March – The Cat in the Hat, written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel as 'Dr. Seuss' as a more entertaining alternative to traditional literacy primers for children, is first published in a trade edition in the United States, initially selling an average of 12,000 copies a month, a figure which rises rapidly.[2]
June 2 – Joe Orton submits The Last Days of Sodom, a novel jointly written with Kenneth Halliwell, to a publisher; it is rejected within three days and they give up working in partnership.[7]
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↑ Podalsky, Laura (2004). Specular city: transforming culture, consumption, and space in Buenos Aires, 1955-1973. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. p.23. ISBN9781566399487.
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↑ Riggs, Thomas (1999). Reference guide to short fiction. Detroit: St. James Press. p.162. ISBN9781558622227.
↑ Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-century British Literary Biographers. Gale Research. 1995. p.168.
↑ Anna and Teresa Campbell (2011), Remembering Roy Campbell: The Memoirs of His Daughters Anna and Tess, Winged Lion Press. Edited by Judith Lütge Coullie. Preface by Joseph Pearce. Page 1.
↑ Hay, Ann G. (1978). "Fyleman, Rose (Amy)". In Kirkpatrick, D.L. (ed.). Twentieth-century Children's Writers. London: Macmillan. p.485. ISBN978-0-33323-414-3.
↑ Carlos Solé; Maria Isabel Abreu (1989). Latin American Writers. Scribner. p.909.
↑ Lyons, J. B. (1976). Oliver St. John Gogarty. Lewisburg Pa: Bucknell University Press. p.12. ISBN9780838713594.
↑ French News. Published and distributed by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. 1957. p.18.
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