1976 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1976.
- June 21 – The Market Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa, is opened as a multiracial venue by Barney Simon.[1]
- September 3 – Novelist Antonio di Benedetto is released from prison after 18 months of imprisonment and torture under the National Reorganization Process (military dictatorship) in Argentina.[2]
- September 9 – The Royal Shakespeare Company starts a noted production of Shakespeare's Macbeth at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench in the leading roles, directed by Trevor Nunn.[3]
- October 25 – The Royal National Theatre on London's South Bank opens in premises designed by Sir Denys Lasdun, with a performance of Goldoni's 18th-century comedy Il Campiello.[4]
- unknown dates
- Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers is established in new premises at Nanterre.[5]
- Mary Ronnie became the world's first female national librarian, at the National Library of New Zealand.[6]
New books
Fiction
- Brian Aldiss – The Malacia Tapestry
- Kingsley Amis – The Alteration
- Isaac Asimov – The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
- Margaret Atwood – Lady Oracle
- Elliott Baker – Klynt's Law
- Nina Bawden – Afternoon of a Good Woman[7]
- Martin Bax – The Hospital Ship.[8]
- Ann Beattie – Chilly Scenes of Winter[9]
- Peter Benchley – The Deep[10]
- Jack M. Bickham – Twister[11]
- Michael Bishop – And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees
- John Blackburn – The Face of the Lion[12]
- Lady Caroline Blackwood – The Stepdaughter
- Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac – La lèpre[13]
- Ben Bova
- City of Darkness
- The Multiple Man[14]
- Ray Bradbury – Long After Midnight
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Drums of Darkness
- The Shattered Chain (tenth in the Darkover series)
- John Braine – Waiting for Sheila[15]
- William F. Buckley – Saving the Queen (the first Blackford Oakes thriller)[16]
- Eleanor Alice Burford
- The Passionate Enemies (writing as Jean Plaidy)
- The Plantagenet Prelude (writing as Jean Plaidy)
- The Pride of the Peacock (writing as Victoria Holt)
- Saraband for Two Sisters (writing as Philippa Carr)
- Anthony Burgess – Beard's Roman Women[17]
- Taylor Caldwell – Ceremony of the Innocent[18]
- Ramsey Campbell – The Height of the Scream[19]
- Rosemary Carter
- Forests of the Dragon
- Man of the Wild
- Jack L. Chalker – A Jungle of Stars[20]
- Vera Chapman – The King's Damosel
- James Hadley Chase – Do Me a Favour, Drop Dead[21]
- C. J. Cherryh
- Brothers of Earth (first in the Hanan Rebellion duology)
- Gate of Ivrel (first in The Morgaine Cycle)
- Agatha Christie – Sleeping Murder
- Arthur C. Clarke (edited by Angus Wells) – The Best of Arthur C. Clarke 1937 – 1955
- Jon Cleary – A Sound of Lightning
- Theodore R. Cogswell (co-writing with Charles A. Spano, Jr.) – Spock, Messiah!
- Michael Collins – The Blood-Red Dream[22]
- Catherine Cookson
- Michael Crichton – Eaters of the Dead[25]
- Clive Cussler – Raise the Titanic!
