Events First United States printing of John Cleland's 1749 novel, Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure). The book is banned for obscenity, triggering a court case by its publisher. New Books The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath Benefactor - Susan Sontag Caravans - James A. Michener Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut City of Night - John Rechy The Collector - John Fowles Elizabeth Appleton - John O'Hara John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure - John Cleland The Glass-Blowers - Daphne Du Maurier Gradmother and the Priests - Taylor Caldwell The Group - Mary McCarthy Happiness Is a Warm Puppy - Charles M. Schulz The Making of the English Working Class - E. P. Thompson On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Ian Fleming Planet of the Apes (La Planète des Singes) - Pierre Boulle The Rise of the West - William H. McNeill The Sand Pebbles - Richard McKenna Second Skin - John Hawkes The Shoes of the Fisherman - Morris West Six Easy Pieces - Richard P. Feynman The Spy who Came in from the Cold - John le Carré That Summer in Paris - Morley Callaghan Births June 25 - Yann Martel, author Alice Sebold, author Deaths January 29 - Robert Frost, poet February 11 - Sylvia Plath, poet/novelist. March 4 - William Carlos Williams, writer August 27 - W. E. B. Du Bois, writer/civil rights November 22 - Aldous Huxley, novelist November 22 - C.S. Lewis - novelist, Christian apologist, and English professor Theodore Roethke - American poet Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: Madeline L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time Nobel Prize for literature - Giorgos Seferis Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: William Faulkner - The Reivers Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William Carlos Williams: Pictures from Breughel