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The year 1954 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

EVENTS

Jack Kerouac reads Dwight Goddard 's ''A Buddhist Bible'', which will influence him greatly.

John Updike graduates from Harvard with a thesis on George Herbert .

Lawrence Quincy Mumford becomes Librarian Of Congress .

NEW BOOKS

Kingsley Amis - '' Lucky Jim ''

Poul Anderson - '' The Broken Sword ''

Isaac Asimov - '' The Caves Of Steel ''

Hamilton Basso - '' The View From Pompey's Head ''

Simone De Beauvoir - '' The Mandarins ''

Pierre Boulle - '' The Bridge On The River Kwai '' (''Le pont de la rivière Kwai'')

Taylor Caldwell - '' Never Victorious, Never Defeated ''

Robertson Davies - '' Leaven Of Malice ''

Daphne Du Maurier - '' Mary Anne ''

Ian Fleming - '' Live And Let Die ''

William Golding - '' Lord Of The Flies ''

Hergé - '' Explorers On The Moon ''

Mac Hyman - '' No Time For Sergeants ''

Frances Parkinson Keyes - '' The Royal Box ''

C. S. Lewis - '' The Horse And His Boy ''

Kamala Markandaya - '' Nectar In A Sieve ''

Richard Matheson - '' I Am Legend ''

John Metcalfe - '' The Feasting Dead ''

James A. Michener - '' Sayonara ''

Alberto Moravia - '' Il Disprezzo '' (''A Ghost at Noon'')

Iris Murdoch - '' Under The Net ''

J. B. Priestley - '' The Magicians ''

Marcel Proust - ''Jean Sauteuil'' (posthumously published)

Pauline Réage - '' Histoire D'O '' (''Story of O'')

Mordecai Richler - '' The Acrobats ''

Anya Seton - '' Katherine ''

Dr. Seuss - '' Horton Hears A Who! ''

John Steinbeck - '' Sweet Thursday ''

Irving Stone - '' Love Is Eternal ''

Edward Streeter - '' Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation ''

Morton Thompson - '' Not As A Stranger ''

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Frank Yerby - '' Benton's Row ''

NEW DRAMA

Brendan Behan - '' The Quare Fellow ''

Terence Rattigan - '' Separate Tables ''

Dylan Thomas - '' Under Milk Wood ''

Thornton Wilder - '' The Matchmaker ''

NON-FICTION

L. Sprague De Camp - '' Lost Continents ''

Albert Einstein - '' Ideas And Opinions ''

Aldous Huxley - '' The Doors Of Perception ''

Arthur Koestler - ''The Invisible Writing: The Second Volume Of An Autobiography, 1932-40''

Mervyn Peake - ''Figures of Speech''

BIRTHS

January 29 - Oprah Winfrey , actress, Talk Show host, producer, publisher

June 28 - A. A. Gill , journalist and critic

November - Christopher Pike , children's author

Esther Delisle , Quebec author & historian

DEATHS

January 1 - Duff Cooper (1st Viscount Norwich), poet, biographer and politician

January 25 - M. N. Roy , philosopher and politician

March 28 - Francis Brett Young , novelist and poet

April 8

--- Juan Álvarez , historian

--- Winnifred Eaton , Canadian author

April 19 - Russell Davenport , journalist and publisher

May 3 - Earnest Hooton , popular writer on anthropology

August 3 - Colette , French novelist

September 19 - Miles Franklin , novelist

September 29 - W. J. Gruffydd , editor of ''Y Llenor (Literature)''

December 6 - Lucien Tesnière , grammarian

AWARDS

, ''And Now Miguel''

, ''La muerte sienta bien a Villalobos''

, ''The Teahouse of the August Moon''

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

: ''The Waking''