1958

January

• 17 - Bellairs turns 20 years old.

Fall

• Bellairs begins senior year at University of Notre Dame; lives in Sorin Hall (room 119); joins the Bookmen and Wranglers student groups.

October

• 3 - Bellairs's first "Escape" article, "the beginning: a little too much about the author", is published in the Scholastic.