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EVENTS

Bread Loaf Writers' Conference founded in Middlebury, Vermont .

Ford Madox Ford publishes '' A Man Could Stand Up ''. It is the third book of a four-volume work titled '' Parade's End '' published between 1924 and 1928.

October 14 - The Children's Book '' Winnie-the-Pooh '', by A.A. Milne , is published for the first time.

NEW BOOKS

'' Autobiographies '' - W. B. Yeats

'' The Castle '' - Franz Kafka

'' Early Autumn '' - Louis Bromfield

'' Flight '' - Walter F. White

'' The Great Gatsby '' - F. Scott Fitzgerald

'' The Haunting Hand '' - Walter A. Roberts

'' A Man Could Stand Up '' - Ford Madox Ford

'' Payment Deferred '' - C.S. Forester

'' Petenera's Daughter '' - Henry Bellamann

'' Preface To Life '' - Zona Gale

'' Ralph 124C 41+ '' - Hugo Gernsback

'' The Romantic Comedians '' - Ellen Glasgow

'' Shen Of The Sea '' - Arthur Bowie Chrisman

'' These Old Shades '' – Georgette Heyer

'' The Spell Of The Turf '' - James R. Crowell & Samuel C. Hildreth

'' The Sun Also Rises '' - Ernest Hemingway

'' The Three Students '' - Haldane MacFall

'' The Ugly Duchess '' - Lion Feuchtwanger

'' Ulich And Soracha '' - George A. Moore

'' Winnie-the-Pooh '' - A.A. Milne

'' The World Of William Clissold '' - H. G. Wells

NEW DRAMA

St. John Greer Ervine - ''Anthony and Anna''

Sean O'Casey - '' The Plough And The Stars ''

NON-FICTION

Angela Brazil - '' My Own Schooldays ''

R. H. Tawney - '' Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism ''

BIRTHS

January 14 - Tom Tryon , actor, novelist

February 15 - Dieter Lattmann , writer and politician

February 20 - Richard Matheson , author

March 31 - John Fowles , writer

April 28 - Harper Lee , US novelist

June 3 - Allen Ginsberg , US poet (+ 1997 )

July 11 - Frederick Buechner , author

August 14 - " Goscinny " (René Goscinny), French writer and co-creator of Asterix

November 20 - John Gardner , British novelist

DEATHS

January 14 – René Boylesve , French author

August 1 - Israel Zangwill , English poet

AWARDS

, ''Adam's Breed''

, ''Shen of the Sea''

, ''Craig's Wife''

, ''What's O'Clock''

, ''Arrowsmith''