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The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. Four books topped the list that year, the longest on top being Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter, which spent exactly half the year there – from April 29 to November 11, its last week at the top – though it continued in the top 15 best sellers for another 20 weeks.
This year we can only decide which books we enjoyed reading the most." [ 126 ] The Bookseller Discovery officially recognized "outstanding merit which failed to receive adequate sales and recognition" [ 127 ] The award stood alone for 1941 and the New York Times frankly called it "a sort of consolation prize that the booksellers hope will draw ...
The Award "will be made to outstanding books of fiction, drama, or poetry which require of the reader a degree of maturity to appreciate the topics, themes and scope of emotional involvement. Generally, books in this category will be appropriate in style and content for readers in their secondary years of schooling."
Kōbō Abe - The Woman in the Dunes; H. G. Adler – Eine Reise (A Journey) Nelson Algren (editor) – Nelson Algren's Own Book of Lonesome Monsters: 13 Masterpieces of Black Humor (anthology) Eric Ambler – The Light of Day; Isaac Asimov, editor – The Hugo Winners; James Baldwin – Another Country; J. G. Ballard – The Drowned World
Woman of the Year is a musical with a book by Peter Stone and score by John Kander and Fred Ebb.. Based on the Ring Lardner Jr.-Michael Kanin written, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy starring 1942 film, the musical changes the newspaper reporters of the original to television personality Tess Harding and cartoonist Sam Craig, who experience difficulty merging their careers with their marriage.
Rotolo is the woman walking with him on the cover of his 1963 album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, a photograph by the Columbia Records studio photographer Don Hunstein. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In her book A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties , Rotolo described her time with Dylan and other figures in the folk music and bohemian ...
It was completed in 1962, the same year as Monroe's death. [3] The image of Monroe is a direct copy of a close-up photograph, a publicity still from her 1953 film Niagara. [4] Gold Marilyn Monroe was included in Warhol's first show in New York, at the Stable Gallery in November 1962, where the architect Philip Johnson bought it.
The 4th Annual Grammy Awards were held on May 29, 1962, at Chicago, Los Angeles and New York. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1961. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1961.