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Ford Madox Ford publishes '' Some Do Not ''. It is the first book of a four-volume work titled '' Parade's End '' published between 1924 and 1928.

NEW BOOKS

'' Akhnaton, King Of Egypt '' - Dmitri Merezhkovsky

'' The Art Of The Theatre '' - Sarah Bernhardt

'' The Autobiography Of Mark Twain '' - Mark Twain

'' Billy Budd, Foretopman '' - Herman Melville

'' By Sanction Of Law '' - Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.

'' The Dark Frigate '' - Charles Boardman Hawes

'' The Fire In The Flint '' - Walter F. White

'' The Green Bay Tree '' - Louis Bromfield

'' The Green Hat '' - Michael Arlen

'' The Land Of The Sun '' (poetry) - Edwin James Brady

'' The Magic Mountain '' - Thomas Mann

'' The Old Maid '' - Edith Wharton

'' A Passage To India '' - E. M. Forster

'' Peronnik The Fool '' - George Moore (novelist)

'' So Big '' - Edna Ferber

'' Some Do Not '' - Ford Maddox Ford

'' The Treasures Of Typhon '' - Eden Phillpotts

'' When We Were Very Young '' - A.A. Milne

NEW DRAMA

Noel Coward - '' The Vortex ''

Sean O'Casey - '' Juno And The Paycock ''

BIRTHS

January 30 - Lloyd Alexander , writer

February 3 - Andrzej Szczypiorski , writer (+ 2000 )

February 17 - Margaret Truman , novelist, daughter of President Harry S. Truman

August 3 - Leon Uris , author

September 4 - Joan Aiken , novelist

DEATHS

April 21 - Marie Corelli , author

May 4 - E. Nesbit , children's author

June 3 - Franz Kafka , author

August 3 - Joseph Conrad , author

October 13 - Anatole France , writer

October 25 - Laura Jean Libbey , novelist

December 6 - Gene Stratton Porter , American novelist and naturalist

December 26 - Arnold Henry Savage Landor , writer and artist, grandson of Walter Savage Landor

AWARDS

, '' A Passage To India ''

, ''The Dark Frigate''

, ''Hell-Bent Fer Heaven''

, ''New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes''

, ''The Able McLaughlins''