Events Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov is published. In 2001, the novel would be one of two books by Nabokov to be on the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. New Books Apples of Gold - Jo Petty The Changeling - Thomas Middleton Dearly Beloved - Anne Morrow Lindbergh The Guns of August - Barbara Tuchman The Kindly Ones - Anthony Powell Lilies of the Field - William Barrett The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut A Murder of Quality - John le Carré My Life in Court - Louis Nizer One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov The Prize - Irving Wallace A Prologue To Love - Taylor Caldwell The Reivers - William Faulkner Seven Days in May - Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II Sex and the Single Girl - Helen Gurley Brown A Shade of Difference - Allen Drury Ship of Fools - Katherine Anne Porter Silent Spring - Rachel Carson The Spy Who Loved Me - Ian Fleming Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein The Thin Red Line - James Jones Travels with Charley: In Search of America - John Steinbeck Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor A Wrinkle in Time -- Madeleine L'Engle Youngblood Hawke - Herman Wouk Births October 19 - Tracy Chevalier, author Deaths July 6 - William Faulkner, American novelist August 9 - Hermann Hesse, author Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth George Speare, The Bronze Bow Nobel Prize for literature - John Steinbeck Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Edwin O'Connor - The Edge of Sadness Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Alan Dugan: Poems