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EVENTS

André Gide leaves France to live in Tunis.

Robertson Davies becomes editor of the '' Peterborough Examiner ''.

Thomas Mann emigrates to California.

James Hilton wins an Oscar for the screenplay of '' Mrs. Miniver ''.

New York Times launches influential Best Seller List .

NEW FICTION BOOKS

'' After The Storm '' - Annie Greene Nelson

'' And Now Tomorrow '' - Rachel Field

'' Beyond This Horizon '' - Robert A. Heinlein

'' Black Alibi '' - Cornell Woolrich

'' Black Lamb And Grey Falcon '' - Rebecca West

'' Cross Creek '' - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

'' David '' - Earl Birney

'' Five Little Pigs '' - Agatha Christie

'' Floods Of Spring '' - Henry Bellamann

'' Frenchman's Creek '' - Daphne Du Maurier

'' The Man Without Qualities '' - Robert Musil

'' The Matchlock Gun '' - Walter D. Edmonds

'' Picketing Hell '' - Adam Clayton Powell, Sr.

'' Pierrot Mon Ami '' - Raymond Queneau

'' The Poky Little Puppy '' - Janette Sebring Lowrey

'' The Robe '' - Lloyd C. Douglas

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

'' The Stranger '' (''L'Étranger'') - Albert Camus

'' The Strong City '' - Taylor Caldwell

'' To Be A Pilgrim '' - Joyce Cary

'' West With The Night '' - Beryl Markham

NON-FICTION

'' The Last Time I Saw Paris '' - Elliot Paul

'' The Art Of Seeing '' - Aldous Huxley

'' A Preface To Paradise Lost '' - C. S. Lewis

NEW DRAMA

'' Antigone '' - Jean Anouilh

'' Niels Ebbesen '' - Kaj Munk

'' A Touch Of The Poet '' - (not performed until 1958) - Eugene O'Neill

POETRY

T. S. Eliot - '' Little Gidding ''

BIRTHS

January 31 - Derek Jarman , director, writer (+ 1994 )

February 1 - Terry Jones , comedian and writer

March 2 - John Irving , novelist

April 1 - Samuel R. Delany , novelist and critic

April 4 - Kitty Kelley , journalist and biographer

April 6 - Barry Levinson , screenwriter, director and producer

July 17 - Tim Brooke-Taylor , comedy writer and actor

August 2 - Isabel Allende , novelist

August 7 - Garrison Keillor , ''Lake Wobegon Days'' author

October 23 - Michael Crichton , author

October 23 - Douglas Dunn , poet

December 6 - Peter Handke , Austrian novelist

''date unknown'' - Gladys Cardiff , poet

''date unknown'' - Craig Thomas , novelist

DEATHS

April 24 - Lucy Maud Montgomery , ''Anne of Green Gables'' novelist

June - Moses Annenberg , publisher

September 19 - Condé Nast , magazine publisher

October 20 - Friedrich Münzer , classical scholar

''date unknown'' - Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson , ''Greyfriars Bobby'' author

''date unknown'' - Konstantin Balmont , poet

AWARDS

, ''The Matchlock Gun''

Nobel Prize For Literature : ''not awarded''

Pulitzer Prize For Drama : ''not awarded''

, ''The Dust Which Is God''

, ''In This Our Life''