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EVENTS

January 9 - The first issue of '' Look Magazine '' goes on sale in the United States .

NEW BOOKS

'' The Citadel '' - A.J. Cronin

'' Death On The Nile '' - Agatha Christie

'' Diary Of A Country Priest '' - Georges Bernanos

'' The Face On The Cutting-Room Floor '' - Cameron McCabe

'' The Hobbit '' - J. R. R. Tolkien

'' Life And Death Of A Spanish Town '' - Elliot Paul

'' Light Woman '' - Zona Gale

'' More Joy In Heaven '' - Morley Callaghan

'' Of Mice And Men '' - John Steinbeck

'' The Old Bunch '' - Meyer Levin

'' Out Of Africa '' - Isak Dinesen

'' Roller Skates '' - Ruth Sawyer

'' Star Maker '' - Olaf Stapledon

'' Their Eyes Were Watching God '' - Zora Neale Hurston

'' These Low Grounds '' - Waters Edward Turpin

'' Uncommon Danger '' - Eric Ambler

'' The Years '' - Virginia Woolf

NEW DRAMA

J. B. Priestley - '' Time And The Conways ''

NON-FICTION

Walter Lippmann - '' The Good Society ''

Napoleon Hill - '' Think And Grow Rich ''

BIRTHS

January 1 - John Fuller , poet

January 7 - Ian La Frenais , TV comedy writer

January 9 - Judith Krantz , bestselling novelist

February 21 - Jilly Cooper , novelist and journalist

April 29 - Jill Paton Walsh , novelist

May 8 - Thomas Pynchon , novelist

May 13 - Roger Zelazny , American writer of Fantasy and Science Fiction

May 13 - Roch Carrier , novelist and short-story writer

June 16 - Erich Segal , ''Love Story'' author

July 3 - Tom Stoppard , dramatist

August 5 - Carla Lane , comedy writer

September 5 - Dick Clement , TV comedy writer

November 17 - Peter Cook , comedian, satirist and writer

''date unknown'' - Jan Karon , novelist

''date unknown'' - Roger McGough , poet

''date unknown'' - Richard Ingrams , editor

DEATHS

March 15 - H. P. Lovecraft , horror writer

June 19 - J. M. Barrie , novelist and dramatist

August 11 - Edith Wharton , writer

October 31 - Ralph Connor , novelist

December 24 - Elizabeth Haldane

December 26 - Ivor Gurney , war poet

December 29 - Don Marquis , poet

''date unknown'' - H. C. McNeile ("Sapper"), "Bulldog Drummond" novelist

''date unknown'' - Gerald Duckworth , publisher

AWARDS

, ''Highland River''

, ''Roller Skates''

, George S. Kaufman , ''You Can't Take It With You''

: ''A Further Range''

- '' Gone With The Wind ''