Events New Books Adam of the Road - Elizabeth Janet Gray The Apostle - Sholem Asch Being and Nothingness - Jean-Paul Sartre Citizen Tom Paine - Howard Fast Claudius the God - Robert Graves Earth's Last Citadel - C. L. Moore The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand Gremlins - Roald Dahl The Lady In The Lake - Raymond Chandler The Last of Summer - Kate O'Brien The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery The Nature and Destiny of Man - Reinhold Niebuhr Mr. Mirakel - E. Phillipe Oppenheim The Raven - Chancellor Williams A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith Victoria Grandolet - Henry Bellamann The White Face - Carl Offord Song of Bernadette - Franz Werfel Births January 4 - Doris Kearns Goodwin, writer January 11 - Jim Hightower, radio host, author February 15 - Elke Heidenreich, journalist and writer February 18 - Graeme Garden, writer, comedian, actor Deaths March 10 - Lawrence Binyon, poet and scholar December 22 - Beatrix Potter, Children's author Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: Janet Elizabeth Gray, Adam of the Road Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Frost: A Witness Tree Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Upton Sinclair - Dragon's Teeth