National Book Awards expand categories for 1964
The National Book Awards will add five categories this year with a $1,000 prize in fiction poetry history and biography arts and letters and science philosophy and religion. Winners are announced March 10 in New York City with five judging boards led by notable scholars and writers.
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American Booksellers Assn
American Book Publishers Council
Book Manufacturers’ Institute
United States
New York City
John Cheever
Robie Macauley
Philip Rahv
The
Wapshot Chronicle
Cheever
Macauley
Kenyon Review
Rahv
Bradeis University
Partisan Review
Jean Garrigue
Anthony Hecht
John Hall Wheelock
Benjamin DeMott
James Thomas Flexner
C. Vann Woodward
Yale University
Charles Rose
John K. Sherman
Wylie Sypher
Simmons College
Houston Peterson
Rutgers
Paul B. Sears
George N. Shuster
University of Notre Dame
J. F. Powers
D’urban
Leon Edel
Henry James
William Stafford
Robert Marks
Foote’s Civil War Narrative Second Volume Reviewed
Shelby Foote advances from Fort Sumter to mid 1864 in a vivid report of Civil War events. The review praises his objective, fact driven tone and notes contrasts with Catton and Nevins. Robert D. Price lauds Foote’s masterful, colorful yet restrained chronicle.
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Fredericksburg
Meridian
Shelby Foote
Foote
Fort Sumter
Braxton Bragg
Joe Hooker
Tysburg
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
U. S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Bruce Catton
The Best Sellers List of Diverse Fiction and Nonfiction
The list features fiction titles such as Shoes of the Fisherman Caravans the Venetian Affair The Living Reed and nonfictions including Mandate for Change The American Way of Death Rascal JFK the Man and the Myth I Own Russia and related works. Readers see varied authors including Michener Buck Eisenhower Milford North Lasky Hope.
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Shoes OF the
Michener
MacInnes
Buck
Eisenhower
Milford Rascal
North Jfk
Lasky
Russia
Hope
Captured Colonel Von Ryan's Express
A rattling good suspense tale follows Colonel Joseph Ryan a strict POW camp commander in Italy He earns both resentment and admiration for his hard discipline and later outsmarts Nazis to divert a train with a thousand prisoners toward safety in a tense plausible adventure narrative
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Joseph Ryan
Italy
von Ryan
Red Cross
Ryan
Death of Bishop of Brindisi Opera Debuts and Plans
Menotti’s new cantata The Death of the Bishop of Brindisi, premiered in Cincinnati last year, published now and scheduled for many performances including an East Coast debut at Tanglewood under Erich Leinsdorf. Yehudi Menuhin to direct Bath festival production of Martin’s Lie. Lorne Munroe named solo cellist of the New Munroe Orchestra. The New York Philharmonic’s second program features Copland and Austin works as Bernstein highlights jazz influences with The Four Seasons. Austin, born 1930, noted for improvisations and Kennedy era art funding context.
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Gian Carlo Menotti
Brindisi
Cincinnati
Max Rudif
Ene
Tanglewood
Erich Leinsdorf
Newra
Boston
Catalonia
British Museum
London
Menotti
New York Philharmonic
Stein
Bernstein
Aaron Copland
Larry Austin
New York
the Philharmonic
Vivaldi
John Corigliano
Mendelssohn
Copland
Philharmonis
Austin
Miller returns with After the Fall at Lincoln Center
Arthur Miller, ending an eight year Broadway hiatus, prepares After the Fall as the centerpiece of Lincoln Center repertory. He splits with Elia Kazan over politics yet looks to a fruitful collaboration in a new permanent theater. The play stars Jason Robards Jr. with a 25 member company, opening January 23 in a temporary NYU venue ahead of a 1965 Lincoln Center home.
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New York
Arthur Miller
Broadway
Miller
Lincoln Center
Kazan
Robert Whitehead
Lincoln
Germany
Marilyn Monroe
Jason Robards Jr
Salome Jens
Zahra Lampert
Paul Mann
Ralph Meeker
S. N. Behrman
Charlie
O'Neill
Marco Millions
Lincoln Center For the Performing Arts
American National Theater and Academy
Washington Square
New York University
William Glover
Sunday Puzzle Clues Pack in a Fragment
Puzzle fragment lists multiple clues with numbers and brief definitions including foods, names, and abbreviations. It reads like a partial crossword or puzzle page note with entries such as growing thriving and feminine name, along with a Monterey Bay city hint and military address abroad abbreviation.
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Colleente
Onterey Bay
Life Of Donne a Historical Novel Of Love And Faith
Elizabeth Gray Vining portrays John Donne from age 24 to 44 focusing on his courtship with Anne More and the ruin of his career. The novel traces his shift from youthful libertine to sober churchman against the Elizabethan Jacobean backdrop. Fans of historical fiction will want this book high on their list.
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Elizabeth Gray Vining
Lippincott
Church of England
John Donne
Donne
London
Earl of Essex
Thomas Egerton
Anne
Sir George
Egerton
High Point Bookmobile Schedule for Jan 13 to 17
The High Point Public Library announces the weekly bookmobile routes. Monday through Friday include multiple stops at College Village, Gatewood, Emery Road, Lindale, Gordon, Cedrow, Barbee, Woodrow, Brentwood, Friddle Street and Wesley Place with specified time slots each day.
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High Point Public Library
College Village
Council
Gatewood
Emery Road
Hillcrest
Overbrook
Emerywood
Lindale
Locust
Gordon
Kimrey
Cedrow
Arlington
Brentwood
Lowe
Friddle Street
Austin Street
Wesley Place
E. Russell
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Doubleday
University of California In
Davis
North Texas State University
Catholic University of America
Richard H. Werder
Washington
D, C
Melnikov
Ruth
Wisconsin
Rhodes
Guam
Country
Mr. Serling
Frees Ounpenta
Jane
Fis
Europe
Kennedy
Carr
Rotary
Westwood
Otteray
Rockspring Road
Eaton Place
Brantley Circle
W. Farriss
Barbee
Fifth Street
W. College
North Drive
Woodrow
Forrest
Blain
Farriss
Terrell Drive
Kimmons
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