Events New Books Nets to Catch the Wind - Elinor Wylie Alexander's Bridge - Willa Cather Alice Adams - Booth Tarkington The Byzantine riddle and other stories - Eugene Walter Figures of Earth - James Branch Cabell Flappers and Philosophers - F. Scott Fitzgerald Heloise and Abelard - George A. Moore Her Father's Daughter - Gene Stratton Porter The Idol of Paris - Sarah Bernhardt Joanna Godden - Sheila Kaye-Smith The Master of Man - Hall Caine The Mistress of Husaby - Sigrid Undset Mystery Ranch - Arthur Chapman Romance to the rescue - Denis Mackail Scaramouche - Rafael Sabatini The Secret Power - Marie Corelli She and Allan - H. Rider Haggard Three Soldiers - John Dos Passos Births January 5 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, writer (+ 1990) January 19 - Patricia Highsmith, author (+ 1995) January 20 - Bernt Engelmann, author (+ 1994) May 23 - James Blish, US science fiction author Deaths June 5 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright Awards Nobel Prize for Literature: Anatole France Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Zona Gale, Miss Lulu Bett Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: no award given Pulitzer Prize for the Novel : Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence
New Books Nets to Catch the Wind - Elinor Wylie Alexander's Bridge - Willa Cather Alice Adams - Booth Tarkington The Byzantine riddle and other stories - Eugene Walter Figures of Earth - James Branch Cabell Flappers and Philosophers - F. Scott Fitzgerald Heloise and Abelard - George A. Moore Her Father's Daughter - Gene Stratton Porter The Idol of Paris - Sarah Bernhardt Joanna Godden - Sheila Kaye-Smith The Master of Man - Hall Caine The Mistress of Husaby - Sigrid Undset Mystery Ranch - Arthur Chapman Romance to the rescue - Denis Mackail Scaramouche - Rafael Sabatini The Secret Power - Marie Corelli She and Allan - H. Rider Haggard Three Soldiers - John Dos Passos Births January 5 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, writer (+ 1990) January 19 - Patricia Highsmith, author (+ 1995) January 20 - Bernt Engelmann, author (+ 1994) May 23 - James Blish, US science fiction author Deaths June 5 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright Awards Nobel Prize for Literature: Anatole France Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Zona Gale, Miss Lulu Bett Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: no award given Pulitzer Prize for the Novel : Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence