Events The first Booker Prize is awarded; Penelope Ashe, author of bestselling novel, Naked Came the Stranger is found to be several people who each took a turn writing a chapter of what they described as "junk" in order to prove that sex-filled trash sells. It did. New Books The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton The Campus Murders - Ellery Queen The Edible Woman - Margaret Atwood The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles The Godfather - Mario Puzo The Green Man - Kingsley Amis The Inheritors - Harold Robbins Jirel of Joiry - C. L. Moore Little Painted Mouths - Manuel Puig The Love Machine - Jacqueline Susann Mary Queen of Scots - Antonia Fraser Naked Came the Stranger - Penelope Ashe Nothing Black But A Cadillac - Raymond Spence A Pocketful of Rye - A.J. Cronin Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth Retour à Roissy - Pauline Réage Sounder - William H. Armstrong The Seven Minutes - Irving Wallace The Street - Mordecai Richler That Godless Woman - Merton H. Coleman The Veiled Sultan - March Cost Births Deaths January 11 - Richmal Crompton, author March 11 - John Wyndham, British author March 26 - John Kennedy Toole, author March 27 - B. Traven, writer October 21 - Jack Kerouac, author Awards Booker Prize: P. H. Newby - Something to Answer For Newbery Medal for children's literature: Lloyd Alexander, The High King Nobel Prize for Literature: Samuel Beckett Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Howard Sackler, The Great White Hope Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: N. Scott Momaday - House Made of Dawn Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: George Oppen: Of Being Numerous