Albert Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Karl Jaspers, The Great Philosophers (originally published in German as Die großen Philosophen, 1957)
Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith (1957)
Bernard Lonergan, Insight: A Study of Human Understanding (1957)
B. F. Skinner, Verbal Behavior (1957)
Leopold Kohr, The Breakdown of Nations (1957)
André Leroi-Gourhan, Prehistoric Man (1957)
Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism (1957)
Noam Chomsky, Syntactic Structures (1957)
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (1957)
Max Frisch, Homo Faber (1957)
Erich Auerbach (October 13)
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