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EVENTS
Arthur C. Clarke
becomes Assistant Editor of ''
Science Abstracts
''
Bertrand Russell
receives the
Order Of Merit
.
Jean-Paul Sartre
completes his ''Les Chemins de la Liberté (
The Roads To Freedom
)'' trilogy.
NEW BOOKS
''
The Aleph
'' -
Jorge Luis Borges
''
Alien Land
'' -
Willard W. Savoy
''
The Angry Wife
'' -
Pearl S. Buck
''
Beneath The Sky
'' -
Alfred Q. Jarrette
''
Beyond Earth's Gates
'' -
C. L. Moore
''
Bright Leaf
'' -
Foster Fitzsimmons
''
Cannibal
'' -
John Hawkes
''
Crooked House
'' -
Agatha Christie
''
The Dream Merchants
'' -
Harold Robbins
''
The Egyptian
'' -
Mika Waltari
''
Father Of The Bride
'' -
Edward Streeter
''
The Golden Sequence
'' -
Martha E. Von Almedingen
''
The Heat Of The Day
'' -
Elixabeth Bowen
''
King Of The Wind
'' -
Marguerite Henry
''
Let Love Come Last
'' -
Taylor Caldwell
''
Love In A Cold Climate
'' -
Nancy Mitford
''
Male And Female
'' -
Margaret Mead
''
The Man With The Golden Arm
'' -
Nelson Algren
''
Men Of Maize
'' -
Miguel Angel Asturias
''
The Miracles Of The Red Altar Cloth
'' -
Hermann L. Hunter
''
Nineteen Eighty-Four
'' -
George Orwell
''
Pride's Castle
'' -
Frank Yerby
''
A Rage To Live
'' -
John O'Hara
''
The Second Sex
'' -
Simone De Beauvoir
''
To Hell And Back
'' -
Audie Murphy
''
Shane
'' -
Jack Schaefer
''
The Sheltering Sky
'' -
Paul Bowles
''
A Town Like Alice
'' -
Nevil Shute
''
The Trial
'' -
Franz Kafka
''
Trouble With Harry
'' -
Jack Story
NEW DRAMA
T. S. Eliot
- ''
The Cocktail Party
''
Christopher Fry
- ''
The Lady's Not For Burning
''
Jean Genet
- ''
Haute Surveillance
''
Arthur Miller
- ''
Death Of A Salesman
''
NON-FICTION
Marc Bloch
- ''Strange Defeat; a Statement of Evidence Written in 1940''
BIRTHS
January 26
-
Jonathan Carroll
,
American
Author
of
Fantasy Fiction
November 2
-
Lois McMaster Bujold
, American author of
Science Fiction
and
Fantasy
DEATHS
January 11
-
Nelson Doubleday
, U.S. book publisher
February 11
-
Axel Munthe
, Swedish author
April 24
-
Willa Cather
, author
May 6
-
Maurice Maeterlinck
, Belgian poet & playwright
June 10
-
Sigrid Undset
, Nobel Prize winning author
June 14
-
Russell Doubleday
, U.S. author and publisher
August 16
-
Margaret Mitchell
, "Gone with the Wind" author
September 19
-
Will Cuppy
, U.S. humorist
December 7
-
Rex Beach
- U.S. author
December 28
-
Hervey Allen
- U.S. author
AWARDS
, ''King of the Wind''
Nobel Prize For Literature
-
William Faulkner
, ''Death of a Salesman''
, ''Guard of Honor''
, ''Terror and Decorum''