more prolegomena: early 1963

[Mark Kohut]

V. was evidently published by February 1 of 1961...since it was on that date that it won the Wm Faulkner Foundation Award for First Novel. Other winners:
Cormac McCarthy, Orchard Keeper 1965...Rbt Coover, Origin of the Brunists....Larry Wiowode 1969, What I'm Going to Do, I Think?....others I looked up and have already forgotten. 
 
Time Mag's review @3/15.....NYTimes, April 21: George, "Paris Review", Plimpton praises. See the wiki. No other major newspaper, magazine reviews it seems...Tanner, Kermode, others, later and elsewhere it seems. 


    * March 22 – The Beatles release their first album Please Please Me.
 
When the book was 'going to press': 
January 14 George C. Wallace becomes governor of Alabama. In his inaugural speech, he defiantly proclaims "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever!"[1][2] 
 
January 28 – African American student Harvey Gantt enters Clemson University in South Carolina, the last U.S. state to hold out against racial integration. 
 
February 11 – The CIA's Domestic Operations Division is created. 
    * Fedruary 11 Sylvia Plath committed suicide. 
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    * February 19 – The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique launches the reawakening of the Women's Movement in the United States as women's organizations and consciousness-raising groups spread. 

 
    * March 
    * Iron Man debuts in Marvel Comics's Tales of Suspense #39. 
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March 18 – Gideon v. Wainwright: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the poor must have lawyers.
 
March : Letter from the Birmingham Jail written by MLKjr.