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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''
''
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''