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Events

• Frank Herbert becomes director-photographer of the television show, The Tillers.
• Michael Crichton directs the film, Westworld.

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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
• The Denial of Death - Ernest Becker
• 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
• James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007 - John Pearson
• The Matlock Paper - Robert Ludlum
• Momo - Michael Ende
• The Odessa File - Frederick Forsyth
• Once Is Not Enough - Jacqueline Susann
• The Rachel Papers - Martin Amis
• The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb - Mervyn Peake (posthumous)
• The Stone That Never Came Down - John Brunner
• 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

Paul Erdman is one of the leading business and financial writers in the United States. ... Edward the Black Prince - illustration from Cassells History of England circa 1902 Effigy on the Black Princes tomb in Canterbury Cathedral Edward of Woodstock, Prince of Wales, known as the Black Prince (June 15, 1330 – June 8, 1376) was the eldest son of King Edward III of England... Jump to: navigation, search Dame Iris Murdoch Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (July 15, 1919 – February 8, 1999) was an Anglo–Irish writer and philosopher, best known for her novels, which combine rich characterization and compelling plotlines, usually involving ethical or sexual themes. ... Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday is a 1973 novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut. ... Kurt Vonnegut, Junior (born November 11, 1922) is an American novelist, satirist, and most recently, graphic artist. ... Burnt Offerings is Iced Earths third album, released April 18, 1995, by Century Media Records. ... A burr is a seed or type of fruiting body, borne by certain plants, in which the seeds bear hooks or teeth which attach themselves to fur or clothing of passing animals or people. ... Jump to: navigation, search Gore Vidal, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, known better simply as Gore Vidal, (born October 3, 1925) is a well-known American writer of novels, plays and essays, and a public figure for over fifty years. ... Allan W. Eckert (born January 30, American historian, naturalist and author Allan W. Eckert was born on January 30, 1931 in Buffalo, New York, and raised in the Chicago, Illinois area but has been a long-time resident of Ohio where he attended university. ... Cromwell, Our Chief of Men (1973) by Antonia Fraser The title is from a poem praising Oliver Cromwell by John Milton, perhaps the most famous and accomplished poet of the English Commonwealth. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Lady Antonia Fraser (born August 27, 1932) is a British author of history and novels, best known for writing biographies. ... Jump to: navigation, search Demon Seed is a 1977 film, starring Julie Christie, and directed by Donald Cammell. ... Dean Ray Koontz (born July 9, 1945 in Everett, Pennsylvania) is a prolific and best-selling fiction author known primarily for his popular suspense novels. ... The Denial of Death (ISBN 0684832402) written by Ernest Becker and published in 1973, was awarded the Pulitzer prize in 1974, two months after the authors death. ... Dr. Ernest Becker, a cultural anthropologist and interdisciplinary scientific thinker and writer, came to the recognition that psychological inquiry inevitably comes to a dead end beyond which belief systems must be invoked to satisfy the human psyche. ... Jerzy Kosiński. ... Irwin Shaw (né Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff, February 27, 1913 - May 16, 1984) was an American Jewish playwright, screen writer and author. ... For information about the hard rock band, see Eye of the Storm (band). ... Patrick White (May 28, 1912 – September 30, 1990) was an Australian author. ... Hunter S. Thompson Hunter Stockton Thompson (born Louisville, Kentucky July 18, 1937) is an American journalist and author. ... Gravitys Rainbow book cover. ... Jump to: navigation, search Thomas Pynchon pictured in his high school yearbook. ... This article is about the writer Graham Greene. ... Tim OBrien (born October 1, 1946) is an American novelist who mainly writes about his experiences in the Vietnam War and the impact that the war had on the American soldiers who fought there. ... 1986 British paperback edition. ... John Pearson (born May 10, 1930) is a writer best associated with James Bond creator Ian Fleming. ... Jump to: navigation, search Robert Ludlum (May 25, 1927 – March 12, 2001) was the author of 29 spy fiction novels. ... MOMO is a character/reference from the PS2 game series Xenosaga. ... Michael Ende (November 12, 1929 – August 29, 1995) was a German writer of fantasy novels and childrens books. ... The Odessa File is a thriller novel by Frederick Forsyth about a struggle between a young German reporter and the ODESSA, an organization for Ex-Nazis. ... Frederick Forsyth (born August 25, 1938) is a British author and occasional political commentator. ... Jump to: navigation, search Jacqueline Susann (August 20, 1918 – September 21, 1974 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a Jewish-American author; her works include Valley of the Dolls. ... The Rachel Papers is a 1989 British film based on a novel by Martin Amis. ... Jump to: navigation, search Photo of Martin Amis by Robert Birnbaum Martin Amis (born August 25, 1949) is a British novelist. ... Mervyn Laurence Peake (July 9, 1911 - November 17, 1968) was a British modernist writer, artist, poet and illustrator. ... John Kilian Houston Brunner (September 24, 1934 – August 26, 1995) was a prolific British author of science fiction novels and stories. ... Sula is: The municipality Sula in Norway. ... Toni Morrison (born February 18, 1931) is one of the most prominent authors in world literature, having won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. ... Brer Rabbit is the hero of the Uncle Remus stories derived from African-American folktales of the US South. ... Anthony Dymoke Powell (December 21, 1905 - March 28, 2000) is a writer most remembered for his A Dance to the Music of Time duodecalogy published between 1951 and 1975. ... Rudy Henry Wiebe (born 4 October 1934) is a Canadian author and professor emeritus, Department of English at the University of Alberta since 1992. ... James Jones (November 6, 1921 – May 9, 1977) is an American author most famous for his explorations of World War II and its aftermath. ... Anna Kavan (born April 10, 1904 as Helen Emily Woods, died 1968) was an author. ...

Births

Deaths

• February 22 - Elizabeth Bowen, novelist
• March 6 - Pearl S. Buck
• March 26 - Sir Noel Coward, dramatist and humorist
• April 9 - Warren Lewis, author, Inkling, and brother of C. S. Lewis
• April 28 - Jacques Maritain, philosopher
• June 9 - John Creasey, author
• June 30 - Nancy Mitford, English novelist and biographer
• July 29 - Henri Charrière, Papillon author
• September 2 - J. R. R. Tolkien, fantasy writer
• September 23 - Pablo Neruda, poet
• September 29 - W. H. Auden, poet
• October 28 - Sergio Tofano, dramatist
• December 9 - Anthony Gilbert, crime writer

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Awards

• Booker Prize: J. G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur
• See 1973 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Hugo Award: Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves
• Nebula Award: Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Jean Craighead George, Julie of the Wolves
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Patrick White
• Prix Goncourt: Jacques Chessex, L'Ogre
• Prix Médicis French: Tony Duvert, Paysage de fantaisie
• Prix Médicis International: Milan Kundera, Life Is Elsewhere
• 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*Viareggio Prize: Achille Campanile, Manuale di conversazione