1958

• The Secret of Sylvia, by Borden Deal (under pseudonym "Lee Borden") (Fawcett/Gold Medal)
• Three Famous Short Novels, by William Faulkner (Random House).
• The Civil War: A Narrative. Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville, history by Shelby Foote (Random House).
• Suddenly, Last Summer, a play by Tennessee Williams (New Directions).
• The Long Dream, a novel by Richard Wright (Doubleday).

March 7: Rick Bass born in Fort Worth, Texas.

September 30: Country music singer-songwriter Marty Stuart was born in Philadelphia, Mississippi.

January 7: Two plays by Tennessee Williams, Suddenly Last Summer and Something Unspoken, open under the collective title Garden District (after their shared New Orleans locale) Off-Broadway at the York Theatre in New York.

December 29: Period of Adjustment High Point over a Cavern by Tennessee Williams opens at Coconut Grove Playhouse, Miami.

Premiere of the film The Long Hot Summer, based on the novel The Hamlet and several short stories by William Faulkner.