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EVENTS

'' Life Magazine '' is first published

NEW BOOKS

'' The Allegory Of Love '' - C. S. Lewis

'' The Big Money '' - John Dos Passos

'' Black Thunder '' - Arna Wendell Bontemps

'' The Brothers Ashkenazi '' - Israel Joshua Singer

'' Caddie Woodlawn '' - Carol Ryrie Brink

'' The Dark Frontier '' - Eric Ambler

'' Dark Metropolis '' - Arthur Joseph

'' Death On The Installment Plan '' - Louis-Ferdinand Céline

'' Double Indemnity '' - James M. Cain

'' Drums Along The Mohawk '' - Walter D. Edmonds

'' Gone With The Wind '' - Margaret Mitchell

'' The Gray Man Walks '' - Henry Bellamann

'' The House In Paris '' - Elizabeth Bowen

'' In Dubious Battle '' - John Steinbeck

'' Jamaica Inn '' - Daphne Du Maurier

'' John Dawn '' - Robert P. Tristram Coffin

'' The Lady In The Morgue '' - Jonathan Latimer

'' The Long Night '' - Andrew Lytle

'' Nobody's Buddy '' - John A. Moroso

'' Not Under Forty '' - Willa Cather

'' Now That April's Here And Other Stories '' - Morley Callaghan

'' Otto At Sea '' - William Pène Du Bois

'' Quel Homme Es-tu '' - André Billy

'' The Trainee Man '' - Gottfried Benn

'' We The Living '' - Ayn Rand

NEW DRAMA

'' and '' Present Laughter ''

Federico García Lorca - ''Doña Rosita la soltera''

Clare Boothe Luce - '' The Women ''

BIRTHS

January 10 - Stephen Ambrose , controversial historian

January 22 - Joseph Wambaugh , author

February 18 - Jean M. Auel , ''Earth's Children'' author

May 16 - Kenneth Geist, "Pictures Will Talk" - author, critic

Ian Kennedy Martin

June 23 - Richard Bach , ''Jonathan Livingston Seagull'' author

July 22 - Tom Robbins , novelist

August 24 - A. S. Byatt , novelist

October 5 - Václav Havel , dramatist and first president of the Czech Republic

November 17 - John Wells , satirical writer and actor

November 20 - Don DeLillo , United States novelist

''date unknown'' - Andrew Davies , TV and film writer

''date unknown'' - Duff Hart-Davis , biographer and journalist

''date unknown'' - J. H. Prynne , poet

DEATHS

January 18 - Rudyard Kipling , British writer - Nobel Prize for literature ( 1907 )

March 16 - Marguerite Durand , journalist

April 30 - A. E. Housman , poet

June 11 - Robert E. Howard , American Fantasy writer (suicide)

June 12 - M. R. James , writer of ghost stories

June 14 - G. K. Chesterton , author

June 14 - Maxim Gorky , dramatist

August 19 - Federico García Lorca , dramatist and poet

November 12 - Stefan Grabinski , "the Polish Poe"

December 10 - Luigi Pirandello , dramatist and novelist

December 28 - John Cornford , Communist poet

Grazia Deledda , Sardinia n ( Italy ) Writer - Nobel Prize for literature ( 1926 )

AWARDS

, ''South Riding''

, ''Caddie Woodlawn''

, ''Idiots Delight''

: ''Strange Holiness''

- ''Honey in the Horn''