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EVENTS

NEW BOOKS

'' Beggar Maid '' - Alice Munro

'' Bloodlines '' - Sidney Sheldon

'' Bright Flows The River '' - Taylor Caldwell

'' Chesapeake '' - James A. Michener

'' Coup '' - John Updike

'''' - Samuel R. Delany

'' Evergreen '' - Belva Plain

'' Eye Of The Needle '' - Ken Follett

'' Fools Die '' - Mario Puzo

'' Going After Cacciato '' - Tim O'Brien

'' A Good School '' - Richard Yates

'' Hail The Conquering Hero '' - Frank Yerby

'' The Holcroft Covenant '' - Robert Ludlum

'' Illusions '' - Richard Bach

'' An Imaginary Life '' - David Malouf

'' In My Father's House '' - Ernest J.Gaines

'' Jake's Thing '' - Kingsley Amis

'' The Judas Goat '' - Robert B. Parker

'' Murder At The Margin '' - Marshall Jevons

'' Night Shift '' - Stephen King (collection of Short Stories , most previously published elsewhere)

'' Running Dogs '' - Don DeLillo

'' Scruples '' - Judith Krantz

'' Second Generation '' - Howard Fast

'' The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You '' - Harry Harrison

'' The Stories Of John Cheever '' - John Cheever

'' Success '' - Martin Amis

'' A Swiftly Tilting Planet '' - Madeleine L'Engle

'' That Vanderbilt Woman '' - Philip Van Rensselaer

'' War And Remembrance '' - Herman Wouk

'' The Wolfen '' - Whitley Strieber

'' The World According To Garp '' - John Irving

'' Young Adolf '' - Beryl Bainbridge

'' The Ends Of Power '' - H. R. Haldeman

NEW DRAMA

David Hare - '' Plenty ''

Ira Levin - '' Deathtrap ''

Mary O'Malley - '' Once A Catholic ''

NON-FICTION

Roger Caron - '' Go-Boy! Memories Of A Life Behind Bars ''

Richard Nixon - '' The Memoirs Of Richard Nixon ''

Christina Crawford - '' Mommie Dearest ''

BIRTHS

DEATHS

January 12 - Robert Harbin , author of many books on Origami

March 1 - Paul Scott , ''Raj Quartet'' author

March 24 - Leigh Brackett , science fiction writer

April 14 - F. R. Leavis , literary critic

May 1 - Sylvia Townsend Warner , poet and novelist

May 12 - Louis Zukofsky , modernist poet

September 15 - Edmund Crispin , crime writer

September 28 - Pope John Paul I , author of ''Illustrissimi'' under his real name of Albino Luciani

November 15 - Margaret Mead , anthropologist and author

''date unknown'' - Walter C. Alvarez , medical author

AWARDS

, '' The Sea, The Sea ''

See 1978 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

, '' Dreamsnake ''

, ''Bridge to Terabithia''

, ''Rue des boutiques obscures''

, ''La vie mode d'emploi''

, ''L’Avenir radieux'' - Russia

, ''The Gin Game''

, ''Elbow Room''

, ''Collected Poems''

, ''Dopo il presidente''