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EVENTS

Arthur Miller marries photographer Inge Morath .

Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell are prosecuted and jailed for defacing library books.

A tape-recorded conversation on science fiction took place between Kingsley Amis , C. S. Lewis and Brian Aldiss in Lewis's rooms at Cambridge.

The works of Pierre Teilhard De Chardin are denounced by the Roman Catholic Church.

Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath separate.

NEW BOOKS

'' Apples Of Gold '' - Jo Petty

'' A Clockwork Orange '' - Anthony Burgess

'' Dearly Beloved '' - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

'' The Drowned World '' - J. G. Ballard

'' The Guns Of August '' - Barbara Tuchman

'' Islans '' - Aldous Huxley

'' The Kindly Ones '' - Anthony Powell

'' King Rat '' - James Clavell

'' Lilies Of The Field '' - William Barrett

'' The Man In The High Castle '' - Philip K. Dick

'' Mother Night '' - Kurt Vonnegut

'' A Murder Of Quality '' - John Le Carré

'' My Life In Court '' - Louis Nizer

'' One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich '' - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

'' One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest '' - Ken Kesey

'' Pale Fire '' - Vladimir Nabokov

'' The Prize '' - Irving Wallace

'' A Prologue To Love '' - Taylor Caldwell

'' Reinhart In Love '' - Thomas Berger

'' The Reivers '' - William Faulkner

'' Seven Days In May '' - Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II

'' Sex And The Single Girl '' - Helen Gurley Brown

'' A Shade Of Difference '' - Allen Drury

'' Ship Of Fools '' - Katherine Anne Porter

''The Slave'' - Isaac Bashevis Singer

'' The Spy Who Loved Me '' - Ian Fleming

'' The Ticket That Exploded '' - William S. Burroughs

'' The Thin Red Line '' - James Jones

'' Travels With Charley '' - John Steinbeck

'' Wise Blood '' - Flannery O'Connor

'' A Wrinkle In Time '' -- Madeleine L'Engle

'' Youngblood Hawke '' - Herman Wouk

NEW DRAMA

Edward Albee - '' Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? ''

Friedrich Dürrenmatt - '' Die Physiker (The Physicists)''

Witold Gombrowicz - '' Historia ''

POETRY

W. H. Auden - '' The Dyer's Hand ''

William Carlos Williams - '' Pictures From Brueghel And Other Poems ''

NON-FICTION

Rachel Carson - '' Silent Spring ''

W. Somerset Maugham - ''Looking Back''

V. S. Naipaul - ''The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies - British, French and Dutch in the West Indies and South America''

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BIRTHS

February 21 - David Foster Wallace , novelist

March 31 - Michal Viewegh , Czech Language writer

October 19 - Tracy Chevalier , novelist

''unknown date'' - Mark Haddon , novelist

''unknown date'' - David Edwards , journalist

''unknown date'' - Sebastian Junger , novelist

DEATHS

February 16 - Frank Prewett , poet

April 24 - Emilio Prados , poet

May 26 - Wilfred Wilson Gibson , poet

June 2 - Vita Sackville-West , poet and gardener

July 6 - William Faulkner , American novelist

July 21 - G. M. Trevelyan , historian

July 27 - Richard Aldington , World War I writer

August 9 - Hermann Hesse , novelist

September 3 - E. E. Cummings , poet

September 23 - Patrick Hamilton , dramatist

December 3 - Dame Mary Gilmore , poet and journalist

AWARDS

, ''The Bronze Bow''

Nobel Prize For Literature - John Steinbeck

, Abe Burrows , ''How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying''

- ''The Edge of Sadness''

: ''Poems''