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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''