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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''