Events New Books Counter-Clockwise - John M. Lee Daniel Boone - James Daugherty Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler The Don Flows Home to the Sea - Mikhail Sholokov The Earth is the Lord's - Taylor Caldwell Farewell, My Lovely - Raymond Chandler The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers Horton Hatches the Egg - Dr. Seuss King's Row - Henry Bellamann Last Train Out - E. Phillipe Oppenheim The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead A Mathematician's Apology - G. H. Hardy Native Son - Richard Wright The Ox-bow Incident - Walter Clark Pal Joey - John O'Hara Pat the Bunny - Dorothy Kunhardt Sapphira And The Slave - Willa Cather Trouble in July - Erskine Caldwell When the Whippoorwill - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Births February 4 - George Romero, horror movie writer, producer, director February 29 - Edward Frederick Benson, American writer March 16 - Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian writer and film director May 7 - Angela Carter, English magical realist author Deaths March 10 - Mikhaïl Boulgakov, Russian writer March 16 - Selma Lagerlöf, writer December 21 - F Scott Fitzgerald December 22 - Nathanael West Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: James Daugherty, Daniel Boone Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama: William Saroyan, The Time of Your Life Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mark Van Doren: Collected Poems Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath