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EVENTS

Frank Herbert becomes director-photographer of the television show, ''The Tillers''.

Michael Crichton directs the film, '' Westworld ''.

Robert B. Parker starts the Spenser book series.

NEW BOOKS

'' The Billion Dollar Sure Thing '' – Paul E. Erdman

'' The Black Prince '' - Iris Murdoch

'' Breakfast Of Champions '' - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

'' Burnt Offerings '' - Robert Marasco

'' Burr '' - Gore Vidal

'' The Court-Martial Of Daniel Boone '' - Allan W. Eckert

'' Cromwell, Our Chief Of Men '' - Antonia Fraser

'' Demon Seed '' - Dean R. Koontz

'' The Denial Of Death '' - Ernest Becker

'' Devil Tree '' - Jerzy Kosinski

'' Evening In Byzantium '' - Irwin Shaw

'' Eye Of The Storm '' - Patrick White

'' Fear And Loathing On The Campaign Trail '72 '' - Hunter S Thompson

'' The Godwulf Manuscript '' - Robert B. Parker

'' Gravity's Rainbow '' - Thomas Pynchon

'' The Honorary Consul '' - Graham Greene

'' If I Die In A Combat Zone, Box Me Up And Send Me Home '' - Tim O'Brien

'''' - John Pearson

'' The Matlock Paper '' - Robert Ludlum

'' Momo '' - Michael Ende

'' The Odessa File '' - Frederick Forsyth

'' Once Is Not Enough '' - Jacqueline Susann

'' The Rachel Papers '' - Martin Amis

''The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb'' - Mervyn Peake (posthumous)

''The Stone That Never Came Down'' - John Brunner

'' Sula '' - Toni Morrison

'' Tar Baby '' - Jerome Charyn

'' Temporary Kings '' - Anthony Powell

'' Temptations Of Big Bear '' - Rudy Wiebe

'' There Is A Tree More Ancient Than Eden '' - Leon Forrest

'' A Touch Of Danger '' - James Jones

'' Who Are You? '' - Anna Kavan

BIRTHS

DEATHS

February 22 - Elizabeth Bowen , novelist

March 6 - Pearl S. Buck

March 26 - Sir Noel Coward , dramatist and humorist

April 9 - Warren Lewis , author, Inkling, and brother of C. S. Lewis

April 28 - Jacques Maritain , philosopher

June 9 - John Creasey , author

June 30 - Nancy Mitford , English novelist and biographer

July 29 - Henri Charrière , ''Papillon'' author

September 2 - J. R. R. Tolkien , Fantasy Writer

September 23 - Pablo Neruda , poet

September 29 - W. H. Auden , poet

October 28 - Sergio Tofano , dramatist

December 9 - Anthony Gilbert , crime writer

AWARDS

, ''The Siege of Krishnapur''

See 1973 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

, '' The Gods Themselves ''

, '' Rendezvous With Rama ''

, ''Julie of the Wolves''

, ''L'Ogre''

, ''Paysage de fantaisie''

, ''Life Is Elsewhere''

, ''That Championship Season''

, ''The Optimists Daughter''

, ''Manuale di conversazione''