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EVENTS

NEW BOOKS

'' Albert Angelo '' - B.S. Johnson

'' Armageddon '' - Leon Uris

'' Charlie And The Chocolate Factory '' - Roald Dahl

'' Chitty Chitty Bang Bang '' - Ian Fleming

'' The Defense '' - Vladimir Nabokov

'' The Farm Book '' - Jan Pfloog

'' Fortunate Pilgrim '' - Mario Puzo

'' Funeral In Berlin '' - Len Deighton

'' Herzog '' - Saul Bellow

'' The Jealous God '' - John Braine

'' Flowers For Hitler '' - Leonard Cohen

'' Julian '' - Gore Vidal

'' Little Big Man '' - Thomas Berger

'' The Man '' - Irving Wallace

'' The Martyred '' - Richard E. Kim

'' A Moveable Feast '' - Ernest Hemingway

'''' - Dick Gregory

'' One-Dimensional Man '' - Herbert Marcuse

'' A Purple Place For Dying '' - John D. MacDonald

'' Rascal '' - Sterling North

'' The Rector Of Justin '' - Louis Auchincloss

'' Second Generation '' - Raymond Williams

'' Shadow And Act '' - Ralph Ellison

'' Shadow Of A Bull '' - Maia Wojciechowska

'' A Song Of Sixpence '' - A.J. Cronin

'' The Valley Of Bones '' - Anthony Powell

'' When The Lion Feeds '' - Wilbur Smith

'' Why We Can't Wait '' - Martin Luther King, Jr.

'' You Only Live Twice '' - Ian Fleming

'' The Splendid Belt Of Mr. Big '' - Sara Bulette

NEW DRAMA

Brian Friel - '' Philadelphia Here I Come! ''

Joe Orton - '' Entertaining Mr Sloane ''

NON-FICTION

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BIRTHS

March 7 - Bret Easton Ellis , author

July 3 - Joanne Harris , author

DEATHS

January 17 - T.H. White , author

February 3 - Clarence Irving Lewis , philosopher

February 25 - Grace Metalious , writer ''Peyton Place''

April 14 - Rachel Carson , environmentalist author

April 18 - Ben Hecht , screenwriter

August 3 - Flannery O'Connor

August 12 - Ian Fleming , '' James Bond '' author

September 18 - Sean O'Casey , dramatist

December 21 - Carl Van Vechten

AWARDS

See 1964 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

, '' Way Station ''

, ''It's Like This, Cat''

Nobel Prize For Literature - Jean-Paul Sartre

, ''L'Etat sauvage''

, ''L'Opoponax''

Pulitzer Prize For Drama : ''no award given''

Pulitzer Prize For Fiction : no award given

: ''At The End Of The Open Road''

, ''Il male oscuro''