1968

This is a list of events in the year 1968 of the 20th Century.

Biographical Events

• January 17
  • John Bellairs turns 30 years old.
• January 18-19
  • Bellairs leaves England on the Queen Elizabeth II.
• January 24
  • Queen Elizabeth docks.
• c. January
  • Returning from England, Bellairs settles in Boston.
• February 8
  • Elizabeth Bartelme, John's editor at Macmillan, writes the Fitschen that she had lunch with John in New York, where they "discussed The Face in the Frost at some length and he is going to do revisions." She notes that The Pedant and the Shuffly will be published on February 26^[1].
• February 24
  • Bellairs and Marilyn Fitschen attend an autographing party at Staver's Booksellers (57th and Kimbark, Chicago) to celebrate the publication of The Pedant and the Shuffly. Author Saul Bellow is unimpressed, according to Bellairs^[2][3].
• May 10
  • John and Priscilla go out on a first date^[4].
• June 24
  • John Bellairs marries Priscilla Braids at Christ Church, Cambridge.
• June 26
  • Bellairs writes to Dale and Marilyn Fitschen about leaving Emmanuel College^[5]:
    • "Got a tumble from Emmanuel College, a good Catholic girl’s school out on the Hagway in Boston near Hagway Park.”
    • Bellairs also mentions he went to a rally for Eugene McCarthy where actor Alan Arkin read from Catch 22.
• c. June
  • John moves into Priscilla's apartment at 11 Ellery Street, #6, Cambridge, where she had been living for two years^[4].
• Fall
  • John begins work as instructor of English at Emmanuel College, Boston.

Books Published

Category: Books published in 1968

• The Pedant and the Shuffly (US, Feb. 26, 1968^[1])

Reference

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Correspondence from  Elizabeth Bartelme to Fitschens (Feb. 8, 1968).
2. ↑ Correspondence with Alfred Myers.
3. ↑ Correspondence with Marilyn Fitschen.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Correspondence with Priscilla Bellairs.
5. ↑ Correspondence from John Bellairs to Dale and Marilyn Fitschen (Jun. 26, 1968).