- Lionel Davidson – The Sun Chemist
- Dorothy Salisbury Davis – A Death in the Life
- Len Deighton – Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy
- Samuel R. Delany – Triton
- Colin Dexter – Last Seen Wearing (second in the Inspector Morse series)
- Philip K. Dick (co-written with Roger Zelazny) – Deus Irae
- Peter Dickinson – King and Joker[26]
- Gordon R. Dickson – The Dragon and the George
- Jane Donnelly
- Dark Pursuer
- The Intruder[27]
- The Silver Cage
- Rosalyn Drexler (written as Julia Sorel)
- Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (TV film novelization)[28]
- Rocky (film novelization)[29]
- Michel Droit – La Mort du connétable[30]
- Allen Drury – A God Against the Gods
- Lois Duncan – Summer of Fear
- Allan W. Eckert – The HAB Theory
- Clive Egleton – State Visit[31]
- Charles Einstein – The Blackjack Hijack[32]
- Buchi Emecheta – The Bride Price
- Marian Engel – Bear
- Paul Erdman – The Crash of '79
- John Farris – The Fury
- Dick Francis – In the Frame
- Brian Freemantle – The November Man[33]
- Alan Dean Foster (ghostwritten as George Lucas) – Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker
- Paula Fox – The Widow's Children
- Dick Francis – In the Frame
- Christopher Frank – The Dream of the Mad Monkey (Le Rêve du singe fou)
- Morton Freedgood (written as John Godey) – The Talisman[34]
- John Gardner
- Moriarty
- To Run a Little Faster
- Brian Garfield – Gundown[35]
- Hugh Garner – The Intruders[36]
- Romain Gary (writing as Émile Ajar) – Hocus Bogus (Pseudo)
- Noel Gerson
- Neptune
- Special Agent
- William Goldman – Magic
- Richard Gordon – Doctor on the Job (fourteenth in the Doctor series)
- Winston Graham – The Four Swans (sixth in the Poldark series)
- Gerald Green – The Hostage Heart[37]
- Peter Van Greenaway – Suffer! Little Children[38]
- Sam Greenlee – Baghdad Blues[39]
- Judith Guest – Ordinary People
- Joe Haldeman – Mindbridge
- Alex Haley – Roots: The Saga of an American Family
- Donald Hamilton – The Retaliators (seventeenth in the Matt Helm series)
- Harry Harrison – Skyfall
- Sterling Hayden – Voyage: A Novel of 1896
- Marcy Heidish – A Woman Called Moses
- Frank Herbert – Children of Dune
- James Herbert – The Survivor
- James Herriot – Vets Might Fly (fifth in the James Herriot series)
- George V. Higgins – The Judgment of Deke Hunter
- Jack Higgins – Storm Warning
- Reginald Hill – Another Death in Venice[40]
- Helen Hodgman – Blue Skies
- Robert Holdstock
- Eye Among the Blind
- The Graveyard Cross
- Magic Man
- On the Inside
- The Time Beyond Age
- Travellers
- Cecelia Holland
- Floating Worlds
- Velda Johnston
- Deveron Hall
- The Frenchman
- Gayl Jones – Eva's Man
- Thomas Keneally – Season in Purgatory
- Warren Kiefer – The Pontius Pilate Papers
- Dean Koontz
- Prison of Ice (writing as David Axton)
- Night Chills
- William Kotzwinkle – Doctor Rat
- Michael Kurland – Tomorrow Knight
- Derek Lambert (writing as Richard Falkirk) – Blackstone Underground (fifth in the Blackstone series)
- Louis L'Amour
- The Rider of Lost Creek
- To the Far Blue Mountains
- Where the Long Grass Blows
- Ursula K. Le Guin – Orsinian Tales
- Elsie Lee
- John Lee – The Ninth Man
- Tanith Lee – Don't Bite the Sun
- Stanisław Lem – The Chain of Chance
- Elmore Leonard – Swag
- Rhoda Lerman – The Girl That He Marries
- Ira Levin – The Boys from Brazil
- Roger Longrigg – The Babe in the Wood[43]
- Robert Ludlum – The Gemini Contenders
- Richard A. Lupoff
- The Crack in the Sky
- Lisa Kane
- Sandworld
- The Triune Man
- Ross Macdonald – The Blue Hammer (eighteenth and final novel in the Lew Archer series)
- Alistair MacLean – The Golden Gate
- George R. R. Martin – A Song for Lya
- Eugene McCabe – Victims: A Tale from Fermanagh
- Helen McCloy – The Changeling Conspiracy
- Barbara Mertz
- Legend in Green Velvet (writing as Elizabeth Peters)
- Patriot's Dream (writing as Barbara Michaels)
- Nicholas Meyer – The West End Horror
- James Mills – The Seventh Power
- Thomas F. Monteleone – The Time Connection
- Robin Moore
- Dubai
- The Establishment (co-written with Harold Shumate)
- Hotel Tomayne
- The Kaufman Snatch
