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The year 1932 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

EVENTS

E. V. Knox replaces Sir Owen Seaman as editor of ''Punch'' magazine.

Samuel Beckett 's first novel, ''Dream of Fair to Middling Women'', is rejected by several publishers.

W. B. Yeats rents a house in Dublin.

The New Poetry ( Thơ Mới ) period began, marked by an article and a poem of Phan Khôi, beginning Modern Literature in Vietnam.

NEW BOOKS

Laura Adams Armer - '' Waterless Mountain ''

Henry Bellamann - '' The Richest Woman In Town ''

John Buchan - '' The Gap In The Curtain ''

Pearl S. Buck - '' Sons ''

Edgar Rice Burroughs - '' Tarzan Triumphant ''

Erskine Caldwell - '' Tobacco Road ''

Morley Callaghan - '' A Broken Journey ''

Louis-Ferdinand Céline - '' Journey To The End Of The Night ''

Colette - '' Le Pur Et L'Impur ''

A. J. Cronin - '' Three Loves ''

John Dos Passos - '' 1919 ''

William Faulkner - '' Light In August ''

Lion Feuchtwanger - '' Josephus ''

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Lewis Grassic Gibbon - '' Sunset Song ''

Stella Gibbons - '' Cold Comfort Farm ''

Ellen Glasgow - '' The Sheltered Life ''

Herman Hesse - '' Journey To The East ''

Aldous Huxley - '' Brave New World ''

W. Somerset Maugham - '' The Narrow Corner ''

Nancy Mitford - '' Christmas Pudding ''

Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall - '' Mutiny On The Bounty ''

Anthony Powell - '' Venusberg ''

Damon Runyon - '' Guys And Dolls ''

Isaac Bashevis Singer - '' Satan In Goray ''

Thorne Smith - ''Topper Takes a Trip''

Wallace Thurman - '' Infants Of The Spring ''

Sigrid Undset

---'' Burning Bush ''

---'' The Son Avenger ''

Hugh Walpole - '' The Fortress ''

Evelyn Waugh - '' Black Mischief ''

Laura Ingalls Wilder - ''Little House in the Big Woods''

Charles Williams - '' The Greater Trumps ''

NEW DRAMA

Elias Canetti - ''Die Hochzeit (The Wedding)''

Noel Coward - '' Design For Living ''

George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber - '' Dinner At Eight ''

Marcel Pagnol - '' Fanny ''

POETRY

W. H. Auden - ''The Orators''

Cecil Day-Lewis - ''From Feathers To Iron''

''An " Objectivist 's" Anthology''

Boris Pasternak - ''The Second Birth''

NON-FICTION

Henri Bergson - ''Les deux sources de la morale et de la religion (The Two Sources of Morality and Religion)''

Bernard DeVoto - ''Mark Twain's America''

T. S. Eliot - '' Selected Essays, 1917-1932 ''

John Steinbeck - '' The Pastures Of Heaven ''

BIRTHS

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January 18 - Robert Anton Wilson , author

February 7 - Gay Talese , author

March 18 - John Updike , novelist and poet

March 31 - John Jakes , novelist

May 7 - Jenny Joseph , poet

June 5 - Christy Brown , ''My Left Foot'' author (d. 1981)

August 17 - V. S. Naipaul , novelist

September 7 - Malcolm Bradbury , novelist (d. 2000)

October 27 - Sylvia Plath , poet

''unknown date'' - Troy Kennedy Martin , scriptwriter

DEATHS

January 21 - Lytton Strachey , biographer

February 10 - Edgar Wallace , crime writer

March 16 - Harold Monro , poet

April 20 - Giuseppe Peano , philosopher

April 26 - Hart Crane , poet

May 22 - Augusta, Lady Gregory , dramatist

June 17 - Sir John Quick , politician and author

July 6 - Kenneth Grahame , ''Wind in the Willows'' author

July 20 - René Bazin , novelist

July 22 - J. Meade Falkner , ''Moonfleet'' author

November 23 - Henry S. Whitehead , American author

AWARDS

, ''Boomerang''

, ''Waterless Mountain''

, Morrie Ryskind , Ira Gershwin , ''Of Thee I Sing''

: ''The Flowering Stone''

: ''The Good Earth''