The King God Didn't Save: Reflections on the Life and Death of Martin
Luther King, Jr., by John
Alfred Williams (Coward).
Dragon Counting, A Book of Plays, by Tennessee
Williams (New Directions).
December 3:I Cant Imagine Tomorrow and Talk to Me Like
the Rain and Let Me Listen, by Tennessee
Williams, were televised together under the title Dragon Country
by New York Television Theatre.
Jerry Clower released
his first comedy album, Jerry Clower from Yazoo City, Mississippi Talkin,
through MCA Records.
Eudora Welty received
an Edward McDowell Medal, a Christopher Book Award for One Time, One Place:
Mississippi in the Depression; A Snapshot, and was nominated for a National
Book Award for Losing Battles.