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EVENTS

Frank Herbert marries Flora Parkinson.

F. Scott Fitzgerald 's unfinished work, '' The Last Tycoon '', is edited and published by Edmund Wilson .

NEW BOOKS

'' Barometer Rising '' - Hugh MacLennan

'' Blood On The Forge '' - William Attaway

'' Call It Courage '' - Armstrong Sperry

'' Curious George '' - H.A. Rey and Margret Rey

'' A Curtain Of Green '' - Eudora Welty

'' Death Comes As The End '' - Agatha Christie

'' Herself Surprised '' - Joyce Cary

'' The Keys Of The Kingdom '' - A.J. Cronin

'' Lest Darkness Fall '' - L. Sprague De Camp (Complete novel)

'' Make Way For Ducklings '' - Robert McCloskey

'' Mildred Pierce '' - James M. Cain

'' Random Harvest '' - James Hilton

'' The Real Life Of Sebastian Knight '' - Vladimir Nabokov

'' The Screwtape Letters '' - C.S. Lewis

'' The Shy Plutocrat '' - E. Phillips Oppenheim

'' The Song Of Bernadette '' - Franz Werfel

'' Under The Cottonwood '' - Katheryn Campbell Graham

'' Up At The Villa '' - W. Somerset Maugham

'' What Makes Sammy Run? '' - Budd Schulberg

'' The Wind From Nowhere '' - Oscar Micheaux

NEW DRAMA

Noel Coward - '' Blithe Spirit ''

BIRTHS

March 13 - Donella Meadows , ''Limits to Growth'' author

April 10 - Paul Theroux , novelist and travel writer

May 19 - Nora Ephron , novelist and screenwriter

June 5 - Spalding Gray , screenwriter and dramatist

June 27 - James P. Hogan , science fiction author

October 2 - John Sinclair , poet

October 4 - Anne Rice , horror/fantasy writer

October 13 - John Snow , cricketer and poet

October 25 - Anne Tyler , novelist

''date unknown'' - Pepetela , novelist

''date unknown'' - Miles Kington , journalist

DEATHS

January 4 - Henri Bergson , writer

January 6 - F. R. Higgins , poet

January 13 - James Joyce , writer

January 23 - John Oxenham , novelist and poet

February 7 - Banjo Paterson , poet

February 9 - Elizabeth Von Arnim , novelist

March 28 - Virginia Woolf , author

June 1 - Hugh Walpole , novelist

June 15 - Evelyn Underhill , poet

August 7 - Rabindranath Tagore , author

November 18 – Émile Nelligan , poet

AWARDS

, ''Call It Courage''

Nobel Prize For Literature : not awarded

, ''There Shall Be No Night''

: ''Sunderland Capture''

Pulitzer Prize For The Novel : ''no award given''