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EVENTS

NEW BOOKS

'' The Able McLaughlins '' - Margaret Wilson

'' The Art Spirit '' - Robert Henri

'' Cane '' - Jean Toomer

'' La Coscienza Di Zeno '' - Italo Svevo

'' Deirdre '' - James Stephens

'' Faint Perfume '' - Zona Gale

'' The Great Roxhythe '' – Georgette Heyer

'' Harmonium '' - Wallace Stevens

'' The House At Pooh Corner '' - A.A. Milne

'' The Inimitable Jeeves '' - P. G. Wodehouse

'' Knock '' - Jules Romains

'' A Lost Lady '' - Willa Cather

'' Love And The Philosopher '' - Marie Corelli

'' Men Like Gods '' - H. G. Wells

'' Riceyman Steps '' - Arnold Bennett

'' Seven Trails '' - Max Brand

'' The Voyages Of Doctor Dolittle '' - Hugh Lofting

'' The Woman Of Knockaloe '' - Hall Caine

NEW DRAMA

Elmer Rice - '' The Adding Machine ''

George Bernard Shaw - '' Saint Joan ''

POETRY

William Carlos Williams - '' Go Go ''; '' Spring And All ''

BIRTHS

January 6 - Jacobo Timerman , writer (d. 1999 )

January 10 - Ingeborg Drewitz , writer (d. 1986 )

January 16 - Anthony Hecht , poet (d. 2004 )

January 29 - Paddy Chayefsky , writer (d. 1981 )

January 31 - Norman Mailer , writer and journalist

February 2 - James Dickey , poet, author (d. 1997 )

February 9 - Brendan Behan , author (d. 1964 )

March 30 - Milton Acorn , Canadian poet, writer, and playwright

May 1 - Joseph Heller , novelist (d. 1999 )

May 21 - Dorothy Hewett , poet, playwright and novelist (d. 2002 )

DEATHS

January 3 - Jaroslav Hašek , Czech novelist (b. 1883 )

January 9 - Katherine Mansfield , writer (b. 1888 )

AWARDS

, ''Riceyman Steps''

, ''The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle''

, ''Icebound''

: ''The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany''

- ''One of Ours''