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EVENTS
NEW BOOKS
''
August 1914
'' -
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
''
Beyond Apollo
'' -
Barry N. Malzberg
''
Captains And The Kings
'' -
Taylor Caldwell
''
Charlie And The Great Glass Elevator
'' -
Roald Dahl
''
Die The Long Day
'' -
Horace Orlando Patterson
''
Endurance
'' -
James L Harris
''
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
'' -
Hunter S. Thompson
''
The Gods Themselves
'' -
Isaac Asimov
''
The Great Bridge
'' -
David McCullough
''
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
'' -
Richard Bach
''
Lady Of Quality
'' –
Georgette Heyer
''
The Manticore
'' -
Robertson Davies
''
My Name Is Asher Lev
'' -
Chaim Potok
''
The Odessa File
'' -
Frederick Forsyth
''
The Osterman Weekend
'' -
Robert Ludlum
''
The Politics Of Jesus
'' -
John Howard Yoder
''
Semi-Tough
'' -
Dan Jenkins
''
Two From Galilee
'' -
Marjorie Holmes
''
The Word
'' -
Irving Wallace
''
Watership Down
'' -
Richard Adams
NEW DRAMA
Alan Ayckbourn
- ''
Absurd Person Singular
''
BIRTHS
September 6
-
China Miéville
,
English
writer
DEATHS
February 15
-
Edgar Snow
, journalist
March 9
-
Violet Trefusis
, English writer and lover of
Vita Sackville-West
April -
Laurence Manning
, science fiction author
May 22
-
Cecil Day-Lewis
, Poet Laureate
June 24
-
R. F. Delderfield
, novelist and historian
August 22
-
Ernestine Hill
, travel writer
September 21
-
Henry De Montherlant
, essayist
September 27
-
S. R. Ranganathan
, influential librarian
December 10
-
Mark Van Doren
, poet
December 13
-
L. P. Hartley
, novelist
December 23
-
Abraham Joshua Heschel
, theologian
''date unknown'' -
Richard Church
, poet and novelist
AWARDS
, ''
G.
''
See
1972 Governor General's Awards
for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Carnegie Medal
: Richard Adams, ''Watership Down''
, ''
To Your Scattered Bodies Go
''
, ''
The Gods Themselves
''
, ''Mrs. Frisbee and the Rats of NIMH''
, ''L'Epervier de Maheux''
, ''Le Tiers des étoiles''
Pulitzer Prize For Drama
: ''no award given''
- ''Angle of Repose''
, ''Collected Poems''
, ''Il bottone di Stalingrado''