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EVENTS
November 1
- The magazine ''
Ebony
'' is published for the first time.
Noel Coward
's short play, ''Still Life'', is adapted to become the film, ''
Brief Encounter
''.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
is sentenced to eight years in a labour camp for criticism of Stalin.
The novelist
Colette
becomes president of the
Académie Goncourt
.
Vladimir Nabokov
becomes a naturalized citizen of the USA.
André Malraux
is appointed minister of information by French President
Charles De Gaulle
.
NEW BOOKS
''
The Age Of Jackson
'' -
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
''
The Age Of Reason
'' -
Jean-Paul Sartre
''
Animal Farm
'' -
George Orwell
''
Black Boy
'' -
Richard Wright
''
The Black Rose
'' -
Thomas B. Costain
''
Bonheur D'occasion
'' (''The Tin Flute'') -
Gabrielle Roy
''
The Bosnian Trilogy
'' -
Ivo Andric
''
Brideshead Revisited
'' -
Evelyn Waugh
''
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept
'' -
Elizabeth Smart
''
Cannery Row
'' -
John Steinbeck
''
The Egyptian
'' -
Mika Waltari
''
Gigi
'' -
Colette
''
High Ground
'' -
Odella Phelps Wood
''
Loving
'' -
Henry Green
''
Night Has A Thousand Eyes
'' -
Cornell Woolrich
''
The Naked And The Dead
'' -
Norman Mailer
''
The Open Society And Its Enemies
'' -
Karl Popper
''
The Policy King
'' -
Lewis A. H. Caldwell
''
The Pursuit Of Love
'' -
Nancy Mitford
''
Rabbit Hill
'' -
Robert Lawson
''
A Street In Bronzeville
'' -
Gwendolyn Brooks
''
Stuart Little
'' -
E.B. White
''
Surrender On Demand
'' -
Varian Fry
''
That Hideous Strength
'' -
C. S. Lewis
''
The Thurber Carnival
'' (anthology) -
James Thurber
''
Tootle
'' -
Gertrude Crampton
''
Two Solitudes
'' -
Hugh MacLennan
''
The Wide House
'' -
Taylor Caldwell
NEW DRAMA
Bertolt Brecht
- ''
Caucasian Chalk Circle
''
Mary Chase
- ''
Harvey
''
Arthur Laurents
- ''Home of the Brave''
NON-FICTION
Arthur Koestler
- ''The Yogi and the Commissar and other essays''
BIRTHS
January 3
-
David Starkey
, historian
January 30
-
Michael Dorris
, author (+
1997
)
April 2
-
Anne Waldman
, poet
April 27
-
August Wilson
, playwright
April 30
-
Annie Dillard
July 9
-
Dean R. Koontz
, novelist
October 15
-
John Murrell
, dramatist
Raymond E. Feist
,
American
Fantasy
Author
''date unknown'' -
Jacqueline Wilson
, best-selling children's author
''date unknown'' -
Robert Gray
, poet
''date unknown'' -
Shiva Naipaul
, novelist
DEATHS
January 13
-
Margaret Deland
, novelist
January 22
-
Else Lasker-Schuler
, poet (---
1869
)
March 12
-
Anne Frank
, author of
The Diary Of Anne Frank
, at
Bergen-Belsen
Concentration Camp
March 20
-
Lord Alfred Douglas
, poet and former lover of
Oscar Wilde
April 9
-
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
, theologian (---
1906
, murdered by
German Nationalsozialists
)
May 15
-
Charles Williams
, British author
July 13
-
Alla Nazimova
, actress, scriptwriter and producer
August 20
-
Alexander Roda Roda
, novelist
August 26
-
Franz Werfel
, German language writer
October 8
-
Felix Salten
, author of ''Bambi''
November 21
-
Robert Benchley
, humorist
December 4
-
Arthur Morrison
, writer
December 28
-
Theodore Dreiser
, author
''date unknown'' -
Charles Gilman Norris
, novelist
''date unknown'' -
Charles Maurice Donnay
, dramatist
AWARDS
, ''Rabbit Hill''
, ''Harvey''
, ''V-Letter and Other Poems''
, ''A Bell for Adano''