Events New Books After The Storm - Annie Greene Nelson Black Alibi - Cornell Woolrich Black Lamb and Grey Falcon - Rebecca West Cross Creek - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings David - Earl Birney Floods of Spring - Henry Bellamann Frenchman's Creek - Daphne du Maurier The Matchlock Gun - Walter D. Edmonds Picketing Hell - Adam Clayton Powell, Sr The Poky Little Puppy - Janette Sebring Lowrey The Robe - Lloyd C. Douglas The Song of Bernadette - Franz Werfel The Stranger (L'Étranger) - Albert Camus The Strong City - Taylor Caldwell To Be a Pilgrim - Joyce Cary West with the Night - Beryl Markham Births January 31 - Derek Jarman, director, writer (+ 1994) October 23 - Michael Crichton, author December 6 - Peter Handke, Austrian novelist Deaths Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: Walter O. Edmonds, The Matchlock Gun Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William Rose Benet, The Dust Which Is God Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life
Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: Walter O. Edmonds, The Matchlock Gun Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William Rose Benet, The Dust Which Is God Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life