Events Dean R. Koontz's first novel, Star Quest is published. New Books Airport - Arthur Hailey Armies of the Night - Norman Mailer Cancer Ward - Alexander Solzhenitsyn Cocksure - Mordecai Richler Couples - John Updike Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K. Dick The Double Helix - James D. Watson The End of Obscenity: The trials of Lady Chatterley, Tropic of Cancer and Fanny Hill - Charles Rembar The First Circle - Alexander Solzhenitsyn I Am Mary Dunne - Brian Moore The Ice-Cream Headache and Other Stories - James Jones Lonesome Cities (poetry) - Rod McKuen The Military Philosophers - Anthony Powell The Money Game - Adam Smith Myra Breckinridge - Gore Vidal Preserve and Protect - Allen Drury The Salzburg Connection - Helen McInnes A Small Town in Germany - John le Carré Testimony of Two Men - Taylor Caldwell Births Deaths April 16 - Edna Ferber November 25 - Upton Sinclair December 5 - Anna Kavan December 20 - John Steinbeck Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: E. L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Nobel Prize for Literature: Yasunari Kawabata Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Anthony Hecht, The Hard Hours