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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''