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EVENTS
Writing under the pseudonym of ''Emile Ajar'', author
Romain Gary
becomes the only person ever to win the
Prix Goncourt
twice.
Iris Murdoch
marries
John Bayley
.
Aldous Huxley
marries author
Laura Archera
.
Finished in 1952,
Egyptian
author
Naguib Mahfouz
's ''
Cairo Trilogy
'' (''Palace Walk'', ''Palace of Desire'', ''Sugar Street''), is first published.
First book in the long-running
87th Precinct
series,
Cop Hater
, is first published, written by
Ed McBain
Nineteen-year-old
Hunter S. Thompson
is arrested for robbery.
Sixteen-year-old
Michael Moorcock
becomes editor of ''Tarzan Adventures''.
Jorge Luis Borges
becomes a professor of literature at the
University Of Buenos Aires
.
Martin Gardner
begins his ''Mathematical Games'' column in ''
Scientific American
''.
NEW BOOKS
''
A Thing Of Beauty
'' -
A.J. Cronin
''
Boon Island
'' -
Kenneth Roberts
''
Boy In Darkness
'' -
Mervyn Peake
''
Cairo Trilogy
'' -
Naguib Mahfouz
''
A Certain Smile
'' -
Françoise Sagan
''
Cop Hater
'' -
Ed McBain
''
Crusader's Tomb
'' -
A.J. Cronin
''
Diamonds Are Forever
'' -
Ian Fleming
''
Don't Go Near The Water
'' -
William Brinkley
''
Eloise
'' -
Kay Thompson
''
The Fall
'' (''La Chute'') -
Albert Camus
''
Heike Story
'' -
Eiji Yoshikawa
''
The Last Battle
'' -
C. S. Lewis
''
The Last Hurrah
'' -
Edwin O'Connor
''
The Last Of The Wine
'' -
Mary Renault
''
Lucy Crown
'' -
Irwin Shaw
''
The Mandarins
'' -
Simone De Beauvoir
''
Minority Report
'' -
Philip K. Dick
''
Misty Of Chincoteague
'' -
Marguerite Henry
''
My Family And Other Animals
'' -
Gerald Durrell
''
The Mysterious North
'' -
Pierre Berton
''
The Naked Sun
'' -
Isaac Asimov
''
The Nun's Story
'' -
Kathryn Hulme
''
Palace Walk
'' -
Naguib Mahfouz
''
Peyton Place
'' -
Grace Metalious
''
Pincher Martin
'' -
William Golding
''
Les Racines Du Ciel
'' -
Romain Gary
''
Seize The Day
'' -
Saul Bellow
''
The Sweet Science
'' -
A. J. Liebling
'''' -
C. S. Lewis
''
The Tribe That Lost Its Head
'' -
Nicholas Monsarrat
'''' -
Norman Mailer
''
The Wizard Of Linn
'' -
A. E. Van Vogt
NEW DRAMA
Patrick Dennis
- ''
Auntie Mame
''
Jean Genet
- ''Le balcon (
The Balcony
)''
Hugh Leonard
- ''The Big Birthday Suit''
Saunders Lewis
- ''
Siwan (play)
''
John Osborne
- ''
Look Back In Anger
''
POETRY
''
Aniara
'' -
Harry Martinson
''
Howl And Other Poems
'' -
Allen Ginsberg
BIRTHS
January 2
-
Storm Constantine
March 23
-
Steven Saylor
, historical novelist
May 4
-
David Guterson
, journalist and novelist
May 20
-
Boris Akunin
, novelist and essayist
June 9
-
Patricia Cornwell
, crime novelist
October 9
-
Robert Reed
, science fiction author
October 13
-
Chris Carter
, screenwriter
November 26
-
John McCarthy
, journalist and kidnap victim
''date unknown'' -
James Belich
, historian
''date unknown'' -
Amy Gerstler
, poet
''date unknown'' -
Jack Womack
, novelist
DEATHS
January 14
-
Sheila Kaye-Smith
, novelist
January 31
-
A.A. Milne
, dramatist and children's author
March 30
-
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
, novelist and inventor of the
Clerihew
May 20
-
Max Beerbohm
, humorist
June 22
-
Walter De La Mare
, poet
July 8
-
Giovanni Papini
, essayist, poet, novelist
August 14
-
Bertolt Brecht
, dramatist
September 6
-
Michael Ventris
, linguist
December 13
-
Arthur Grimble
, travel writer
December 25
-
Robert Walser
, novelist
AWARDS
, ''Carry On, Mr. Bowditch''
Nobel Prize For Literature
: Juan Ramón Jiménez
for ''Les racines du ciel''
,
Frances Goodrich
, ''Diary of Anne Frank''
- ''Andersonville''
: ''Poems - North & South''