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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''