Events The Destiny Waltz by Gerda Charles wins England's first Whitbread Novel of the Year Award. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner is published. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. New Books Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman - Ernest J. Gaines Being There - Jerzy Kosinski The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath The Betsy - Harold Robbins Bonecrack - Dick Francis The Book of Daniel - E.L. Doctorow Books Do Furnish a Room - Anthony Powell Crow - Ted Hughes The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth Death of the Fox - George Garrett The Drifters - James A. Michener The End of Summer - Rosamunde Pilcher The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty Grendel - John Gardner Honor Thy Father - Gay Talese In a Free State - V.S. Naipaul The Last Spike - Pierre Berton Lives of Girls and Women - Alice Munro The Naive and Sentimental Lover - John le Carré The Other - Thomas Tyron The Passions of the Mind - Irving Stone Rabbit Redux - John Updike St. Urbain's Horseman - Mordecai Richler A Scarcity of Love - Anna Kavan Sergeant Getulio - Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro A Theory of Justice - John Rawls The Winds of War - Herman Wouk The Winter of the Fisher - Cameron Langford Wheels - Arthur Hailey Births Deaths April 10 - André Billy, French author Awards Booker Prize: V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State Newbery Medal for children's literature: Betsy Bears, Summer of the Swans Nobel Prize for Literature: Pablo Neruda Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Paul Zindel, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: no award given Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William S. Merwin, The Carrier of Ladders
