Events Deliverance by American poet James Dickey published. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. New Books Ali and Nino - Kurban Said Ball Four - Jim Bouton The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison The Crystal Cave - Mary Stewart Deliverance - James Dickey The Fall of the Towers (Trilogy) - Samuel R. Delany Fifth Business - Robertson Davies Frederick the Great - Nancy Mitford The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight - Jimmy Breslin Great Lion of God - Taylor Caldwell A Happy Death (La Mort heureuse) - Albert Camus I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou Inside the Third Reich - Albert Speer Julia and the Bazooka - Anna Kavan Kamouraska - Anne Hébert Love Story - Erich Segal The Naked Face - Sidney Sheldon The National Dream - Pierre Berton Only the Ball was White - Robert Peterson QB VII - Leon Uris Ringworld - Larry Niven The Trumpet Of The Swan - E.B. White Travels with My Aunt - Graham Greene Births Deaths April 11 - John O'Hara, novelist Awards Booker Prize: Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member See 1970 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. Hugo Award: Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness Nebula Award: Larry Niven, Ringworld Newbery Medal for children's literature: William H. Armstrong, Sounder Nobel Prize for Literature: Alexander Solzhenitsyn Prix Goncourt: Michel Tournier , Le Roi des Aulnes Prix Médicis French: Camille Bourniquel, Sélinonte ou la Chambre impériale Prix Médicis International: Luigi Malerba, Saut de la mort Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Charles Gordone, No Place To Be Somebody Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Jean Stafford, Collected Stories Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Richard Howard, Untitled Subjects Viareggio Prize: Nello Saito, Dentro e fuori
