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The year 1943 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

EVENTS

George Orwell resigns from the BBC to become literary editor of ''Tribune''.

Isaac Bashevis Singer becomes a naturalized citizen of the United States.

Jack Kerouac joins the US Navy .

C. S. Lewis makes a series of radio broadcasts that will be adapted as '' Mere Christianity ''.

Tristan Bernard is released from the Drancy Deportation Camp .

The FBI places Richard Wright under surveillance.

Philip Larkin graduates from Oxford and obtains his first post as a librarian.

NEW BOOKS

Sholem Asch - '' The Apostle ''

Henry Bellamann - '' Victoria Grandolet ''

Raymond Chandler - '' The Lady In The Lake ''

Agatha Christie - '' Towards Zero ''

Colette - '' Le Képi ''

Roald Dahl - '' Gremlins ''

Howard Fast - '' Citizen Tom Paine ''

C. S. Forester - '' The Ship ''

Robert Graves - '' Claudius The God ''

Elizabeth Janet Gray - '' Adam Of The Road ''

Graham Greene - '' Ministry Of Fear ''

H.P. Lovecraft - '' Beyond The Wall Of Sleep ''

Naguib Mahfouz - '' Rhadopis Of Nubia ''

C. L. Moore - '' Earth's Last Citadel ''

Kate O'Brien - '' The Last Of Summer ''

Carl Offord - '' The White Face ''

E. Phillips Oppenheim - '' Mr. Mirakel ''

Roger Peyrefitte - '' Les Amitiés Particulières ''

Ayn Rand - '' The Fountainhead ''

Antoine De Saint-Exupery - '' The Little Prince ''

Betty Smith - '' A Tree Grows In Brooklyn ''

H. G. Wells - '' Crux Ansata ''

Chancellor Williams - ''The Raven''

Virginia Woolf - ''A Haunted House and other stories'' (published anonymously)

NEW DRAMA

Thornton Wilder - '' The Skin Of Our Teeth ''

POETRY

''A Choice of Kipling 's Verse'' edited by T. S. Eliot

NON-FICTION

Julius Evola - '' The Doctrine Of Awakening ''

C. S. Lewis - '' The Abolition Of Man ''

Reinhold Niebuhr - '' The Nature And Destiny Of Man ''

Jean-Paul Sartre - '' Being And Nothingness ''

BIRTHS

January 4 - Doris Kearns Goodwin , writer

January 11 - Jim Hightower , radio host, author

February 15 - Elke Heidenreich , journalist and writer

February 18 - Graeme Garden , writer, comedian, actor

February 22 - Terry Eagleton , critic

March 26 - Bob Woodward , journalist

April 30 - Paul Jennings , children's author

May 5 - Michael Palin , comedy writer and television personality

May 7 - Peter Carey , Booker Prize-winning novelist

May 8 - Pat Barker , Booker Prize-winning novelist

June 15 - Xaviera Hollander , ''Happy Hooker'' author

July 16 - Reinaldo Arenas , Cuban writer (d. 1990 )

November 5 - Sam Shepard , Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, writer, actor

November 12 - Wallace Shawn , actor and dramatist

December 9 - Joanna Trollope , novelist

''date unknown'' - L. E. Modesitt, Jr. , Fantasy and Science Fiction writer

''date unknown'' - Gwynne Dyer , journalist

''date unknown'' - Max Clifford , publicist

''date unknown'' - Simon Jenkins , journalist

''date unknown'' - Charles Murray , ''Bell Curve'' author

''date unknown'' - Sheila Rowbotham , feminist author

''date unknown'' - Christopher Priest , science fiction author

DEATHS

January 9 - R. G. Collingwood , philosopher and historian

March 10 - Lawrence Binyon , poet and scholar

April 30 - Beatrice Webb

May - Arthur Mee , editor of the ''Children's Encyclopaedia''

August 24 - Simone Weil , philosopher

October 7 - Radclyffe Hall , controversial author

December 22 - Beatrix Potter , Children's author

''date unknown'' - Guido Mazzoni , poet

''date unknown'' - F. M. Cornford , poet

AWARDS

, ''Adam of the Road''

Nobel Prize For Literature : ''not awarded''

, ''The Skin of Our Teeth''

: ''A Witness Tree''

- ''Dragon's Teeth''