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EVENTS

Lawrence Durrell publishes '' Clea '', the final volume of the four-book collection titled '' The Alexandria Quartet '' that began in 1957 .

August Derleth launches the poetry magazine, ''Hawk and Whippoorwill''.

'' Astounding '' magazine is renamed ''Analog''.

Dalton Trumbo , one of the Hollywood Ten , receives full credit for his work on the films ''Exodus'' and ''Spartacus''.

Hans Freudenthal invents the artificial language, Lincos , intended for communication with alien life forms.

Michael Foot relinquishes the editorship of ''Tribune'' to return to Parliament.

NEW BOOKS

'' Border Country '' - Raymond Williams

'' Casanova's Chinese Restaurant '' - Anthony Powell

'' The Chapman Report '' - Irving Wallace

'' Clea '' - Lawrence Durrell

'' Don't Tell Alfred '' - Nancy Mitford

'' For Your Eyes Only '' - Ian Fleming

'' Green Eggs And Ham '' - Dr. Seuss

'' Hunters In A Narrow Street '' - Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

'' The Insolences Of Brother Anonymous '' – Jean-Paul Desbiens

'' The Many Colored Coat '' - Morley Callaghan

'' Take A Girl Like You '' - Kingsley Amis

'' To Kill A Mockingbird '' - Harper Lee

'' The Torch '' - Wilder Penfield

'' The Violent Bear It Away '' - Flannery O'Connor

'' The White Stone '' - Carlo Coccioli

'' What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? '' - Henry Farrell

NEW DRAMA

Jean Anouilh - '' Becket ''

Robert Bolt - '' A Man For All Seasons ''

Françoise Sagan - ''Château en Suède''

Wole Soyinka - '' A Dance Of The Forests ''

NON-FICTION

Kingsley Amis - '' New Maps Of Hell ''

Hans-Georg Gadamer - '' Truth And Method ''

Helen Keller - '' Light In My Darkness ''

Arthur Koestler - '' The Lotus And The Robot ''

Jean-Paul Sartre - ''Critique de la raison dialectique ( Critique Of Dialectical Reason )''

William L. Shirer - '' The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich ''

Elie Wiesel - '' Night ''

BIRTHS

January 1 - Helen Fielding , author

April 28 - Ian Rankin , crime novelist

May 21 - John O'Brien , novelist (d. 1994)

July 13 - Ian Hislop , satirist

November 10 - Neil Gaiman , author

''date unknown'' - Malcolm Pryce , novelist

DEATHS

January 4 - Albert Camus , novelist (car accident)

January 12 - Nevil Shute , writer

January 14 - Ralph Chubb , poet

January 28 - Zora Neale Hurston

May 30 - Boris Pasternak , novelist and poet

November 28 - Richard Wright , author

AWARDS

, ''Onion John''

, George Abbott for book' Jerry Bock for music, and Sheldon Harnick for lyrics, ''Fiorello!''

- ''Advise and Consent''

: ''Heart's Needle''