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EVENTS

E. V. Knox replaces Sir Owen Seaman as editor of ''Punch'' magazine.

Samuel Beckett 's first novel, ''Dream of Fair to Middling Women'', is rejected by several publishers.

W. B. Yeats rents a house in Dublin.

The New Poetry ( Thơ Mới ) period began, marked by an article and a poem of Phan Khôi, beginning Modern Literature in Vietnam.

NEW BOOKS

'' 1919 '' - John Dos Passos

'' Black Mischief '' - Evelyn Waugh

'' Brave New World '' - Aldous Huxley

'' A Broken Journey '' - Morley Callaghan

'' Burning Bush '' - Sigrid Undset

'' Christmas Pudding '' - Nancy Mitford

'''' - Rudolph Fisher

'' The Fortress '' - Hugh Walpole

'' The Greater Trumps '' - Charles Williams

'' Guys And Dolls '' - Damon Runyon

'' Infants Of The Spring '' - Wallace Thurman

'' Josephus '' - Lion Feuchtwanger

'' Journey To The East '' - Herman Hesse

'' Journey To The End Of The Night '' - Louis-Ferdinand Céline

'' Le Pur Et L'Impur '' - Colette

'' Light In August '' - William Faulkner

'' Mutiny On The Bounty '' - Charles Norman Hall

'' The Narrow Corner '' - W. Somerset Maugham

'' The Richest Woman In Town '' - Henry Bellamann

'' Satan In Goray '' - Isaac Bashevis Singer

'' The Sheltered Life '' - Ellen Glasgow

'' The Son Avenger '' - Sigrid Undset

'' Sons '' - Pearl S. Buck

''Tarzan and the Leopard Men'' - Edgar Rice Burroughs

'' Three Loves '' - A.J. Cronin

'' Tobacco Road '' - Erskine Caldwell

''Topper Takes a Trip'' - Thorne Smith

'' Waterless Mountain '' - Laura Adams Armer

NEW DRAMA

Elias Canetti - ''Die Hochzeit (The Wedding)''

Noel Coward - '' Design For Living ''

George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber - '' Dinner At Eight ''

Marcel Pagnol - '' Fanny ''

POETRY

W. H. Auden - ''The Orators''

Boris Pasternak - ''The Second Birth''

NON-FICTION

Henri Bergson - ''Les deux sources de la morale et de la religion (The Two Sources of Morality and Religion)''

T. S. Eliot - '' Selected Essays, 1917-1932 ''

John Steinbeck - ''[[Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, With Occasional Reference to History 1929

BIRTHS

January 18 - Robert Anton Wilson , author

February 7 - Gay Talese , author

March 18 - John Updike , novelist and poet

March 31 - John Jakes , blockbuster novelist

May 7 - Jenny Joseph , poet

June 5 - Christy Brown , ''My Left Foot'' author (d. 1981)

August 17 - V. S. Naipaul , novelist

September 7 - Malcolm Bradbury , novelist (d. 2000)

October 27 - Sylvia Plath , poet

''unknown date'' - Troy Kennedy Martin , scriptwriter

DEATHS

January 21 - Lytton Strachey , biographer

February 10 - Edgar Wallace , crime writer

March 16 - Harold Monro , poet

April 20 - Giuseppe Peano , philosopher

April 26 - Hart Crane , poet

May 22 - Augusta, Lady Gregory , dramatist

June 17 - Sir John Quick , politician and author

July 6 - Kenneth Grahame , ''Wind in the Willows'' author

July 20 - René Bazin , novelist

July 22 - J. Meade Falkner , ''Moonfleet'' author

AWARDS

, ''Boomerang''

, ''Waterless Mountain''

, Morrie Ryskind , Ira Gershwin , ''Of Thee I Sing''

: ''The Flowering Stone''

: ''The Good Earth''