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EVENTS

Jack Kerouac reads Dwight Goddard 's ''A Buddhist Bible'', which will influence him greatly.

John Updike graduates from Harvard with a thesis on George Herbert .

Lawrence Quincy Mumford becomes Librarian of Congress.

NEW BOOKS

'' The Acrobats '' - Mordecai Richler

'' Benton's Row '' - Frank Yerby

'' The Bridge On The River Kwai '' (''Le pont de la rivière Kwai'') - Pierre Boulle

'' The Caves Of Steel '' - Isaac Asimov

'' The Egyptian '' - Mika Waltari

'' Histoire D'O '' (''Story of O'') - Pauline Réage

'' The Horse And His Boy '' - C. S. Lewis

'' Horton Hears A Who! '' - Dr. Seuss

'' I Am Legend '' - Richard Matheson

''Jean Sauteuil'' - Marcel Proust (posthumously published)

'' Katherine '' - Anya Seton

'' Leaven Of Malice '' - Robertson Davies

'' Live And Let Die '' - Ian Fleming

'' Lord Of The Flies '' - William Golding

'''' - J. R. R. Tolkien

'''' - J. R. R. Tolkien

'' Love Is Eternal '' - Irving Stone

'' Lucky Jim '' - Kingsley Amis

'' The Mandarins '' - Simone De Beauvoir

'' The Magicians '' - J.B. Priestley

'' Mary Anne '' - Daphne Du Maurier

'' Mr. Hobbs' Vacation '' - Edward Streeter

'' Nectar In A Sieve '' - Kamala Markandaya

'' Never Victorious, Never Defeated '' - Taylor Caldwell

'' No Time For Sergeants '' - Mac Hyman

'' Not As A Stranger '' - Morton Thompson

'' The Royal Box '' - Frances Parkinson Keyes

'' Sayonara '' - James A. Michener

'' Sweet Thursday '' - John Steinbeck

'' Under The Net '' - Iris Murdoch

'' The View From Pompey's Head '' - Hamilton Basso

NEW DRAMA

Brendan Behan - '' The Quare Fellow ''

Terence Rattigan - '' Separate Tables ''

Dylan Thomas - '' Under Milk Wood ''

Thornton Wilder - '' The Matchmaker ''

NON-FICTION

Albert Einstein - '' Ideas And Opinions ''

Aldous Huxley - '' The Doors Of Perception ''

Arthur Koestler - ''The Invisible Writing: The Second Volume Of An Autobiography, 1932-40''

Mervyn Peake - ''Figures of Speech''

BIRTHS

January 29 - Oprah Winfrey , actress, Talk Show host, producer, publisher

February 6 - Argusto Emfazie , occultist, author

June 28 - A. A. Gill , journalist and critic

November - Christopher Pike , children's author

Esther Delisle , Quebec author & historian

DEATHS

January 1 - Duff Cooper (1st Viscount Norwich), poet, biographer and politician

January 25 - M. N. Roy , philosopher and politician

March 28 - Francis Brett Young , novelist and poet

April 8

--- Juan Álvarez , historian

--- Winnifred Eaton , Canadian author

April 19 - Russell Davenport , journalist and publisher

May 3 - Earnest Hooton , popular writer on anthropology

August 3 - Colette , French novelist

September 19 - Miles Franklin , novelist

September 29 - W. J. Gruffydd , editor of ''Y Llenor (Literature)''

December 6 - Lucien Tesnière , grammarian

AWARDS

, ''And Now Miguel''

, ''The Teahouse of the August Moon''

Pulitzer Prize For Fiction : no award given

: ''The Waking''