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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

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---'' 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''