked down on the movement from his position in the ...
Book Author January 1: The Egyptian: Mika Waltari: January 8 January 15 January 22 January 29 February 5 February 12 February 19: The Parasites: Daphne du Maurier: February 26 March 5 March 12 March 19 March 26: The Wall: John Hersey: April 2 April 9 April 16 April 23 April 30: The Cardinal: Henry Morton Robinson: May 7 May 14 May 21 May 28 ...
Impact and Influence of Black Singers from the 1950s 15th September 1954: Keith Edwards and Queenie Marques, two newly arrived immigrants from Jamaica relax to the sound of Keith’s trumpet playing.
Pages in category "1950s books" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. County Books series; D.