Events New Books All the President's Men - Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward Carrie - Stephen King Centennial - James A. Michener Crime Partners - Donald Goines The Cry of the Halidon - Robert Ludlum Death Sleep - John Hawkes The Diviners - Margaret Laurence The Dogs of War - Frederick Forsyth Falstaff - Robert Nye Fear of Flying - Erica Jong The Last Days of Louisiana Red - Ishmael Reed Let Me Alone - Anna Kavan Look at the Harlequins - Vladimir Nabokov The Other Side of Midnight - Sidney Sheldon Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Annie Dillard The Pirate - Harold Robbins The Power Broker - Robert A. Caro Something Happened - Joseph Heller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - John le Carré Wait Until the Evening - Hal Bennett Watership Down - Richard Adams A Wind in the Door - Madeleine L'Engle Working - Studs Terkel Births Deaths December 14 - Walter Lippmann, writer October 4 - Anne Sexton, poet Awards Booker Prize: Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist Newbery Medal for children's literature: Paula Fox, The Slave Dancer Nobel Prize for Literature: Evyind Johnson and Harry Martinson Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: no award given Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Lowell, The Dolphin