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EVENTS

Jorge Luis Borges returns to Buenos Aires after a period living in Europe.

NEW BOOKS

'' Nets To Catch The Wind '' - Elinor Wylie

'' Alexander's Bridge '' - Willa Cather

'' Alice Adams '' - Booth Tarkington

'' The Black Moth '' – Georgette Heyer

'' The Byzantine Riddle And Other Stories '' - Eugene Walter

'' Figures Of Earth '' - James Branch Cabell

'' Flappers And Philosophers '' - F. Scott Fitzgerald

'' Heloise And Abelard '' - George Moore (novelist)

'' Her Father's Daughter '' - Gene Stratton Porter

'' The Idol Of Paris '' - Sarah Bernhardt

'' Joanna Godden '' - Sheila Kaye-Smith

'' The Master Of Man '' - Hall Caine

'' The Mistress Of Husaby '' - Sigrid Undset

'' Mystery Ranch '' - Arthur Chapman

'' Romance To The Rescue '' - Denis Mackail

'' Scaramouche '' - Rafael Sabatini

'' The Secret Power '' - Marie Corelli

'' She And Allan '' - H. Rider Haggard

'' Three Soldiers '' - John Dos Passos

NEW DRAMA

Susan Glaspell - '' Inheritors ''

BIRTHS

January 5 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt , writer (+ 1990 )

January 19 - Patricia Highsmith , author (+ 1995 )

January 20 - Bernt Engelmann , author (+ 1994 )

February 4 - Betty Friedan , feminist author, ''The Feminine Mystique''

May 23 - James Blish , US Science Fiction Author

''date unknown'' - George Mackay Brown , poet

''date unknown'' - Israil Bercovici , dramatist and historian

DEATHS

March 22 - Ernest William Hornung , creator of "Raffles"

May 5 - Alfred Hermann Fried , publicist

June 5 - Georges Feydeau , French playwright

July 4 - Antoni Grabowski , promoter of Esperanto

August 7 - Alexander Blok , poet

August 20 - Ernest Daudet , novelist, historian and biographer

October 10 - Otto Von Gierke , historian

AWARDS

, ''Miss Lulu Bett''

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

- ''The Age of Innocence''

, ''Memoirs of a Midget''