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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''