Events Samuel Beckett publishes "Proust," a collection of essays New Books Afternoon Men - Anthony Powell Black No More - George S. Schuyler The Cat Who Went to Heaven - Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth The Chinaberry Tree - Jessie Redmond Fauset The Colored Gentlemen, A Product of Modern Civilization - Dennis F. Imbert The Dutch Shoe Mystery - Ellery Queen The Glass Key - Dashiell Hammett The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck Hatter's Castle - A.J. Cronin Highland Fling - Nancy Mitford Judith Paris - Hugh Walpole The Lonely Road - Nevil Shute A New Theory of Magnetic Storms - Chapman and Ferraro No Man's Meat - Morley Callaghan Prince Jali - Leopold Myers The Secret of Shadow Ranch - Carolyn Keene Wild Orchid - Sigrid Undset Births January 6 - E.L. Doctorow, author January 27 - Mordecai Richler, author (+ 2001) February 10 - Thomas Bernhard, author (+ 1989) February 11 - Larry Merchant, author/boxing commentator. February 18 - Toni Morrison, writer, winner 1993Nobel Prize in literature Johnny Hart, cartoonist March 2 - Tom Wolfe August 12 - William Goldman, author October 19 - John le Carré Deaths August 27 - Frank Harris, author and editor, August 31 - Hall Caine, author October 13 - Ernst Didring, swedish writer, Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth Coatsworth, The Cat Who Went to Heaven Nobel Prize for literature - Erik Axel Karlfeldt Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Susan Glaspell, Alison's House Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Frost: Collected Poems Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Margaret Ayer Barnes - Years of Grace