- The Pearl Harbor Cover-Up (co-written with Frank Schuler)
- The Season (co-written with Patricia Hornung)
- The Terminal Connection
- Valency Girl (co-written with Susan Deitz)
- Michael Moorcock
- The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in the 20th Century
- The End of All Songs
- Moorcock's Book of Martyrs
- The Sailor on the Seas of Fate
- The Time of the Hawklords (co-writing as with Michael Butterworth)
- Ryū Murakami – Almost Transparent Blue
- Fănuș Neagu – Frumoșii nebuni ai marilor orașe ("Those Beautiful Lunatics of the Great Cities")[44]
- Christopher Nicole
- Dark Passage (writing as Andrew York)
- Mistress of Darkness
- Guillotine (writing as Mark Logan)
- Tricolour (writing as Mark Logan)
- Larry Niven
- Frederick Nolan – The Mittenwald Syndicate[45]
- Andrew J. Offutt
- Beautiful Bitch (writing as John Cleve)
- Chieftain of Andor
- Disciplined! (writing as Jeff Morehead)
- The Erogenous Zone (writing as John Cleve)
- Succulent Line-Up (writing as John Cleve)
- Serena, Darling (writing as John Cleve)
- The Submission of Claudine (writing as Turk Winter)
- Triple Play! (writing as Jeff Morehead)
- The Undying Wizard (second volume in the Cormac Mac Art continuation series
- T. V. Olsen
- Day of the Buzzard
- Westward They Rode
- Robert B. Parker – Promised Land
- James Patterson – The Thomas Berryman Number
- Gary Paulsen
- Samuel Anthony Peeples – The Man Who Died Twice[48]
- Doris Piserchia – A Billion Days of Earth
- Denis Pitts – The Predator[49]
- Dudley Pope – Ramage's Diamond (seventh in the Ramage series)[50]
- Timothy Powers – The Skies Discrowned[51]
- Terry Pratchett – The Dark Side of the Sun
- Richard Price – Bloodbrothers
- Christopher Priest – The Space Machine
- Bill Pronzini
- Manuel Puig – Kiss of the Spider Woman
- Simon Raven – The Survivors
- Piers Paul Read – Polonaise
- Ishmael Reed – Flight to Canada
- Douglas Reeman
- Passage to Mutiny (ninth in the Richard Bolitho series, writing as Alexander Kent)
- Surface with Daring[55]
- Ruth Rendell
- Anne Rice – Interview with the Vampire
- Harold Robbins – The Lonely Lady
- Tom Robbins – Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
- Rosemary Rogers – Wicked Loving Lies
- William Rotsler (written as John Ryder Hall) – Futureworld (film novelization)[56]
- Lawrence Sanders
- The Tangent Factor
- The Tangent Objective
- Pamela Sargent – Cloned Lives
- Elizabeth Savage – The Girls from the Five Great Valleys
- Hubert Selby Jr. – The Demon
- David Seltzer – The Omen (film novelization)[57]
- Tom Sharpe – Wilt
- Bob Shaw
- Cosmic Kaleidoscope
- A Wreath of Stars
- Sidney Sheldon – A Stranger in the Mirror
- Anne Rivers Siddons – Heartbreak Hotel
- Alan Sillitoe – The Widower's Son
- Robert Silverberg – Shadrach in the Furnace
- Clifford D. Simak – Shakespeare's Planet
- George Frederick Sims – The End of the Web
- Upton Sinclair (died 1968) – The Coal War
- Carolyn Slaughter – The Story of the Weasel
- Guy N. Smith
- The Ghoul (film novelization)
- Night of the Crabs (first in the Crabs series)
- Return of the Werewolf (second in the Werewolf by Moonlight series)
- Wilbur Smith – Cry Wolf
- Jerry Sohl
- Blow-Dry (writing by Nathan Butler)
- I, Aleppo
- Muriel Spark – The Takeover
- Judith St. George – The Secret in the Old House
- Brian Stableford
- The Face of Heaven (first in The Realms of Tartarus trilogy)
- The Florians (first in the Daedalus Mission series)
- The Mind-Riders
- Christina Stead – Miss Herbert (The Suburban Wife)
- John Steinbeck – The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
- Fred Mustard Stewart – Six Weeks
- Mary Stewart – Touch Not the Cat
- David Storey – Saville
- Jacqueline Susann – Dolores
- Rosemary Sutcliff – Blood Feud
- Douglas Sutherland – Strike![58]
- Bernard Taylor – The Godsend
- Elizabeth Taylor (died 1975) – Blaming
- Mildred D. Taylor – Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
- Emma Tennant – Hotel de Dream
- Paul Theroux – The Family Arsenal
- Craig Thomas – Rat Trap
- Arthur Tofte – The Day the Earth Stood Still (film novelization)[59]
- Glen Tomasetti – Thoroughly Decent People: An Australian Folktale
