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EVENTS

'' Winesburg, Ohio '' by Sherwood Anderson is published.

NEW BOOKS

'' Caesar Or Nothing '' - Pio Baroja

'' Demian '' - Hermann Hesse

'' Fields Of Victory '' - Mary Augusta Ward

'' The Forerunners '' - Romain Rolland

'' Helena '' - Mary Augusta Ward

'' Java Head '' - Joseph Hergesheimer

'' Jurgen '' - James Branch Cabell

'' Linda Condon '' - Joseph Hergesheimer

'' The Moon And Sixpence '' - W. Somerset Maugham

'' Night And Day '' - Virginia Woolf

'' Who Was Responsible? '' - Maggie Fullilove

'' Winesburg, Ohio '' - Sherwood Anderson

NEW DRAMA

Liviu Rebreanu - ''Cadrilul ("The Quadrille")''

POETRY

Edwin James Brady - '' The House Of The Winds ''

NON-FICTION

John Maynard Keynes - '' The Economic Consequences Of The Peace ''

H. L. Mencken - '' The American Language ''

SHORT STORY

" In The Penal Colony " - Franz Kafka

BIRTHS

January 1 - J. D. Salinger , novelist

January 7 - Robert Duncan , poet

January 25 - Edwin Newman , journalist, writer

March 24 - Robert Heilbroner , author of '' The Worldly Philosophers ''

May 17 - Robert H. Adleman , American novelist and historian

June 5 - Richard Scarry , children's author and illustrator

July 15 - Iris Murdoch , novelist

July 23 - Davis Grubb , novelist and short story writer

July 31 - Primo Levi , memoirist

October 22 - Doris Lessing , British novelist

November 23 - P. F. Strawson , philosopher

''date unknown'' - Charlotte Jay , suspense writer

''date unknown'' - Frank Kermode , literary critic

DEATHS

May 6 - L. Frank Baum

July 8 - John Fox, Jr.

October 22 - W. N. P. Barbellion , author of the "Journal of a Disappointed Man''

''date unknown'' - Weedon Grossmith , co-author of ''Diary of a Nobody''

AWARDS

Pulitzer Prize For Drama : ''no award given''

, ''Old Road to Paradise'' and Carl Sandburg , ''Corn Huskers''

- ''The Magnificent Ambersons''

, ''The Secret City''