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EVENTS

November 7 - Walker Percy marries Mary Bernice Townsend

'' Animal Farm '' by George Orwell – becomes book of the year in USA

Frederick Buechner receives a Bachelor Of Arts degree from Princeton University .

'' All The King's Men '' by Robert Penn Warren is published.

NEW BOOKS

'' All The King's Men '' - Robert Penn Warren

'' Bridge On The Drina '' - Ivo Andric

'' The Common Sense Book Of Baby And Child Care '' - Benjamin Spock

'' Delta Wedding '' - Eudora Welty

'' I Spit On Your Grave '' - Boris Vian

'' Jule '' - George Wylie Henderson

'' The Littlest Angel '' - Charles Tazewell

'' The Miracle Of The Rose '' - Jean Genet

'' Mr. President '' - Miguel Angel Asturias

'' Mister Roberts '' - Thomas Heggen

'' The Story Of Dorothy Stanfield '' - Oscar Micheaux

'' Strawberry Girl '' - Lois Lenski

'' The Street '' - Ann Lane Petty

'' Then And Now '' - W. Somerset Maugham

NEW DRAMA

Eduardo De Filippo - '' Filumena Marturano ''

Eugene O'Neill - '' The Iceman Cometh ''

J. B. Priestley - '' An Inspector Calls ''

Terence Rattigan - '' The Winslow Boy ''

NON-FICTION

Jean Genet - '' Miracle De La Rose ''

BIRTHS

September 26 - Andrea Dworkin , author

October 1 - Tim O'Brien , novelist

October 11 - Leona Gom , author

October 20 - Elfriede Jelinek , author

October 28 - Sharon Thesen , poet

November 7 - Diane Francis , Canadian journalist and author

December 11 - Ellen Meloy , author

DEATHS

March 1 - Adriana Porter , Wiccan poet

March 19 - Catherine Carswell , novelist and biographer

April 1 - Edward Sheldon , dramatist

May 19 - Booth Tarkington , novelist and dramatist

May 25 - Ernest Rhys , founder of the ''Everyman'' series

June 2 - Carrie Ingalls , newspaper worker and sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder

July 8 - Orrick Glenday Johns , poet & playwright

July 22 - Edward Sperling , humorist

July 27 - Gertrude Stein , poet and dramatist

August 13 - H. G. Wells , ground-breaking science fiction novelist

August 31 - Harley Granville-Barker , actor, dramatist and critic

''unknown date'' - May Sinclair , novelist

AWARDS

, ''Strawberry Girl''

, Howard Lindsay , ''State of the Union''

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

Pulitzer Prize For The Novel : ''no award given''