Events New Books The Billion Dollar Sure Thing – Paul E. Erdman The Black Prince - Iris Murdoch Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr Burnt Offerings - Robert Marasco Burr - Gore Vidal The Court-Martial of Daniel Boone - Allan W. Eckert Cromwell, our Chief of Men - Antonia Fraser Demon Seed - Dean R. Koontz Devil Tree - Jerzy Kosinski Evening in Byzantium - Irwin Shaw Eye of the Storm - Patrick White Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 - Hunter S Thompson Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon The Honorary Consul - Graham Greene If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Send Me Home - Tim O'Brien The Matlock Paper - Robert Ludlum The Odessa File - Frederick Forsyth Once Is Not Enough - Jacqueline Susann Sula - Toni Morrison Tar Baby - Jerome Charyn Temporary Kings - Anthony Powell Temptations of Big Bear - Rudy Wiebe There Is A Tree More Ancient Than Eden - Leon Forrest A Touch of Danger - James Jones Who Are You - Anna Kavan Births Deaths March 6 - Pearl S. Buck June 30 - Nancy Mitford, English novelist and biographer September 23 - Pablo Neruda W. H. Auden Awards Booker Prize: J. G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur Newbery Medal for children's literature: Jean Craighead George, Julie of the Wolves Nobel Prize for Literature: Patrick White Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Jason Miller, That Championship Season Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Eudora Welty, The Optimists Daughter Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Maxine Kumin, Up Country