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EVENTS
December 25
- ''
A Christmas Carol
'' is read before a
Radio
Audience
for the first time.
Frank Herbert
lies about his age to get his first job as a local
Newspaper
Reporter
.
Jean-Paul Sartre
is
Drafted
into the
French Army
.
Robert A. Heinlein
's first published
Short Story
appears in ''
Astounding Magazine
''.
NEW BOOKS
''
And Then There Were None
'' -
Agatha Christie
''
The Big Sleep
'' -
Raymond Chandler
''
Cahier D'un Retour Au Pays Natal
'' -
Aime Cesaire
''
Children Of God
'' -
Vardis Fisher
''
Coming Up For Air
'' -
George Orwell
''
The Day Of The Locust
'' -
Nathanael West
''
Drums At Dusk
'' -
Arna Wendell Bontemps
''
Files On Parade
'' -
John O'Hara
''
Finnegans Wake
'' -
James Joyce
''
The Gladiators
'' -
Arthur Koestler
''
The Grapes Of Wrath
'' -
John Steinbeck
''
If I Forget Thee Jerusalem (The Wild Palms/Old Man)
'' -
William Faulkner
''
Johnny Got His Gun
'' -
Dalton Trumbo
''
Let Me Breathe Thunder
'' -
William Attaway
''
Listen For The Voices
'' -
Anne Colver
''
Magna
'' -
Zona Gale
''
The Mask Of Dimitrios
'' -
Eric Ambler
''
The Mysterious Mickey Finn
'' -
Elliot Paul
''
Melbourne
'' -
David Cecil
''
Moses, Man Of The Mountain
'' -
Zora Neale Hurston
''
The Nazarene
'' -
Sholem Asch
''
Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats
'' –
T. S. Eliot
''
The Outsider And Others
'' -
H. P. Lovecraft
''
The Patriot
'' -
Pearl S. Buck
''
The Snows Of Kilimanjaro
'' -
Ernest Hemingway
''
Studies In Iconology
'' -
Erwin Panofsky
''
Thimble Summer
'' -
Elizabeth Enright
''
The Tree Of Liberty
'' -
Elizabeth Page
NEW DRAMA
Philip Barry
- ''
The Philadelphia Story
''
T. S. Eliot
- ''
The Family Reunion
''
Lillian Hellman
- ''
The Little Foxes
''
George S. Kaufman
and
Moss Hart
- ''
The Man Who Came To Dinner
''
Clare Boothe Luce
- ''Margin of Error''
BIRTHS
Michael Moorcock
,
British
Science Fiction
Author
January 29
-
Germaine Greer
,
Feminist
author
April 12
-
Alan Ayckbourn
,
Dramatist
June 5
-
Margaret Drabble
,
Novel
ist
August 1
-
Robert James Waller
,
American
novelist
October 6
-
Melvyn Bragg
, novelist, critic and
Television Presenter
October 9
-
John Pilger
,
Journalist
October 10
-
Clive James
, writer,
Humor
ist and
Television Personality
November 17
-
Auberon Waugh
, journalist and son of
Evelyn Waugh
November 18
-
Margaret Atwood
, novelist and
Poet
''date unknown'' -
Ferdinand Mount
, journalist and novelist
''date unknown'' -
Iris Gower
,
Romantic Novelist
''date unknown'' -
Alan Coren
,
Satirist
DEATHS
Solomon Cleaver
, storyteller and novelist
January 28
-
William Butler Yeats
, poet
February 18
-
Okamoto Kanoko
,
Tanka
poet
February 22
-
Antonio Machado
, poet
March 7
-
Ludwig Fulda
March 23
-
Richard Halliburton
, travel writer
April 11
-
S. S. Van Dine
,
Crime Fiction
writer
May 27
-
Joseph Roth
, novelist
June 26
-
Ford Madox Ford
, novelist
July 8
-
Havelock Ellis
, sexual
Psychologist
and controversial writer
September -
Ethel M. Dell
, romantic novelist
September 6
-
Arthur Rackham
,
Book
Illustrator
October 23
-
Zane Grey
, popular author of
Westerns
December 2
-
Llewelyn Powys
,
Biographer
and
Autobiographer
AWARDS
, ''Thimble Summer''
, ''Abe Lincoln in Illinois''
: ''Selected Poems''
- ''The Yearling''