Events New Books The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler The Adult Children of Alcoholics Syndrome - Wayne Kritsberg At the Going Down of the Sun - Elizabeth Darrell Blood Music - Greg Bear Eon - Greg Bear The Cider House Rules - John Irving Contact - Carl Sagan The Damnation Game - Clive Barker Elvis and Me - Priscilla Beaulieu Presley The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood If Tomorrow Comes - Sidney Sheldon Lake Wobegon Days - Garrison Keillor Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry The Mammoth Hunters - Jean M. Auel The Nuclear Age - Tim O'Brien Robots and Empire - Isaac Asimov The Secret Life of Saeed - Imil Habibi Secrets - Danielle Steel Skeleton Crew - Stephen King Texas - James A. Michener Births Deaths August 30 - Taylor Caldwell December 7 - Robert Graves Awards Booker Prize: Keri Hulme, The Bone People See 1985 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. Nebula Award: Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game Newbery Medal for children's literature: Robin McKinley, The Hero and the Crown Nobel Prize for Literature: Claude Simon Prix Goncourt: Yann Queffelec, Les Noces barbares Prix Médicis French: Michel Braudeau, Naissance d'une passion Prix Médicis International: Joseph Heller, God Knows Pulitzer Prize for Drama: James Lapine for book; Stephen Sondheim for music and lyrics, Sunday in the Park With George Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Alison Lurie - Foreign Affairs Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Carolyn Kizer: Yin Whitbread Best Book Award: Douglas Dunn, Elegies