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EVENTS

First issue of the "'' Guinness Book Of Records ''" published.

'' Lolita '' by Vladimir Nabokov is published in Paris. However, it took until 1958 to be published in United States.

An article in the '' British Journal Of Education '' is critical of the novels of Enid Blyton .

Jean Cocteau is elected to both the '' Académie Française and the Royal Academy Of Belgium .

NEW BOOKS

'' The Acceptance World '' - Anthony Powell

'' Andersonville '' - MacKinlay Kantor

'' Auntie Mame '' - Patrick Dennis

'' Bath Tangle '' – Georgette Heyer

'' Birdman Of Alcatraz '' - Thomas E. Gaddis

'' Bonjour Tristesse '' - Françoise Sagan

'' The Chrysalids '' - John Wyndham

'' The Dragon In The Sea '' - Frank Herbert

'' The End Of Eternity '' - Isaac Asimov

'' The Genius And The Goddess '' - Aldous Huxley

'' The Ginger Man '' - J. P. Donleavy

'' Good Country People '' - Flannery O'Connor

'' A Good Man Is Hard To Find '' - Flannery O'Connor

'' Lolita '' - Vladimir Nabokov

'' The Lonely Passion Of Judith Hearne '' - Brian Moore

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

'' The Magician's Nephew '' - C.S. Lewis

'' The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit '' - Sloan Wilson

'' Marjorie Morningstar '' - Herman Wouk

'' Moonraker '' - Ian Fleming

'' No Time For Sergeants '' - Mac Hyman

'' Not As A Stranger '' - Morton Thompson

'' Notes Of A Native Son '' - James Baldwin

'' The October Country '' - Ray Bradbury

'' Pedro Paramo '' - Juan Rulfo

'' The Quiet American '' - Graham Greene

'' Satan In Goray '' - Isaac Bashevis Singer

'' Scuffy The Tugboat '' - Gertrude Crampton

'' Something Of Value '' - Robert Ruark

'' That Uncertain Feeling '' - Kingsley Amis

'' The Story Of A Shipwrecked Sailor (Relato de un náufrago)'' - Gabriel García Márquez

'' The Talented Mr. Ripley '' - Patricia Highsmith

'' Ten North Frederick '' - John O'Hara

'' The Tontine '' - Thomas B. Costain

'' The Tree Of Man '' - Patrick White

'' Tunnel In The Sky '' - Robert A. Heinlein

NEW DRAMA

George Axelrod - '' Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter ''

Tennessee Williams - '' Cat On A Hot Tin Roof ''

NON-FICTION

Walter Lippmann - '' Essays In The Public Philosophy ''

Herbert Marcuse - ''Eros and Civilisation''

BIRTHS

January 12 - Rockne O'Bannon , writer, producer

January 13 - Jay McInerney , writer

February 8 - John Grisham , novelist

June 13 - Larry Mike Garmon , novelist, short story writer

June 20 - Tor Nørretranders , science author

September 6 - Raymond Benson , novelist

November 23 - Steven Brust , Fantasy author

DEATHS

January 20 - Robert P. Tristram Coffin , poet, essayist, novelist

June 19 - Adrienne Monnier , French poet and publisher

August 2 - Wallace Stevens , poet (b. 1879 )

August 12 - Thomas Mann

September 20 - Robert Riskin , dramatist and screenwriter

October 18 - José Ortega Y Gasset , philosopher

''date unknown'' - Constance Holme , novelist and dramatist

AWARDS

, ''The Wheel on the School''

, ''Cat on A Hot Tin Roof''

- ''A Fable''

: ''Collected Poems''