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EVENTS

E. E. Cummings receives the Shelley Memorial Award for Poetry.

NEW BOOKS

'' An American Dilemma '' - Gunnar Myrdal

'' Au Rendez-vous Allemand '' - (''To the German Rendezvous'') - Paul Éluard

'' A Bell For Adano '' - John Hersey

'' Beyond The Palisade '' (poetry) - James K. Baxter

'' The Book Of Imaginary Beings '' - Jorge Luis Borges

'' Book Of Naturalists '' - Charles William Beebe

'' The Case Of Mrs. Wingate '' - Oscar Micheaux

'' Dangling Man '' - Saul Bellow

'' The Dawn Appears '' - Annie Greene Nelson

'' Friday's Child '' – Georgette Heyer

'' The Golden Fleece '' - Robert Von Ranke Graves

'' The Green Years '' - A.J. Cronin

'' The Horse's Mouth '' - Joyce Cary

'' Johnny Tremain '' - Esther Forbes

'' The Lost Weekend '' - Charles R. Jackson

'' Our Lady Of The Flowers '' - Jean Genet

'' Pippi Longstocking '' - Astrid Lindgren

'' The Razor's Edge '' - W. Somerset Maugham

'' The Tall Book Of Nursery Tales '' - Feodor Rojankovsky

'' Terras Do Sem Fim '' (The Violent Land) - Jorge Amado

'' Thou That Dwellest In The Gardens '' - Hayyim Hazaz

'' Two Frontiers '' (poetry) - Edwin James Bradley

BIRTHS

Witi Ihimaera , New Zealand Māori writer, who was to write "'' The Whale Rider ''"

January 8 - Terry Brooks , writer of Fantasy Fiction

February 10 - Vernor Vinge , Science Fiction Novelist

February 14 - Alan Parker , director, writer

February 14 - Carl Bernstein , journalist

February 16 - Richard Ford , Pulitzer Prize winning novelist

August 30 - Molly Ivins , journalist

December 17 - Jack L. Chalker , science fiction novelist

DEATHS

January 6 - Ida M. Tarbell , journalist

January 31 - Jean Giraudoux , dramatist

February 10 - Israel Joshua Singer , Yiddish novelist

March 5 - Alun Lewis , war poet

March 28 - Stephen Leacock , economist

May 12 - Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch , "Q"

June 9 - Keith Douglas , war poet

June 16 - Marc Bloch , historian

July 31 - Antoine De Saint-Exupery , French pilot and writer

September 13 - W. Heath Robinson , British cartoonist and illustrator

December 30 - Romain Rolland , Nobel Prize winning author

''date unknown'' - Robert Nichols , poet and dramatist

''date unknown'' - Joseph Campbell , poet

''date unknown'' - Ethel Lina White , crime novelist

''date unknown'' - Olive Custance , poet

AWARDS

, ''Johnny Tremain''

Pulitzer Prize For Drama : ''no award given''

, ''Western Star''

, ''Journey in the Dark''