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EVENTS

August 18 - Vladimir Nabokov 's controversial novel '' Lolita '' is published in United States.

First volume of ''The Civil War'' by Shelby Foote is published.

Rumours of a library ban on Enid Blyton 's books in New Zealand .

Herbert Marcuse begins teaching at Brandeis University .

Jack Kerouac writes and narrates the "beat" movie, '' Pull My Daisy ''.

Ken Kesey is awarded a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship to enrol in the creative writing program at Stanford University .

Mervyn Peake begins to develop Parkinson's Disease .

NEW BOOKS

'' The Affluent Society '' - John Kenneth Galbraith

'' Anatomy Of A Murder '' - Robert Traver

'' Around The World With Auntie Mame '' - Patrick Dennis

'' Balthazar '' - Lawrence Durrell

'' Bird Of Fire '' - Helen White

'' Breakfast At Tiffany's '' - Truman Capote

'' Candy '' - Maxwell Kenton

'' Crazy In Berlin '' - Thomas Berger

'' Culture And Society 1780-1950 '' - Raymond Williams

'' The Dharma Bums '' - Jack Kerouac

'' Dr. No '' - Ian Fleming

'' The Enemy Camp '' - Jerome Weidman

'' The Fly '' - James Clavell

'' A Fly Went By '' - Mike McClintock

'' From The Terrace '' - John O'Hara

'' I Like It Here '' - Kingsley Amis

'' Ice Palace '' - Edna Ferber

'' The Innkeeper's Wife '' - A.J. Cronin

'' The Leopard '' - Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

'' Masters Of Deceit '' - J. Edgar Hoover

'' The Northern Light '' - A.J. Cronin

'' Our Man In Havana '' - Graham Greene

'' Playback '' - Raymond Chandler

'' Red Alert '' - Peter George

'' Venetia '' – Georgette Heyer

'' Victorine '' - Frances Parkinson Keyes

'' The Winthrop Woman '' - Anya Seton

'' Things Fall Apart '' - Chinua Achebe

'' Yertle The Turtle And Other Stories '' - Dr. Seuss

'' Young Caesar '' - Rex Warner

NEW DRAMA

Samuel Beckett - '' Krapp's Last Tape ''

Harold Pinter - '' The Caretaker ''

Tennessee Williams - '' Suddenly, Last Summer ''

NON-FICTION

Aldous Huxley - ''Brave New World Revisited''

Claude Lévi-Strauss - ''Structural Anthropology''

John Steinbeck - '' Once There Was A War ''

BIRTHS

June 10 - James F. Conant , philosopher

DEATHS

February 4 - Henry Kuttner , Science Fiction author

March 21 - Cyril M. Kornbluth , science fiction writer

March 24 - Seamus O'Sullivan , poet

April 7 - Elliot Paul , American writer

May 5 - James Branch Cabell , Fantasy Fiction author

June 28 - Alfred Noyes , poet

September 11 - Robert W. Service , poet

October 24 - George Edward Moore , philosopher

October 30 - Rose Macaulay , novelist

AWARDS

, ''Rifles for Watie''

, ''Look Homeward, Angel''

- ''A Death In The Family''

: ''Promises: Poems 1954-1956''