Events The Magus - John Fowles 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 Autobiography of Malcolm X - Alex Haley & Malcolm X The British Museum Is Falling Down - David Lodge Dune - Frank Herbert Georgy Girl - Margaret Forster The Green Berets - Robin Moore Hotel - Arthur Hailey The Looking-Glass War - John le Carré The Magus - John Fowles The Man With The Golden Gun - Ian Fleming Markings - Dag Hammarskjold The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski The Source - James A. Michener Those Who Love - Irving Stone The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. Dick Up the Down Staircase - Bel Kaufman Births July 31 - Joanne Kathleen Rowling, author Deaths January 4 - T. S. Eliot, American/British poet January 12 - Lorraine Hansberry, writer December 16 - William Somerset Maugham Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: Maia Wojciechowska, Shadow of a Bull Nobel Prize for literature - Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Frank D. Gilroy, The Subject Was Roses Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Shirley Ann Grau - The Keepers Of The House Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: John Berryman: 77 Dream Songs