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The year 1937 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

EVENTS

January 9 - The first issue of '' Look Magazine '' goes on sale in the United States .

Thomas Quinn Curtiss meets Klaus Mann .

NEW BOOKS

Eric Ambler - '' Uncommon Danger ''

Georges Bernanos - '' Diary Of A Country Priest ''

Morley Callaghan - '' More Joy In Heaven ''

Agatha Christie - '' Death On The Nile ''

Murray Constantine - '' Swastika Night ''

A. J. Cronin - '' The Citadel ''

Isak Dinesen - '' Out Of Africa ''

Zona Gale - '' Light Woman ''

Witold Gombrowicz - '' Ferdydurke ''

Zora Neale Hurston - '' Their Eyes Were Watching God ''

Meyer Levin - '' The Old Bunch ''

Cameron McCabe - '' The Face On The Cutting-Room Floor ''

Elliot Paul - '' Life And Death Of A Spanish Town ''

Ruth Sawyer - '' Roller Skates ''

Olaf Stapledon - '' Star Maker ''

John Steinbeck - '' Of Mice And Men ''

J. R. R. Tolkien - '' The Hobbit ''

Waters Edward Turpin - '' These Low Grounds ''

Virginia Woolf - '' The Years ''

NEW DRAMA

Karel Čapek - '' The White Disease ''

J. B. Priestley - '' Time And The Conways ''

NON-FICTION

Hilaire Belloc - ''The Crusades: the World's Debate''

Alf K. Berle and L. Sprague De Camp - '' Inventions And Their Management ''

Napoleon Hill - '' Think And Grow Rich ''

Walter Lippmann - '' The Good Society ''

Eric Partridge - ''A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English''

BIRTHS

January 1 - John Fuller , poet

January 7 - Ian La Frenais , TV comedy writer

January 9 - Judith Krantz , bestselling novelist

February 21 - Jilly Cooper , novelist and journalist

April 29 - Jill Paton Walsh , novelist

May 8 - Thomas Pynchon , novelist

May 13 - Roger Zelazny , American writer of Fantasy and Science Fiction

May 13 - Roch Carrier , novelist and short-story writer

June 16 - Erich Segal , ''Love Story'' author

July 3 - Tom Stoppard , dramatist

August 5 - Carla Lane , comedy writer

September 5 - Dick Clement , TV comedy writer

November 17 - Peter Cook , comedian, satirist and writer

''date unknown'' - David F. Case , American writer

''date unknown'' - Richard Ingrams , editor

''date unknown'' - Jan Karon , novelist

''date unknown'' - Roger McGough , poet

DEATHS

February 19 - Horacio Quiroga , short story writer

March 15 - H. P. Lovecraft , horror writer

March 25 - John Drinkwater , poet and novelist

June 19 - J. M. Barrie , novelist and dramatist

August 11 - Edith Wharton , writer

September 13 - Ellis Parker Butler , novelist

October 22 - Nakahara Chuya , poet

October 31 - Ralph Connor , novelist

December 24 - Elizabeth Haldane

December 26 - Ivor Gurney , war poet

December 29 - Don Marquis , poet

''date unknown''

--- Frederic Taber Cooper , editor

--- Gerald Duckworth , publisher

--- Edward Garnett , critic

--- W. F. Harvey , short story writer

--- William F. Lloyd , newspaper editor

--- H. C. McNeile ("Sapper"), "Bulldog Drummond" novelist

AWARDS

, ''Highland River''

, ''Roller Skates''

, George S. Kaufman , ''You Can't Take It With You''

: ''A Further Range''

- '' Gone With The Wind ''