The year 1971 in literature involved some significant events and new books. [edit] Events [edit] New books [edit] New drama [edit] Poetry Main article: 1971 in poetry[edit] Non-fiction [edit] Births - January 16 - Helen Darville, writer
- February 3 - Sarah Kane, playwright (d. 1999)
- March 10 - Ugonna Wachuku, poet, creative writer, author
- March 29 - José Luis Rodríguez Pittí, Panamanian writer, photographer
- May 28 - Richard Gunn, journalist and motoring writer
- July 17 - Cory Doctorow, science fiction writer
- July 22 - Akhil Sharma, novelist
- December 19 - Tristan Egolf, novelist (d. 2005)
[edit] Deaths - March 5 - Allan Nevins, journalist
- March 7 - Stevie Smith, poet
- April 10 - André Billy, French author
- May 19 - Ogden Nash, poet and humorist
- May 20 - Waldo Williams, Welsh language poet
- June 1 - Reinhold Niebuhr, theologian
- June 4 - Georg Lukács, philosopher and critic
- June 6 - Edward Andrade, poet and physicist
- July 4 - August Derleth, anthologist
- July 7 - Claude Gauvreau, poet and dramatist
- August 30 - Peter Fleming, travel writer and brother of Ian Fleming
- October 25 - Philip Gordon Wylie, novelist
- November 10 - Walter Van Tilburg Clark, novelist (The Ox-Bow Incident)
- December 22 - Godfried Bomans, Dutch writer
- December 25 - S. Foster Damon, critic and poet
- date unknown
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