Events The Diary of Anne Frank is published Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is published. In 2001, the book would be listed as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. New Books Country Place - Ann Lane Petty Creatures of Circumstance - W. Somerset Maugham The Cold War - Walter Lippmann Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann Froth on the Daydream - Boris Vian God Is For White Folks - Thomas Will Goodnight Moon - Margaret Wise Brown A High Wind Rising - Elsie Singmaster I, the Jury - Mickey Spillane Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison Knock On Any Door - Willard Motley Masquerade, a Historical Novel - Oscar Micheaux Miss Hickory - Carolyn Sherwin Bailey The Moneyman - Thomas Costain Paris Was Our Mistress: Memoirs of a Lost & Found Generation - Samuel Putnam The Path to the Nest of Spiders - Italo Calvino The Plague (La Peste) - Albert Camus Prince of Foxes - Samuel Shellabarger Rocket Ship Galileo - Robert Heinlein Saggy Baggy Elephant - Kathryn Jackson and Byron Jackson Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata Tales of the South Pacific - James A. Michener Tea with Mrs Goodman - Philip Toynbee Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry Who Has Seen the Wind - W.O. Mitchell Births February 3 - Paul Auster, novelist April 12 - Tom Clancy, novelist June 19 - Salman Rushdie, author September 21 - Stephen King, author October 19 - Giorgio Cavazzano, comics artist and illustrator Deaths April 24 - Willa Cather December 7 - Tristan Bernard - French writer and lawyer Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, Miss Hickory Nobel Prize for literature: André Paul Guillaume Gide Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Lowell: Lord Weary's Castle Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Robert Penn Warren - All the King's Men
Deaths April 24 - Willa Cather December 7 - Tristan Bernard - French writer and lawyer Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, Miss Hickory Nobel Prize for literature: André Paul Guillaume Gide Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Lowell: Lord Weary's Castle Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Robert Penn Warren - All the King's Men