Events New Books An American Dilemma - Gunnar Myrdal Au rendez-vous allemand - (To the German Rendezvous) - Paul Éluard A Bell for Adano - John Hersey Beyond the Palisade (poetry) - James K. Baxter The Book of Imaginary Beings - Jorge Luis Borges Book of Naturalists - Charles William Beebe The Case of Mrs. Wingate - Oscar Micheaux Dangling Man - Saul Bellow The Dawn Appears - Annie Greene Nelson The Golden Fleece - Robert von Ranke Graves The Horse's Mouth - Joyce Cary Johnny Tremain - Esther Forbes Our Lady of the Flowers - Jean Genet Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren The Razor's Edge - W. Somerset Maugham The Tall Book of Nursery Tales - Feodor Rojankovsky Terras do sem fim (The Violent Land) - Jorge Amado Thou That Dwellest in the Gardens - Hayyim Hazaz Two Frontiers (poetry) - Edwin James Brady Births February 10 - Vernor Vinge (science fiction novelist) February 14 - Alan Parker, director, writer February 14 - Carl Bernstein, journalist February 16 - Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist December 17 - Jack L. Chalker science fiction novelist Deaths July 31 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer September 13 - Heath Robinson, British cartoonist and illustrator December 30 - Romain Rolland, Nobel Prize winning author Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain Nobel Prize for literature: Johannes Vilhelm Jensen Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Vincent Benet, Western Star Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Martin Flavin, Journey in the Dark
New Books An American Dilemma - Gunnar Myrdal Au rendez-vous allemand - (To the German Rendezvous) - Paul Éluard A Bell for Adano - John Hersey Beyond the Palisade (poetry) - James K. Baxter The Book of Imaginary Beings - Jorge Luis Borges Book of Naturalists - Charles William Beebe The Case of Mrs. Wingate - Oscar Micheaux Dangling Man - Saul Bellow The Dawn Appears - Annie Greene Nelson The Golden Fleece - Robert von Ranke Graves The Horse's Mouth - Joyce Cary Johnny Tremain - Esther Forbes Our Lady of the Flowers - Jean Genet Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren The Razor's Edge - W. Somerset Maugham The Tall Book of Nursery Tales - Feodor Rojankovsky Terras do sem fim (The Violent Land) - Jorge Amado Thou That Dwellest in the Gardens - Hayyim Hazaz Two Frontiers (poetry) - Edwin James Brady Births February 10 - Vernor Vinge (science fiction novelist) February 14 - Alan Parker, director, writer February 14 - Carl Bernstein, journalist February 16 - Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist December 17 - Jack L. Chalker science fiction novelist Deaths July 31 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer September 13 - Heath Robinson, British cartoonist and illustrator December 30 - Romain Rolland, Nobel Prize winning author Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain Nobel Prize for literature: Johannes Vilhelm Jensen Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Vincent Benet, Western Star Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Martin Flavin, Journey in the Dark