Events Writing under the pseudonym of Emile Ajar, author Romain Gary becomes the only person to ever win the Prix Goncourt twice. Finished in 1952, Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy (Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street), is first published. New Books Andersonville - MacKinlay Kantor Aniara (poetry) - Harry Martinson Auntie Mame - Patrick Dennis Boon Island - Kenneth Roberts Cairo Trilogy - Naguib Mahfouz A Certain Smile - Françoise Sagan Diamonds Are Forever - Ian Fleming Don't Go Near the Water - William Brinkley Eloise - Kay Thompson The Fall (La Chute) - Albert Camus Heike Story - Yoshikawa Eiji Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg The Last Battle - C. S. Lewis The Last Hurrah - Edwin O'Connor The Last of the Wine - Mary Renault The Mandarins - Simone de Beauvoir Minority Report - Philip K. Dick Misty of Chincoteague - Marguerite Henry The Mysterious North - Pierre Berton The Nun's Story - Kathryn Hulme Palace Walk - Naguib Mahfouz Peyton Place - Grace Metalious Les racines du ciel - Romain Gary Seize the Day - Saul Bellow The Sweet Science - A. J. Liebling Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold - C. S. Lewis The Tribe That Lost Its Head - Nicholas Monsarrat The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster - Norman Mailer Births June 9 - Patricia Cornwell Deaths January 31 - A.A. Milne Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: Jean Lee Latham, Carry On, Mr. Bowditch Nobel Prize for literature: Juan Ramón Jiménez Prix Goncourt: Romain Gary for Les racines du ciel Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, Diary of Anne Frank Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: MacKinlay Kantor - Andersonville Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Elizabeth Bishop: Poems - North & South