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EVENTS
Aldous Huxley
turns down the offer of a
Knighthood
.
First appearance of
Astérix
the Gaul.
Colin Dexter
begins teaching at Corby Grammar School.
Frank Herbert
begins researching ''Dune''.
Frederik Pohl
becomes editor of ''Galaxy'' magazine.
Marcel Achard
is elected to the
Académie Française
.
NEW BOOKS
''
Advertisement For Myself
'' -
Norman Mailer
''
Advise And Consent
'' -
Allen Drury
''
The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz
'' -
Mordecai Richler
''
The Children Of Gebelaawi
'' -
Naguib Mahfouz
''
Children Of The Wolf
'' -
Alfred Duggan
''
Dear And Glorious Physician
'' -
Taylor Caldwell
''
The Defeat Of The Spanish Armada
'' -
Garett Mattingly
''
Echo In The Skull
'' -
John Brunner
''
Exodus
'' -
Leon Uris
''
Goldfinger
'' -
Ian Fleming
''
Goodbye, Columbus
'' -
Philip Roth
''
The Great Imposter
'' -
Robert Crichton
''
The Haunting Of Hill House
'' -
Shirley Jackson
''
Hawaii
'' -
James A. Michener
''
Henderson The Rain King
'' -
Saul Bellow
''
The Magic Christian
'' -
Terry Southern
''
The Manchurian Candidate
'' -
Richard Condon
''
Mountolive
'' -
Lawrence Durrell
''
Mrs. 'Arris Goes To Paris
'' -
Paul Gallico
''
Naked Lunch
'' -
William S. Burroughs
''
Night Of The Big Heat
'' -
John Lymington
''
Poor No More
'' -
Robert Ruark
''Psycho'' -
Robert Bloch
''
Rape Of The Fair Country
'' -
Alexander Cordell
''The Same Door'' -
John Updike
''
Sink The Bismarck!
'' aka ''The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck'' -
C.S. Forester
''
The Sirens Of Titan
'' -
Kurt Vonnegut
''
Starship Troopers
'' -
Robert A. Heinlein
''
The Tin Drum
'' -
Günter Grass
''
Titus Alone
'' -
Mervyn Peake
''
The Ugly American
'' -
William J. Lederer
and
Eugene L. Burdick
NEW DRAMA
Tennessee Williams
- ''
Sweet Bird Of Youth
''
NON-FICTION
''
The Elements Of Style
'' -
William Strunk Jr.
and
E. B. White
''
The Logic Of Scientific Discovery
'' -
Karl Popper
BIRTHS
May 3
-
Ben Elton
, British comedian and author
October 31
-
Neal Stephenson
- science fiction writer
R. A. Salvatore
,
Science-fiction
and
Fantasy
author
DEATHS
February 28
-
Maxwell Anderson
, playwright, film writer
March 26
-
Raymond Chandler
, American novelist.
June 23
-
Boris Vian
, French novelist
''date unknown'' -
Olga Knipper
, widow of
Anton Chekhov
and star of many of his plays.
AWARDS
Hugo Award
-
James Blish
, ''A Case of Conscience''
, ''The Witch of Blackbird Pond''
, ''J. B.''
, ''The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters''
, ''Selected Poems 1928-1958''