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The year 1940 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

EVENTS

Aldous Huxley is a screenwriter for the movie adaptation of '' Pride And Prejudice ''.

Jean-Paul Sartre is taken prisoner by the Germans.

Robertson Davies joins the Old Vic repertory company.

NEW BOOKS

Giorgio Bassani - '' Una Città Di Pianura

Henry Bellamann - '' King's Row ''

Karin Boye - '' Kallocain ''

Edgar Rice Burroughs - '' Synthetic Men Of Mars ''

Dino Buzzati - '' The Tartar Steppe (Il deserto dei Tartari)''

Erskine Caldwell - '' Trouble In July ''

Taylor Caldwell - '' The Earth Is The Lord's ''

Willa Cather - '' Sapphira And The Slave ''

Raymond Chandler - '' Farewell, My Lovely ''

Walter Clark - '' The Ox-bow Incident ''

James Daugherty - '' Daniel Boone ''

Georges Duhamel - '' Les Maîtres ''

Graham Greene - '' The Power And The Glory ''

Georgette Heyer - '' The Corinthian ''

Arthur Koestler - '' Darkness At Noon ''

Dorothy Kunhardt - '' Pat The Bunny ''

John M. Lee - '' Counter-Clockwise ''

Carson McCullers - '' The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter ''

John O'Hara - '' Pal Joey ''

Raymond Postgate - '' Verdict Of Twelve ''

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - '' When The Whippoorwill ''

Mikhail Sholokov - '' The Don Flows Home To The Sea ''

Dr. Seuss - '' Horton Hatches The Egg ''

C. P. Snow - '' George Passant '' (first of the '' Strangers And Brothers '' series)

Christina Stead - '' The Man Who Loved Children ''

Richard Wright -'' Native Son ''

NEW DRAMA

Agatha Christie - '' Peril At End House ''

Jean Cocteau - ''Le Bel Indifférent''

Lawrence Riley - ''Return Engagement''

George Shiels - ''The Rugged Path''

NON-FICTION

"Cato" ( Michael Foot and others) - '' Guilty Men ''

G. H. Hardy - '' A Mathematician's Apology ''

C. S. Lewis - '' The Problem Of Pain ''

A. A. Milne - ''War with Honour''

Edmund Wilson - '' To The Finland Station ''

BIRTHS

January 14 - Sir Trevor Nunn , theatre director

February 4 - George Romero , Horror Movie writer, producer, director

February 29 - Edward Frederic Benson , American writer

March 16 - Bernardo Bertolucci , Italian Writer and Film Director

March 28 - Russell Banks , novelist

April 15 - Jeffrey Archer , novelist

May 7 - Angela Carter , English Magical Realist author

May 8 - Peter Benchley , novelist

May 13 - Bruce Chatwin , travel writer

May 28 - Maeve Binchy , novelist

July 17 - Tim Brooke-Taylor , comedy writer and actor

October 20 - Robert Pinsky , poet

December 5 - Peter Pohl , novelist

DEATHS

January 5 - Humbert Wolfe , poet and epigrammist

January 27 - Isaac Babel , journalist and dramatist

February 29 - E. F. Benson , novelist

March 7 - Edwin Markham , poet

March 10 - Mikhaïl Boulgakov , Russian writer

March 16

--- Selma Lagerlöf , writer

--- Thomas Heath , historian and translator

June 10 - Marcus Garvey , journalist and publisher

June 20 - Charley Chase , screenwriter

September - W. H. Davies , poet and ''Supertramp''

December 21 - F Scott Fitzgerald

December 22 - Nathanael West

''date unknown'' - T. O'Conor Sloane , editor of ''Amazing Stories''

AWARDS

, ''Daniel Boone''

Nobel Prize For Literature : not awarded

, ''The Time of Your Life''

: ''Collected Poems''

- '' The Grapes Of Wrath ''