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EVENTS

E. E. Cummings is awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship .

Flannery O'Connor is diagnosed with Lupus .

Anthony Powell produces the first novel of his '' A Dance To The Music Of Time '' duodecalogy.

Arthur C. Clarke writes ''The Sentinel'', an unpublished story that will form the basis for ''2001''.

First appearance of '' Dennis The Menace '' in '' The Beano ''.

Janie Moore, C. S. Lewis 's adoptive mother, dies.

James Clavell marries actress, April Stride, who introduces him to the movie business.

Joe Orton enters RADA .

NEW BOOKS

'' The Balance Wheel '' - Taylor Caldwell

'' The Blessing '' - Nancy Mitford

'' Boy At The Window '' - Owen Dodson

'' The Caine Mutiny '' - Herman Wouk

'' The Catcher In The Rye '' - J.D. Salinger

'' The Cruel Sea '' - Nicholas Monsarrat

'' The Daughter Of Time '' - Josephine Tey

'' The Day Of The Triffids '' - John Wyndham

'' Foundation '' - Isaac Asimov

'' The Foundling '' - Cardinal Spellman

'' From Here To Eternity '' - James Jones

''Galactic Storm'' - Gill Hunt

'' Lie Down In Darkness '' - William Styron

''Log from the Sea of Cortez'' - John Steinbeck

'' The Loved And The Lost '' - Morley Callaghan

''Mémoires d'Hadrien'' - Marguerite Yourcenar

'' Moses '' - Sholem Asch

'' My Cousin Rachel '' - Daphne Du Maurier

'' Prince Caspian '' - C. S. Lewis

'' The Puppet Masters '' - Robert A. Heinlein

'' A Question Of Upbringing '' - Anthony Powell

'' Return To Paradise '' - James A. Michener

'' The Rustlers Of The West Fork '' - Louis L'Amour

'' Spartacus '' - Howard Fast

'' The Stars Like Dust '' - Isaac Asimov

'' Tempest-Tost '' - Robertson Davies

'' The Wanderer '' - Mika Waltari

'' A Woman Called Fancy '' - Frank Yerby

NEW DRAMA

A. A. Milne - ''Before the Flood''

Jean-Paul Sartre - ''Le diable et le bon dieu ( The Devil And The Good Lord )''

Tennessee Williams - '' The Rose Tattoo ''

Peter Wessel Zapffe - '' Den Fortapte Sønn , En dramatisk gjenfortælling (The lost son, a dramatic renarration)''

BIRTHS

August 20 - Greg Bear , Science Fiction Author

August 24 - Orson Scott Card , Science Fiction Author

September 20 - Javier Marías , Spanish novelist

December 22 - Charles De Lint , Canadian Fantasy author and Celtic Folk Musician

DEATHS

January 7 - René Guénon , philosophical writer

February 7 - Sinclair Lewis , novelist

February 13 - Lloyd C. Douglas , author

February 19 - André Gide , author

March 14 - Algernon Blackwood , writer

March 25 - Oscar Micheaux , African-American , author & filmmaker

April 29 - Ludwig Wittgenstein , philosopher

June 11 - W. C. Sellar , humorist (''1066 and All That'')

August 14 - William Randolph Hearst , newspaper tycoon

September 2 - Antoine Bibesco , dramatist

December 4 - Pedro Salinas , poet

December 10 - Algernon Blackwood , short story author

AWARDS

, ''Amos Fortune, Free Man''

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

, ''The Town''

, ''Complete Poems''