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The year 1941 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

EVENTS

Frank Herbert marries Flora Parkinson.

F. Scott Fitzgerald 's unfinished work, '' The Last Tycoon '', is edited and published by Edmund Wilson .

NEW BOOKS

Margery Allingham - '' Traitor's Purse ''

William Attaway - '' Blood On The Forge ''

Frans Gunnar Bengtsson - '' The Long Ships '' (part 1)

Maurice Blanchot - '' Thomas L'obscure ''

James M. Cain - '' Mildred Pierce ''

Joyce Cary - '' Herself Surprised ''

Agatha Christie - '' Death Comes As The End ''

A. J. Cronin - '' The Keys Of The Kingdom ''

L. Sprague De Camp - '' Lest Darkness Fall '' (Complete novel)

August Derleth - '' Someone In The Dark ''

Walter D. Edmonds - '' The Matchlock Gun ''

Katheryn Campbell Graham - '' Under The Cottonwood ''

Robert A. Heinlein - '' Methuselah's Children ''

James Hilton - '' Random Harvest ''

C.S. Lewis - '' The Screwtape Letters ''

Janet Lewis - '' The Wife Of Martin Guerre ''

Robert McCloskey - '' Make Way For Ducklings ''

Hugh MacLennan - '' Barometer Rising ''

W. Somerset Maugham - '' Up At The Villa ''

Oscar Micheaux - '' The Wind From Nowhere ''

Vladimir Nabokov - '' The Real Life Of Sebastian Knight ''

Flann O'Brien - '' An Béal Bocht ''

E. Phillips Oppenheim - '' The Shy Plutocrat ''

H. A. Rey and Margret Rey - '' Curious George ''

Budd Schulberg - '' What Makes Sammy Run? ''

Armstrong Sperry - '' Call It Courage ''

Eudora Welty - '' A Curtain Of Green ''

Franz Werfel - '' The Song Of Bernadette ''

Virginia Woolf - '' Between The Acts '' (posthumously)

NEW DRAMA

Noel Coward - '' Blithe Spirit ''

POETRY

W.H. Auden - ''New Year Letter'' (British edition of 'The Double Man')

William Rose Benét - ''The Dust which is God''

Laurence Binyon - ''The North Star and Other Poems''

G. S. Fraser - ''The Fatal Landscape and Other Poems''

BIRTHS

March 13 - Donella Meadows , ''Limits to Growth'' author

April 10 - Paul Theroux , novelist and travel writer

May 19 - Nora Ephron , novelist and screenwriter

June 5 - Spalding Gray , screenwriter and dramatist

June 27 - James P. Hogan , science fiction author

September 1 - Gwendolyn MacEwen , Canadian poet

October 2 - John Sinclair , poet

October 4 - Anne Rice , horror/fantasy writer

October 13 - John Snow , cricketer and poet

October 25 - Anne Tyler , novelist

''date unknown'' - Pepetela , novelist

''date unknown'' - Miles Kington , journalist

DEATHS

January 4 - Henri Bergson , writer

January 6 - F. R. Higgins , poet

January 13 - James Joyce , writer

January 23 - John Oxenham , novelist and poet

February 7 - Banjo Paterson , poet

February 9 - Elizabeth Von Arnim , novelist

March 28 - Virginia Woolf , author

June 1 - Hugh Walpole , novelist

June 15 - Evelyn Underhill , poet

August 7 - Rabindranath Tagore , author

November 18 – Émile Nelligan , poet

AWARDS

, ''Call It Courage''

Nobel Prize For Literature : not awarded

, ''There Shall Be No Night''

: ''Sunderland Capture''

Pulitzer Prize For The Novel : ''no award given''