Events
- March 5 - Tennessee Williams' 1938 play, Not About Nightingales, receives its stage première.
- November 18 - Alice McDermott wins the National Book Award with her novel Charming Billy.
- Following the death of Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, there is a gap of several months before a successor is appointed.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“The system was breaking down. The one who had wandered alone past so many happenings and events began to feel, backing up along the primal vein that led to his center, the beginning of hiccup that would, if left to gather, explode the center to the extremities of life, the suburbs through which one makes one’s way to where the country is.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)