Events New Books The Able McLaughlins - Margaret Wilson Deirdre - James Stephens Faint Perfume - Zona Gale The House at Pooh Corner - A.A. Milne The Inimitable Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse Knock - Jules Romains A Lost Lady - Willa Cather Love and the Philosopher - Marie Corelli Riceyman Steps - Arnold Bennett Seven Trails - Max Brand The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle - Hugh Lofting The Woman of Knockaloe - Hall Caine Births January 6 - Jacobo Timerman, writer (d. 1999) January 10 - Ingeborg Drewitz, writer (d. 1986) January 29 - Paddy Chayefsky, writer (d. 1981) January 31 - Norman Mailer, writer and journalist February 2 - James Dickey, poet, author (d. 1997) February 9 - Brendan Behan, author (d. 1964) March 30 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright May 1 - Joseph Heller, novelist (d. 1999) Deaths Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: Hugh Lofting, The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle Nobel Prize for Literature: William Butler Yeats Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Owen Davis, Icebound Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edna St. Vincent Millay: The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Willa Cather - One of Ours
Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: Hugh Lofting, The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle Nobel Prize for Literature: William Butler Yeats Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Owen Davis, Icebound Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edna St. Vincent Millay: The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Willa Cather - One of Ours