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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''