Winners of 1962 National Book Awards Named
J F Powers won for MORTE D URBAN published by Doubleday. Leon Edel earned for HENRY JAMES from Lippincott. William Stafford won for TRAVELING THROUGH THE DARK from Harper and Row. Each received a $1,000 prize at the New York ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry James
National Book Committee
J. F. Powers
Morte D'Urban
Doubleday
Leon Ede
Lippincott
William Stafford
Harper & Row
Inspiring Voice George Washington Carver review
Rackham Holt’s expanded edition chronicles George Washington Carver from slavery to scientific fame. The biography highlights his peanut and sweet potato work and details his formative years, education delays, and the indignities he faced as a Black scientist in America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doubleday
George Washington Carver
Carver
Kansas
Ghosts End To Bugling Spoof Of Gettysburg Ride
Edmund G. Love presents a fantasy spoof of Gen Jeb Stuart's 1863 cavalry foray to mark Gettysburg centennial. The story follows 5000 Confederate ghosts reenacting raids under strict rules, causing misadventures with state police and National Guard as modern food tracks replace wagons. The tone pokes at Civil War solemnity with humorous scenes and outraged Daughters of the Confederacy.
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Jeb Stuart
Gettysburg
Love
Michael Archangel
Daughters of the Confederacy
National Guard
Surgeons Life Chiseled In Minute Details Of A Major Operation
A detailed biographical portrait of chest surgeon Matthew Carter begins at 6 45 am and ends at 2 55 pm as he performs a pivotal operation. The narrative uses flashbacks to reveal professional dilemma, hospital life, and the ethical questions of fees and patient care.
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Carter
Dr. Carter
Heinz
Best Sellers List Features Noted Fiction and Nonfiction
The list includes fiction titles such as Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters and Seymour An Introduction by Salinger along with The Sand Pebbles and Fail Safe. Nonfiction highlights Travels with Charley and Happiness Is a Warm Puppy, with The Fire Next Time and Silent Spring also listed.
Family Change THE GLASS BLOWERS review
Daphne du Maurier’s historical novel follows Mathurin Busson’s glass family from pre revolutionary prosperity to Napoleonic upheaval. Sophie narrates how brothers Pierre Michel and Edme and eldest Robert face fame, terror, emigration, and debt as France shifts. Robert’s grand ambitions unravel into tragedy.
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Mathurin Busson
Sophie
France
Pierre
Michel
Edme
Robert
London
Spring reading shifts toward fiction with strong titles
New York AP reports a dominant fiction season with notable novels and several nonfiction titles. Highlights include Daphne du Maurier The Glass Blowers, Thomas Pynchon V, Smith and Jones, Joy Adamson Forever Free, Toklas What Is Remembered, and Penelope by William G. Anderson alongside May releases by Sutcliffe, West, Murdoch, Bingham and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Daphne du Maurier
Doubleday
England
Joy Adamson
Harcourt
Gertrude Stein
Alice B. Toklas
Holt, Rinehart
Vladimir
Putnam
Berlin
Herbert Gold
Border Guard
McGraw-Hill
Joseph H. Peck
Prentice-Hall
Literary Guild
Rosemary Sutcliffs
Coward McCann
Artos the Bear
Morrow
Morris L. West
Iris Murdoch
Viking
Seacoast
Charlotte Bingham
Random House
London
Verdi Requiem Concert Highlighted By Local Groups
The High Point Junior League and High Point College present Verdi Requiem at Memorial Auditorium with 175 choir voices, four soloists, and the Winston-Salem Symphony Orchestra under John Suele. Churches cancel midweek rehearsals for the event.
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High Point
High Point Junior League
High Point College
All Souls
Palestrina
Victoria
Francesco Anerio
Orazio Vecchi
Mozart
Gossec
Cherubini
Berlioz
Bruckner
Dvorak
Verdi Verdi
Loyers
Brahms
Memorial Auditorium
Winston - Salem Symphony Orchestra
John Suele
Ehrenburgs Voice of Revolt Resists Soviet Pressure
Ilya Ehrenburg, 72, once a Stalin era literary ally, stands as a controversial figure in Moscow. He defends his Jewish identity, critiques modern art, and defies Khrushchev era constraints while continuing to publish memoir chapters and fight for artistic independence.
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Moscow
Ilya Ehrenburg
Stalin
Ehrenberg
Valdimir Yermilov
Izvestia
Khrushchev
Law
Alexei Adzhubei
Ehrenburg
Novy Mir
New World
Robert Rafaelovich Falk
Falk
Siberia
Leonid Klyichev
Yermilov
Hitler
Russia
William Price Fox Rises From Columbia to New York Literary Circles
Former Columbia Western Union messenger known as Billy Fox drafts philosophy and fiction in New York. His collection Southern Fried draws praise from Hutchens and others. books include Mr Golf and Moonshine Light Moonshine Bright. Fox reports heavy demand, with TV script offers and a possible musical adaptation.
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Columbia
S. C
Columbia Western Union
New York
William Price Fox
Billy
Western Union
John K. Hutchens
The
Herald Tribune
Walt Kelley
Harpers
Fox
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Messengers
Assembly Street
Main Street
Billy Fox
State Penitentiary
Nevernever Land
Imperial Hotel
Columba “Worth
Hutchens
Herald Tribune Review
South Carolina
William Price
Jack Trulick
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Powers
Elizabeth Hardwick
Harry Levin
Gore Vidal
America
Jacksonville, Ill
Marquette University
St. Cloud
Minn
Prince OF Darkness
Grace
New Yorker Magazine
Edel
James
William L. Lawrence
Walter Lord
Harry T. Moore
Pittsburgh
New York University
Washington Square College
National Institute of Arts and Letters
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Stafford
Rolfe Humphries
Henry Rage
Reed Whittemore
George Washington
Rackham Holt
Joseph L. Benham
Edmund G. Love
Surgeon
W. C
Seymour
Salinger
McKenna
Burdick and Wheeler
Knebel and Bailey
Stewart
Charley
Steinbeck
Happiness
Schulz
Baldwin
Hopper
Brough
Silent Spring
Carson
Fiction
Nabokov
Thomas Pyncheon
Nicholas Monsarrat
Jacques- Yves Cousteau
James Dugan
China
Emily Hahn
Laurence Stallings
the Doughboys
AEF
Harper
Samuel Eliot Morrison
Little, Brown
U. S. Navy
Don Whitehead
Orches
Germany
Hamburger
Clara Schumann
Robert Schumann
Vienna
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