1951 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1951.

—Opening line of The Catcher in the Rye

Events

January – American writer Flannery O'Connor is diagnosed with lupus at age 25.

January 12 – Janie Moore, C. S. Lewis's "adoptive mother", dies.

March 12 – Hank Ketcham's Dennis the Menace appears for the first time in 16 United States newspapers.

March 17 – First appearance of Dennis the Menace comic strip in The Beano (U.K.)

Spring – Arthur C. Clarke's short story "The Sentinel", which will form a basis for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and subsequent novel, is published as "Sentinel of Eternity" in the only issue ever produced of the American science fiction and fantasy pulp magazine 10 Story Fantasy.

May – Joe Orton enters the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London where he meets his lover and eventual murderer Kenneth Halliwell.

July 16 – J. D. Salinger's coming-of-age story The Catcher in the Rye is published by Little, Brown and Company in New York City.

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