1952 In Literature

EVENTS

J. L. Carr takes over as headmaster of Highfields Primary School, Kettering , which will eventually furnish the subject matter for his novel, '' The Harpole Report ''.

November 25 - Agatha Christie's play '' The Mousetrap '' opens in London.

The works of André Gide are placed on the Catholic Church's Index Of Forbidden Books .

Launch of the influential periodical, '' Past And Present ''.

E. E. Cummings is appointed to a Charles Eliot Norton Professorship at Harvard.

Discovery of a lost scientific work by Geoffrey Chaucer entitled ''Equatorie of the Planetis''.

NEW BOOKS

'' Adventures In Two Worlds '' - A.J. Cronin

'' Arrow In The Blue '' - Arthur Koestler

'' A Buyer's Market '' - Anthony Powell

'' Charlotte's Web '' - E.B. White

'' The Currents Of Space '' - Isaac Asimov

'' East Of Eden '' - John Steinbeck

''La Formica Argentina'' - Italo Calvino

'' Foundation And Empire '' - Isaac Asimov

'' Giant '' - Edna Ferber

'' Go Tell It On The Mountain '' - James Baldwin

'' The Gown Of Glory '' - Agnes Sligh Turnbull

'' Heaven And Earth '' - Carlo Coccioli

'' The Hidden Flower '' - Pearl S. Buck

'' The Houses In Between '' - Howard Spring

'' The Invisible Man '' - Ralph Ellison

'' Island Of Desire '' - Edith Templeton

'' Judgment Night '' - C. L. Moore

'' Last Seen Wearing ... '' - Hillary Waugh

'' A Many-splendoured Thing '' - Han Suyin

'' Martha Quest '' - Doris Lessing

'' The Natural '' - Bernard Malamud

'' The Old Man And The Sea '' - Ernest Hemingway

'' The Power Of Positive Thinking '' - Norman Vincent Peale

'' The Rolling Stones '' - Robert A. Heinlein

'' The Saracen Blade '' - Frank Yerby

'' The Silver Chalice '' - Thomas B. Costain

'' The Small Miracle '' - Paul Gallico

'' Steamboat Gothic '' - Frances Parkinson Keyes

'' Vermeer '' - Lawrence Gowing

''The Voyage Of The'' Dawn Treader - C. S. Lewis

NEW DRAMA

Samuel Beckett - '' Waiting For Godot ''

Robertson Davies - '' A Masque Of Aesop ''

Jean-Paul Sartre - '' Les Jeux Sont Faits (The Game is Up)''

NON-FICTION

Aldous Huxley - '' The Devils Of Loudun ''; '' Tomorrow And Tomorrow And Tomorrow ''

Raymond Williams - '' Drama From Ibsen To Eliot ''

BIRTHS

February 19 - Amy Tan , novelist

February 29 - Tim Powers , American fantasy author

March 11 - Douglas Adams , Science Fiction Author

Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, author of Fantasy Novel s under the Penname s Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm

DEATHS

February 7 - Norman Douglas , novelist

February 13 - Josephine Tey , crime novelist

February 19 - Knut Hamsun , author

March 1 - Mariano Azuela , novelist, dramatist and critic

May 26 - Eugene Jolas , writer, literary translator and critic

June 1 - John Dewey , philosopher and psychologist

August 9 - Jeffery Farnol , historical romance novelist

September 29 – George Santayana , writer

November 16 - Charles Maurras , poet

November 23 – Aaro Hellaakoski , Finnish poet

AWARDS

, '' From Here To Eternity ''.

, '' Ginger Pye ''

, ''The Shrike''

- ''The Caine Mutiny''

, ''Collected Poems''

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