1938 In Literature

The year 1938 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

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

Margery Allingham - '' The Fashion In Shrouds ''

Eric Ambler

---'' Cause For Alarm ''

---'' Epitaph For A Spy ''

Vladimir Bartol - '' Alamut ''

Elizabeth Bowen - '' The Death Of The Heart ''

Edgar Rice Burroughs - '' Tarzan And The Forbidden City ''

Taylor Caldwell - '' Dynasty Of Death ''

Agatha Christie - '' Hercule Poirot's Christmas ''

René Daumal - '' A Night Of Serious Drinking ''

Isak Dinesen - '' Out Of Africa ''

John Dos Passos - '' U.S.A. Trilogy ''

Daphne Du Maurier - '' Rebecca ''

Rachel Field - '' All This And Heaven Too ''

Robert Graves - '' Count Belisarius ''

Graham Greene - '' Brighton Rock ''

Eric Knight - '' Lassie Come-Home ''

C. S. Lewis - '' Out Of The Silent Planet ''

Henry Miller - '' Tropic Of Capricorn ''

Vladimir Nabokov - '' Invitation To A Beheading ''

John O'Hara - '' Hope Of Heaven ''

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - '' The Yearling ''

Emilio Lussu - ''Un anno sull'altopiano''

Ayn Rand - '' Anthem ''

Jean-Paul Sartre - '' La Nausée ''

Kate Seredy - '' The White Stag ''

Esphyr Slobodkina - '' Caps For Sale : A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business''

B. Traven - '' The Bridge In The Jungle ''

Evelyn Waugh - '' Scoop ''

Nathanael West - '' The Day Of The Locust ''

T. H. White - '' The Sword In The Stone ''

Virginia Woolf - '' Three Guineas ''

NEW DRAMA

Jean Anouilh - '' Thieves' Carnival (Le bal des voleurs)''

Robert Ardrey - '' Casey Jones ''

Patrick Hamilton - '' Gas Light ''

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 ''

POETRY

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NON-FICTION

Hall Caine - '' Life Of Christ '' - published post-humously

Cyril Connolly - '' Enemies Of Promise ''

Geoffrey Faber - ''The Romance of a Bookshop 1904-1938''

Robert McAlmon - '' Being Geniuses Together, 1920-1930 ''

Thomas Mann - '' The Coming Victory Of Democracy ''

George Orwell - '' Homage To Catalonia ''

BIRTHS

February 12 - Judy Blume , children's author

April 29 - Larry Niven , sci-fi author

May 13 - Norma Klein , author

July 19

--- Nicholas Bethell , historian

--- Dom Moraes , poet and columnist

October 12 - Anne Perry , historical novelist

October 13 - Hugo Young , journalist

December 14 - Leonardo Boff , philosopher and theologian

''date unknown''

--- Christopher Booker , journalist and editor

--- Charles L. Mee , dramatist

--- 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''

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