Which of the following noteworthy books were written during the 1950s? valley of the dolls by jacqueline susann in cold blood by truman capote the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe by c. s. lewis the games people play by eric berne charlotte's web by e. b. white the old man and the sea by ernest hemingway

In Cold Blood was started in 1959. Truman Capote finally spent six years writing the book and eventually published it in 1966.  Charlotte's Web is a children's novel by American author E. B. White with illustrations by Garth Williams. It was published by Harper & Brothers in 1952, three years after White began writing it.  The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written in 1951 in Cuba by the American author Ernest Hemingway. Was later published in 1952.

D.successful because there were no legal protections for unions.