Events Death of a Salesman, a play by Arthur Miller The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles is published. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. New Books The Aleph - Jorge Luis Borges Alien Land - Willard W. Savoy The Angry Wife - Pearl S. Buck Beneath The Sky - Alfred Q. Jarrette Beyond Earth's Gates - C. L. Moore Cannibal - John Hawkes Crooked House - Agatha Christie The Egyptian - Mika Waltari The Golden Sequence - Martha E. Von Almedingen The Heat of the Day - Elixabeth Bowen King of the Wind - Marguerite Henry Let Love Come Last - Taylor Caldwell Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford Male and Female - Margaret Mead The Man with the Golden Arm - Nelson Algren Men of Maize - Miguel Angel Asturias The Miracles of the Red Altar Cloth - Hermann L. Hunter Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell Pride's Castle - Frank Yerby A Rage To Live - John O'Hara The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir To Hell and Back - Audie Murphy Shane - Jack Schaefer The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute Trouble with Harry - Jack Story Births Deaths June 10 - Sigrid Undset, Nobel Prize winning author April 24 - Willa Cather, author May 6 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet & playwright Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: Marguerite Henry, King of the Wind Nobel Prize for literature - William Faulkner Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: James Gould Cozzens, Guard of Honor Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Peter Viereck, Terror and Decorum
Deaths June 10 - Sigrid Undset, Nobel Prize winning author April 24 - Willa Cather, author May 6 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet & playwright Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: Marguerite Henry, King of the Wind Nobel Prize for literature - William Faulkner Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: James Gould Cozzens, Guard of Honor Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Peter Viereck, Terror and Decorum