1938 In Literature

EVENTS

The trilogy, '' U.S.A. '' by John Dos Passos , is published containing his three novels '' The 42nd Parallel '' (1930), '' 1919 '' (1932), and '' The Big Money '' (1936).

Jorge Luis Borges is injured in an accident and develops blood poisoning in December. While recovering next year he will write the first short story in his later characteristic style.

Samuel Beckett 's first completed novel '' Murphy '' is published.

NEW BOOKS

'' All This And Heaven Too '' - Rachel Field

'' Anthem '' - Ayn Rand

'' Aunt Sara's Wooden God '' - Mercedes Gilbert

'' Being Geniuses Together, 1920-1930 '' – Robert McAlmon

'' Beyond The River '' - George Hamlin Ross

'' The Bridge In The Jungle '' - B. Traven

'' Brighton Rock '' - Graham Greene

'' Cause For Alarm '' - Eric Ambler

'' Count Belisarius '' - Robert Graves

'' The Death Of The Heart '' - Elizabeth Bowen

'' Dynasty Of Death '' - Taylor Caldwell

'' Epitaph For A Spy '' - Eric Ambler

'' Gas Light '' - Patrick Hamilton

'' Homage To Catalonia '' - George Orwell

'' Hope Of Heaven '' - John O'Hara

'' Invitation To A Beheading '' - Vladimir Nabokov

'' Lassie Come-Home '' - Eric Knight

'' Nausea '' (La Nausée) - Jean-Paul Sartre

'' Out Of Africa '' - Isak Dinesen

'' Out Of The Silent Planet '' - C. S. Lewis

'' Rebecca '' - Daphne Du Maurier

'' Scoop '' - Evelyn Waugh

'' U.S.A. Trilogy '' - John Dos Passos

'' The White Stag '' - Kate Seredy

'' The Yearling '' - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

NEW DRAMA

Jean Anouilh - '' Thieves' Carnival (Le bal des voleurs)''

Robert Ardrey - '' Casey Jones ''

Kaj Munk - ''Han sidder ved Smeltediglen''

Robert E. Sherwood - '' Abe Lincoln In Illinois ''

Rodolfo Usigli - ''The Gesticulator''

Thornton Wilder - '' Our Town ''

Emlyn Williams - '' The Corn Is Green ''

BIRTHS

February 12 - Judy Blume , author

April 29 - Larry Niven , author

July 19 - Dom Moraes , poet and columnist

October 12 - Anne Perry , historical novelist

October 13 - Hugo Young , journalist

''date unknown'' - Christopher Booker , journalist and editor

''date unknown'' - Charles L. Mee , dramatist

''date unknown'' - M. K. Wren , novelist

DEATHS

January 19 - Branislav Nušić , novelist and dramatist

March 1 - Gabriele D'Annunzio , poet and novelist

April 19 - Sir Henry Newbolt , poet

April 21 - Lady Ottoline Morrell , literary hostess

May 26 - James Forbes , dramatist and screenwriter

June 26 - James Weldon Johnson

June 26 - E. V. Lucas , essayist and biographer

August 7 - Konstantin Stanislavski , theatre director

September 15 - Thomas Wolfe , novelist

December 25 - Karel Čapek , science fiction author and dramatist

AWARDS

Hawthornden Prize - David Jones for ''In Parenthesis''

, ''The White Stag''

, ''Our Town''

: ''Cold Morning Sky''

- ''The Late George Apley''

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