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EVENTS

Dean R. Koontz 's first novel, '' Star Quest '' is published.

NEW BOOKS

'' Airport '' - Arthur Hailey

'' Armies Of The Night '' - Norman Mailer

'' - William Manchester (Pub. Little, Brown, June 1968)

'' Cancer Ward '' - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

'' Cocksure '' - Mordecai Richler

'' Colonel Sun '' - Robert Markham ( Kingsley Amis )

'' Couples '' - John Updike

'' Cousin Kate '' – Georgette Heyer

'' Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? '' - Philip K. Dick

'' The Double Helix '' - James D. Watson

'''' - Charles Rembar

'' The First Circle '' - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

'' I Am Mary Dunne '' - Brian Moore

'' The Ice-Cream Headache And Other Stories '' - James Jones

'' The Military Philosophers '' - Anthony Powell

'' The Money Game '' - Adam Smith

'' Myra Breckinridge '' - Gore Vidal

'' Preserve And Protect '' - Allen Drury

'' The Salzburg Connection '' - Helen McInnes

'' A Small Town In Germany '' - John Le Carré

'' Testimony Of Two Men '' - Taylor Caldwell

NEW DRAMA

Alan Bennett - '' Forty Years On ''

Thomas Kilroy - ''The Death and Resurrection of Mr Roche''

Tom Stoppard - '' The Real Inspector Hound ''

Arthur Symington - '' The Bensons' Hedge ''

POETRY

Rod McKuen - '' Lonesome Cities ''

BIRTHS

January 30 - Rhoda Shipman , comic book writer

''date unknown'' - K. V. Johansen , children's author

DEATHS

January 14 - Dorothea Mackellar , poet

April 16 - Edna Ferber

April 25 - Donald Davidson

May 1 - Harold Nicolson , biographer and husband of Vita Sackville-West

May 30 - Martin Noth , Hebraist

June 1 - Helen Keller

October 13 - Sir Stanley Unwin (publisher)

November 17 - Mervyn Peake , ''Gormenghast'' author

November 25 - Upton Sinclair

December 5 - Anna Kavan

December 20 - John Steinbeck

AWARDS

See 1968 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

, '' Lord Of Light ''

, '' Rite Of Passage ''

, ''From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler''

, ''Les fruits de l'hiver''

, ''Le Mendiant de Jérusalem''

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

, ''The Confessions of Nat Turner''

, ''The Hard Hours''

, ''La controfigura''