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The year 1973 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

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

Martin Amis – '' The Rachel Papers ''

Ernest Becker – '' The Denial Of Death ''

Joseph Payne Brennan – '' Stories Of Darkness And Dread ''

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

Ramsey Campbell - '' Demons By Daylight ''

Jerome Charyn – '' Tar Baby ''

Basil Copper – '' From Evil's Pillow ''

L. Sprague De Camp – '' The Fallible Fiend ''

L. Sprague De Camp and Catherine Crook De Camp , editors – '' 3000 Years Of Nd Science Fiction ''

August Derleth – '' The Chronicles Of Solar Pons ''

Michael Ende – '' Momo ''

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

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

William Goldman – '' The Princess Bride ''

Graham Greene - '' The Honorary Consul ''

James Jones – '' A Touch Of Danger ''

Anna Kavan – '' Who Are You? ''

Brian Killick – '' The Heralds ''

Dean R. Koontz – '' Demon Seed ''

Jerzy Kosinski – '' Devil Tree ''

Robert Ludlum – '' The Matlock Paper ''

Cormac McCarthy – '' Child Of God ''

Ruth Manning-Sanders – '' A Book Of Ogres And Trolls ''

Robert Marasco – '' Burnt Offerings ''

Toni Morrison – '' Sula ''

Iris Murdoch – '' The Black Prince ''

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

Mervyn Peake – '' The Rhyme Of The Flying Bomb '' (posthumously published)

Anthony Powell – '' Temporary Kings ''

Thomas Pynchon – '' Gravity's Rainbow ''

Irwin Shaw – '' Evening In Byzantium ''

Jacqueline Susann – '' Once Is Not Enough ''

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

Jack Vance – '' The Anome ''

Gore Vidal – '' Burr ''

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

Patrick White – '' Eye Of The Storm ''

Rudy Wiebe – '' Temptations Of Big Bear ''

Roger Zelazny

---'' To Die In Italbar ''

---'' Today We Choose Faces ''

NEW DRAMA

Alan Ayckbourn – '' The Norman Conquests ''

POETRY

Allen Curnow – ''An Abominable Temper and Other Poems''

Tomás Rivera – ''Always and other poems''

NON-FICTION

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

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

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

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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

Canada

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

France

, ''L'Ogre''

, ''Paysage de fantaisie''

, ''Life Is Elsewhere''

United Kingdom

, ''The Siege of Krishnapur''

, Philip Larkin

, Ian Caws , James Fenton , Keith Harris , David Howarth , Philip Pacey

United States

American Academy Of Arts And Letters Gold Medal In Poetry , John Crowe Ransom

, '' The Gods Themselves ''

, '' Rendezvous With Rama ''

, ''Julie of the Wolves''

, ''That Championship Season''

, ''The Optimists Daughter''

, ''Up Country''

Elsewhere

, ''El rito''

, ''Manuale di conversazione''