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The year
1936 in literature
involved some significant events and new books.
EVENTS
''
Life Magazine
'' is first published.
NEW BOOKS
Eric Ambler
- ''
The Dark Frontier
''
Henry Bellamann
- ''
The Gray Man Walks
''
Gottfried Benn
- ''
The Trainee Man
''
André Billy
- ''
Quel Homme Es-tu
''
Arna Wendell Bontemps
- ''
Black Thunder
''
Elizabeth Bowen
- ''
The House In Paris
''
Carol Ryrie Brink
- ''
Caddie Woodlawn
''
Edgar Rice Burroughs
- ''
Tarzan's Quest
''
James M. Cain
- ''
Double Indemnity
''
Morley Callaghan
- ''
Now That April's Here And Other Stories
''
Karel Čapek
- ''
War With The Newts
''
Willa Cather
- ''
Not Under Forty
''
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- ''
Death On The Installment Plan
''
Robert P. Tristram Coffin
- ''
John Dawn
''
John Dos Passos
- ''
The Big Money
''
William Pène Du Bois
- ''
Otto At Sea
''
Daphne Du Maurier
- ''
Jamaica Inn
''
Walter D. Edmonds
- ''
Drums Along The Mohawk
''
Aldous Huxley
- ''
Eyeless In Gaza
''
Winifred Holtby
- ''
South Riding
''
Arthur Joseph
- ''
Dark Metropolis
''
Jonathan Latimer
- ''
The Lady In The Morgue
''
Andrew Lytle
- ''
The Long Night
''
Margaret Mitchell
- ''
Gone With The Wind
''
John A. Moroso
- ''
Nobody's Buddy
''
Ayn Rand
- ''
We The Living
''
Israel Joshua Singer
- ''
The Brothers Ashkenazi
''
John Steinbeck
- ''
In Dubious Battle
''
Ethel Lina White
- ''The Wheel Spins'' (later ''
The Lady Vanishes
'')
NEW DRAMA
Noel Coward
---''''
---''
Present Laughter
''
Federico García Lorca
- ''Doña Rosita la soltera''
Clare Boothe Luce
- ''
The Women
''
Terence Rattigan
- ''
French Without Tears
''
NON-FICTION
C. S. Lewis
- ''
The Allegory Of Love
''
Edwin Muir
- ''Scott and Scotland''
Olavi Paavolainen
- ''
Kolmannen Valtakunnan Vieraana
''
BIRTHS
January 10
-
Stephen Ambrose
, controversial historian
January 22
-
Joseph Wambaugh
, author
February 18
-
Jean M. Auel
, ''Earth's Children'' author
May 16
-
Kenneth Geist
, "Pictures Will Talk" author and critic
May 23
-
Ian Kennedy Martin
, scriptwriter
June 23
-
Richard Bach
, ''Jonathan Livingston Seagull'' author
July 22
-
Tom Robbins
, novelist
August 24
-
A. S. Byatt
, novelist
October 5
-
Václav Havel
, dramatist and first president of the
Czech Republic
November 17
-
John Wells
, satirical writer and actor
November 20
-
Don DeLillo
, United States novelist
''date unknown''
---
Andrew Davies
, TV and film writer
---
Duff Hart-Davis
, biographer and journalist
---
J. H. Prynne
, poet
DEATHS
January 18
-
Rudyard Kipling
, British writer -
Nobel Prize
for literature (
1907
)
March 16
-
Marguerite Durand
, journalist
April 30
-
A. E. Housman
, poet
June 11
-
Robert E. Howard
,
American
Fantasy
writer (suicide)
June 12
-
M. R. James
, writer of ghost stories
June 14
-
G. K. Chesterton
, author
June 14
-
Maxim Gorky
, dramatist
August 19
-
Federico García Lorca
, dramatist and poet
November 12
-
Stefan Grabinski
, "the Polish Poe"
December 10
-
Luigi Pirandello
, dramatist and novelist
December 28
-
John Cornford
, Communist poet
Grazia Deledda
,
Sardinia
n (
Italy
)
Writer
-
Nobel Prize
for literature (
1926
)
AWARDS
, ''
South Riding
''
, ''Caddie Woodlawn''
, ''Idiots Delight''
: ''Strange Holiness''
- ''Honey in the Horn''