Events Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is removed from an advanced placement English reading list in Lindale, Texas because it "conflicted with the values of the community." In the United Kingdom, the first Orange Prize for Fiction for female novelists is awarded. New Books Absolute Power - David Baldacci Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood Bandarshah - Al-Tayyib Salih Executive Orders - Tom Clancy Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry The Fourth Estate - Jeffrey Archer Gods and Generals - Jeff Shaara The Goldberg Variations - Nancy Huston ''Hackers - short story collection Hogfather - Terry Pratchett How Stella Got Her Groove Back - Terry McMillan Intensity - Dean R. Koontz Kiki's Memoirs - Kiki, (translation by Samuel Putnam) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt Moonlight Becomes You - Mary Higgins Clark Primary Colors - Joe Klein as "Anonymous" The Runaway Jury - John Grisham Selected Stories - Mavis Gallant Sofia; The Sultan's Daughter - Ann Chamberlin The Tailor of Panama - John le Carré The Tenth Insight - James Redfield Undaunted Courage - Stephen Ambrose A Vicious Circle - Amanda Craig Births Deaths January 28 - Jerry Seigel, cartoonist, creator of Superman February 11 - Bob Shaw, science fiction writer. December 11 Willie Rushton, UK comedian and cartoonist Awards Booker Prize: Graham Swift, Last Orders Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Margaret Atwood: - Alias Grace See 1996 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: David Malouf, Remembering Babylon Nebula Award: Nicola Griffith, Slow River Newbery Medal for children's literature: Karen Cushman, The Midwife's Apprentice Nobel Prize for Literature: Wislawa Szymborska Prix Goncourt: Pascale Roze, Le Chasseur Zéro Prix Décembre: Régis Debray, Loués soient nos seigneurs: une éducation politique Prix Médicis French: Orlanda - Jacqueline Harpman and L'Organisation - Jean Rolin Prix Médicis International: Himmelfarb - Michael Kruger, Germany and Sonietchka - Ludmila Oulitskaďa, Russia Orange Prize for Fiction: Helen Dunmore, A Spell of Winter Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Jonathan Larson, Rent Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Richard Ford - Independence Day Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Jorie Graham: The Dream of the Unified Field Whitbread Best Book Award: Seamus Heaney, The Spirit Level