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EVENTS

Aldous Huxley is a screenwriter for the movie adaptation of '' Pride And Prejudice ''.

Jean-Paul Sartre is taken prisoner by the Germans.

Robertson Davies joins the Old Vic repertory company.

NEW BOOKS

'' The Corinthian '' – Georgette Heyer

'' Counter-Clockwise '' - John M. Lee

'' Daniel Boone '' - James Daugherty

'' Darkness At Noon '' - Arthur Koestler

'' The Don Flows Home To The Sea '' - Mikhail Sholokov

'' The Earth Is The Lord's '' - Taylor Caldwell

'' Farewell, My Lovely '' - Raymond Chandler

'' The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter '' - Carson McCullers

'' Horton Hatches The Egg '' - Dr. Seuss

'' King's Row '' - Henry Bellamann

'' Last Train Out '' - E. Phillipe Oppenheim

'' The Man Who Loved Children '' - Christina Stead

'' A Mathematician's Apology '' - G. H. Hardy

'' Native Son '' - Richard Wright

'' The Ox-bow Incident '' - Walter Clark

'' Pal Joey '' - John O'Hara

'' Pat The Bunny '' - Dorothy Kunhardt

'' The Power And The Glory '' - Graham Greene

'' Sapphira And The Slave '' - Willa Cather

'' Synthetic Men Of Mars '' - Edgar Rice Burroughs

'' Trouble In July '' - Erskine Caldwell

'' Verdict Of Twelve '' - Raymond Postgate

'' When The Whippoorwill '' - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

NEW DRAMA

Agatha Christie - '' Peril At End House ''

Jean Cocteau - ''Le Bel Indifférent''

NON-FICTION

"Cato" ( Michael Foot and others) - '' Guilty Men ''

A. A. Milne - ''War with Honour''

BIRTHS

January 14 - Sir Trevor Nunn , theatre director

February 4 - George Romero , Horror Movie writer, producer, director

February 29 - Edward Frederic Benson , American writer

March 16 - Bernardo Bertolucci , Italian Writer and Film Director

March 28 - Russell Banks , novelist

April 15 - Jeffrey Archer , novelist

May 7 - Angela Carter , English Magical Realist author

May 8 - Peter Benchley , novelist

May 13 - Bruce Chatwin , travel writer

May 28 - Maeve Binchy , novelist

October 20 - Robert Pinsky , poet

December 5 - Peter Pohl , novelist

DEATHS

January 5 - Humbert Wolfe , poet and epigrammist

January 27 - Isaac Babel , journalist and dramatist

February 29 - E. F. Benson , novelist

March 7 - Edwin Markham , poet

March 10 - Mikhaïl Boulgakov , Russian writer

March 16 - Selma Lagerlöf , writer

March 16 - Thomas Heath , historian and translator

June 10 - Marcus Garvey , journalist and publisher

June 20 - Charley Chase , screenwriter

September - W. H. Davies , poet and ''Supertramp''

December 21 - F Scott Fitzgerald

December 22 - Nathanael West

''date unknown'' - T. O'Conor Sloane , editor of ''Amazing Stories''

AWARDS

, ''Daniel Boone''

Nobel Prize For Literature : not awarded

, ''The Time of Your Life''

: ''Collected Poems''

- '' The Grapes Of Wrath ''