Events New Books August 1914 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn Captains and the Kings - Taylor Caldwell Die the Long Day - Horace Orlando Patterson Endurance - James L Harris Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimov The Great Bridge - David McCullough Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach The Manticore - Robertson Davies My Name is Asher Lev - Chaim Potok The Odessa File - Frederick Forsyth The Osterman Weekend - Robert Ludlum Semi-Tough - Dan Jenkins Two from Galilee - Marjorie Holmes The Word - Irving Wallace Births Deaths Awards Booker Prize: John Berger, G Newbery Medal for children's literature: Robert C. Obrien, Mrs. Frisbee and the Rats of NIMH Nobel Prize for Literature: Heinrich Böll Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Wallace Stegner - Angle of Repose Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Wright, Collected Poems