- Elleston Trevor (writing as Adam Hall) – The Kobra Manifesto (seventh in the Quiller series)
- William Trevor – The Children of Dynmouth
- Leon Uris – Trinity
- Jack Vance – Maske: Thaery
- Gore Vidal – 1876
- Kurt Vonnegut – Slapstick
- Frank Waldman – The Pink Panther Strikes Again (film novelization)[60]
- Alice Walker – Meridian
- Irving Wallace – The R Document
- Ian Watson – Orgasmachine[61]
- Alec Waugh – Married to a Spy
- Angus Wells
- The Burning Man (written as Andrew Quiller)
- Death Wears Grey (written as Andrew Quiller)
- The Golden Dead (written as Andrew Quiller)
- The Land of Mist (written as Andrew Quiller)
- The Return of a Man Called Horse (film novelization)[62]
- Vengeance Hunt (written as Andrew Quiller)
- Morris West – The Navigator
- Donald E. Westlake – Dancing Aztecs
- Lionel White – Jailbreak
- Patrick White – A Fringe of Leaves
- Christopher Wood
- The Further Adventures of Barry Lyndon by Himself[63]
- Seven Nights in Japan (written as John Drew) (film novelization)
- Richard Woodley – The Bad News Bears (film novelization)[64]
- Colin Wilson – The Space Vampires
- Gene Wolfe – The Devil in a Forest
- Roger Zelazny
Children and young people
- Raymond Abrashkin (with Jay Williams) – Danny Dunn Scientific Detective (fourteenth in the Danny Dunn series)
- Richard Adams – The Tyger Voyage[65]
- Lynne Reid Banks
- The Adventures of King Midas
- The Farthest-Away Mountain
- Marc Brown – Arthur's Nose (first in the Arthur Read series)
- Mary Virginia Carey – The Mystery of Death Trap Mine (24th in the Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators series)
- Betty Cavanna – Mystery of the Emerald Buddha
- Michael Collins (as William Arden) – The Mystery of the Dancing Devil (25th in the Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators series)
- Helen Cresswell – The Winter of the Birds
- Vic Crume – The Shaggy D.A. (film novelization)[66]
- Peter Dickinson (illustrated by David Smee) – The Blue Hawk
- Jack Gantos – Rotten Ralph (first in the Rotten Ralph series)
- Roger Hargreaves (Mr. Men)
- Janet Quin-Harkin (illustrated by Anita Lobel) – Peter Penny's Dance
- Marguerite Henry (illustrated by Wesley Dennis) – A Pictorial Life Story of Misty
- Diana Wynne Jones – Power of Three
- Judith Kerr – Mog's Christmas (second in the Mog series)
- Alexander Key – Jagger, the Dog from Elsewhere
- E. L. Konigsburg – Father's Arcane Daughter
- Richard Peck – Are You in the House Alone?
- Florence Engel Randall – A Watcher in the Woods
- William Rawls – Summer of the Monkeys
- Maurice Sendak (co-writing with Matthew Margolis) – Some Swell Pup or Are You Sure You Want a Dog?
- William Steig
- Dr. Seuss
- The Cat's Quizzer
- Hooper Humperdink...? Not Him! (writing as Theo. LeSieg)
- Ruth Plumly Thompson (illustrated by Dick Martin) – The Enchanted Island of Oz
- Eve Titus – Basil in Mexico (fourth in the Basil of Baker Street series)
- Gertrude Chandler Warner – Benny Uncovers a Mystery (19th in the Boxcar Children series)
- Robert Westall – The Wind Eye
- Paul Zindel – Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball!
Drama
Non-fiction
- Bruce Bahrenburg – The Creation of Dino De Laurentiis' King Kong[69]
- James Herbert Brennan – An Occult History of the World
- Lothar-Günther Buchheim – U-Boot-Krieg
- Richard Dawkins – The Selfish Gene
- Leonard Gribble
- Famous Mysteries of Detection
- Famous Mysteries of Modern Times
- Tony Hillerman (editor) – The Spell of New Mexico
- Christopher Keane – The Hunter
- Arthur Koestler – The Thirteenth Tribe
- Ron Kovic – Born on the Fourth of July
- Daniel P. Mannix – We Who Are Not as Others
- James A. Michener – Sports in America
- Arthur Ransome (died 1967) – The Autobiography of Arthur Ransome (edited by Rupert Hart-Davis)
- Teddy Stauffer – Forever is a Hell of a Long Time: An Autobiography
- William Stevenson – A Man Called Intrepid
- Bob Woodward (with Carl Bernstein) – The Final Days
Births
- August 29 - Mieko Kawakami, Japanese novelist and poet
- October 31 – Seth Abramson, American journalist and poet[70]
- unknown dates
- Bora Chung, Korean short story writer and novelist[71]