1967 in literature

• January
  • The first publication of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita («Ма́стер и Маргари́та»), in the form left at the author's death in 1940, concludes in the magazine Moskva, although censored portions circulate only in samizdat in the Soviet Union. It is first published in book form this year, by the YMCA Press in Paris.
  • Barbara Gordon is introduced as Batgirl in the Detective Comics series in the United States; when not exercising her superhero powers she uses her doctorate in library science as head of Gotham City public library.
• March 16 – The first performance of D. H. Lawrence's January 1913 play The Daughter-in-Law is given at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
• April 24 – The 18-year-old S. E. Hinton's Bildungsroman The Outsiders is published in the United States by Viking Press. She wrote it at the age of 15–16.
• August 9 – The English playwright Joe Orton (aged 34) is battered to death by his partner, Kenneth Halliwell, who commits suicide in their north London home shortly after.[1] Orton has completed work on a film script, Up Against It, for The Beatles (unproduced).
• October 21 – American writer Norman Mailer is arrested for civil disobedience during the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam March on The Pentagon.
• November 9 – The first issue of the magazine Rolling Stone is published in San Francisco.

Uncertain dates

• The influential New Wave science fiction anthology Dangerous Visions is published in the United States.
• The Sabon typeface, designed by Jan Tschichold, is introduced.

• January 7 – Benjamin Kwakye, Ghanaian novelist
• March 8 – Mitsuyo Kakuta (角田 光代), Japanese novelist and translator
• April 19 – Steven H Silver, American science fiction writer
• June 16 – Maylis de Kerangal, French novelist
• July 11 – Jhumpa Lahiri, English-born Indian/American writer
• July 19
  • Zoran Drvenkar, Croatian German novelist
  • Wladimir Kaminer, Russian German short story writer
• July 31 – Elizabeth Wurtzel, American memoirist (Prozac Nation) (died 2020)
• September 21 – Suman Pokhrel, Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist
• October 4 – Miloš Urban, Czech novelist
• December 12 – Robert Lepage, French Canadian playwright, actor and director

Uncertain date

• S. F. Said, Lebanese-born British children's fiction writer

• January 29 – Ion Buzdugan, Romanian poet and political figure (born 1887)
• February 8 – Victor Gollancz, English publisher (born 1893)
• March 2 – José Martínez Ruiz (Azorín), Spanish novelist (born 1873)
• March 7 – Alice B. Toklas, American memoirist and autobiographer (born 1893)
• March 30 – Jean Toomer, African American writer (born 1894)
• May 12 – John Masefield, English Poet Laureate (born 1878)
• May 22 – Langston Hughes, American poet, novelist and playwright (born 1902)
• June 3 – Arthur Ransome, English author of children's and other books (born 1884)
• June 4 – J. R. Ackerley, English journalist (born 1896)
• June 7 – Dorothy Parker, American humorist (born 1893)
• July 22
  • Lajos Kassák, Hungarian poet, novelist and translator (born 1887)
  • Carl Sandburg, American historian and poet (born 1878)
• July 31 – Margaret Kennedy, English novelist and playwright (born 1896)
• August 2 – Giles Romilly, English journalist (tranquilizer overdose, born 1916)
• August 9 – Joe Orton, English playwright (murdered, born 1933)
• August 29 – Sidney Bradshaw Fay, American historian and author (born 1876)
• September 1 – Siegfried Sassoon, English poet and memoirist (born 1886)
• September 12 – Vladimir Bartol, Slovene author (born 1903)
• September 16 – Pavlo Tychyna, Ukrainian poet (born 1891)
• September 24 – Robert van Gulik, Dutch author (cancer, born 1910)
• September 29 – Carson McCullers, American novelist (brain hemorrhage, born 1917)
• September – Christopher Okigbo, Nigerian poet (killed in action, born 1930)
• October 8 – Vernon Watkins, Welsh poet (heart failure, born 1906)
• October 9 – André Maurois, French novelist (born 1885)
• October 13 – Georges Sadoul, French journalist and writer on cinema (born 1904)
• October 14 – Marcel Aymé, French novelist and children's author (born 1902)
• November 17 – Bo Bergman, Swedish poet (born 1869)
• November 30 – Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet (born 1904)

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Miguel Ángel Asturias