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EVENTS

November 4 - T.S. Eliot wins the Nobel Prize In Literature .

The Pulitzer Prize For The Novel is renamed the Pulitzer Prize For Fiction

The first volume of Sir Winston Churchill's "'' The Second World War ''" (1948–1953) is published.

A debate between Bertrand Russell and Frederick Copleston on the existence of God is broadcast by the BBC .

NEW BOOKS

'' Ape And Essence - Aldous Huxley

'' Catalina '' - W. Somerset Maugham

'' Concluding '' - Henry Green

'' Cry, The Beloved Country '' - Alan Paton

'' The Foundling '' – Georgette Heyer

'' The Golden Warrior '' - Hope Muntz

'' Guard Of Honor '' - James Gould Cozzens

'' The Heart Of The Matter '' - Graham Greene

'' The Hearth And The Eagle '' - Anya Seton

'' The House Of Sleep '' - Anna Kavan

'' Ides Of March '' - Thornton Wilder

'' John Aubrey And His Friends '' - Anthony Powell

'' Joseph And His Brothers '' - Thomas Mann

'' Last Of The Conquerors '' - William Gardner Smith

'' The Living Is Easy '' - Dorothy West

'' The Mask Of Circe '' - C. L. Moore

'' Melissa (novel) '' - Taylor Caldwell

'' My Glorious Brothers '' - Howard Fast

'' The Naked And The Dead '' - Norman Mailer

'' Parris Mitchell Of King's Row '' - Henry Bellamann

'' Raintree County '' - Ross Lockridge, Jr.

'' Seraph On The Sewanee '' - Zora Neale Hurston

'' Shannon's Way '' - A.J. Cronin

'' Thidwick The Big-Hearted Moose '' - Dr. Seuss

'' The Twenty-One Balloons '' - William Pène Du Bois

'' The White Goddess '' - Robert Graves

'' The World Is Not Enough '' - Zoe B. Oldenbourg

'' The Young Lions '' - Irwin Shaw

NEW DRAMA

Robertson Davies - ''Overlaid''

Terence Rattigan - '' The Browning Version ''

Jean-Paul Sartre - '' Les Mains Sales (Dirty Hands)''

SHORT STORIES

" The Lottery " - Shirley Jackson

NON-FICTION

'' A Russian Journal '' - John Steinbeck

'' The American Political Tradition '' - Richard Hofstadter

'' The Endochronic Properties Of Resublimated Thiotimoline '' - Isaac Asimov

''The Norman Church'' - A. A. Milne

BIRTHS

January 1 - Lynn Abbey , writer

February 5 - Christopher Guest , actor, writer, director, composer

February 28 - Mike Figgis , director, writer, composer

February 29 - Patricia A. McKillip , Author of Fantasy and Science Fiction Novel s

March 17 - William Gibson , writer

April 4 - Dan Simmons , American author of science fiction, Horror and fantasy

April 28 - Terry Pratchett , English Fantasy Author

September 20 - George R. R. Martin , Fantasy writer

October 17 - Robert Jordan , Fantasy writer

DEATHS

March 6 - Ross Lockridge, Jr. , author of '' Raintree County ''

March 10 - Zelda Fitzgerald , novelist and wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald

April 22 - Prosper Montagné , chef, author of '' Larousse Gastronomique ''

June 21 - Alice Brown , novelist, poet and dramatist

July 5 - Georges Bernanos , novelist

July 21 - J.-H. Rosny Jeune , science fiction pioneer

July 27 - Susan Glaspell , dramatist and novelist

August 3 - Venetia Stanley , recipient of the Asquith letters

August 19 - Frederick Philip Grove , novelist and essayist

September 9 - Lajos Biró , novelist, dramatist and screenwriter

December 13 - Michael Roberts , poet and critic

AWARDS

, ''The Twenty-One Balloons''

, ''A Streetcar Named Desire''

- ''Tales of the South Pacific''

: ''The Age of Anxiety''