Events January 29 - James Jones wins the National Book Award for his 1951 novel, From Here to Eternity. November 25 - Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap opens in London New Books Adventures in Two Worlds - A.J. Cronin Arrow in the Blue - Arthur Koestler A Buyer's Market - Anthony Powell Charlotte's Web - E.B. White The Devils of Loudun - Aldous Huxley East of Eden - John Steinbeck Giant - Edna Ferber The Gown of Glory - Agnes Sligh Turnbull Heaven and Earth - Carlo Coccioli The Hidden Flower - Pearl S. Buck The Houses in Between - Howard Spring The Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison Island of Desire - Edith Templeton Judgment Night - C. L. Moore A Many-splendoured Thing - Han Suyin Martha Quest - Doris Lessing The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway The Power of Positive Thinking - Norman Vincent Peale The Saracen Blade - Frank Yerby The Silver Chalice - Thomas B. Costain The Small Miracle - Paul Gallico Steamboat Gothic - Frances Parkinson Keyes Vermeer - Lawrence Gowing The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C. S. Lewis Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett Births February 19 - Amy Tan, novelist March 11 - Douglas Adams, science fiction author Deaths February 19 - Knut Hamsun, author September 29 – George Santayana, writer November 23 – Aaro Hellaakoski, Finnish poet Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: Eleanor Estes, Ginger Pye Nobel Prize for Literature: François Mauriac Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Joseph Kramm, The Shrike Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Herman Wouk - The Caine Mutiny Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Marianne Moore, Collected Poems