The Golden Savage, a romance novel by Anne
Carsley (Pinnacle Books).
Wine with Food: A Guide to Entertaining through the Seasons, by Barbara
Ensrud (Congdon & Weed).
Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection, Volume
II: The Letters, and Volume III, The De Gaulle Story, by William
Faulkner, edited by Robert W.
Hamblin and Louis Daniel Brodsky (University Press of Mississippi).
Faulkner and Hollywood: A Retrospective from the Brodsky Collection,
by Robert W. Hamblin and Louis
Daniel Brodsky (Southeast Missouri State University).
Vision in Springs, poems by William
Faulkner, edited by Judith Sensibar (University of Texas Press).
Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories, by Ellen
Gilchrist (Little, Brown).
Music Lesson: Stories, by Martha
Lacy Hall (University of Illinois Press).
Television broadcast premiere of A Streetcar Named Desire, based on the play by Tennessee Williams.
Steve Barthelme receives the Transatlantic Review Award for Fiction.
Eudora Welty receives an American Book Award for One Writer's Beginnings and a Common Wealth Award for Distinguished Service in Literature from the Modern Language Association of America;
she is also nominated for National Book Critics Circle Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize nominations for One Writer's Beginnings.