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| 1953 |
| | | Arthur Miller's play The Crucible uses the Salem witch trials as a metaphor for the contemporary paranoia of McCarthyism | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Tennessee Williams' play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens on Broadway | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Graham Greene's novel The Quiet American is set in contemporary Vietnam and foresees troubles ahead | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge is performed in New York | |
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| 1956 |
| | | English poet Ted Hughes marries US poet Sylvia Plath | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Eugene O'Neill's searing account of tensions within his own family, Long Day's Journey into Night, has its premiere in Stockholm | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Lawrence Ferlinghetti is prosecuted and acquitted for publishing Allen Ginsberg's Howl | |
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| 1957 |
| | | US novelist John Cheever publishes The Wapshot Chronicle, depicting a wealthy and eccentric family in Massachusetts | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Jack Kerouac publishes a largely autobiographical novel, On the Road, describing his experiences travelling through the US and Mexico | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita is published in Paris | |
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