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The year 1942 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

EVENTS

André Gide leaves France to live in Tunis.

Robertson Davies becomes editor of the '' Peterborough Examiner ''.

Thomas Mann emigrates to California.

James Hilton wins an Oscar for the screenplay of '' Mrs. Miniver ''.

'' The New York Times '' launches influential New York Times Best Seller List .

NEW FICTION BOOKS

Samuel Hopkins Adams - '' The Harvey Girls ''

Henry Bellamann - '' Floods Of Spring ''

Earl Birney - '' David ''

Jean Bruller - '' Le Silence De La Mer ''

Taylor Caldwell - '' The Strong City ''

Albert Camus - '' The Stranger '' (''L'Étranger'')

Joyce Cary - '' To Be A Pilgrim ''

Raymond Chandler - '' The High Window ''

Agatha Christie - '' Five Little Pigs ''

Lloyd C. Douglas - '' The Robe ''

Daphne Du Maurier - '' Frenchman's Creek ''

Rachel Field - '' And Now Tomorrow ''

Robert A. Heinlein - '' Beyond This Horizon ''

Kalki Krishnamurthy - '' Parthiban Kanavu ''

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

Janette Sebring Lowrey - '' The Poky Little Puppy ''

Beryl Markham - '' West With The Night ''

Robert Musil - '' The Man Without Qualities ''

Annie Greene Nelson - '' After The Storm ''

Raymond Queneau - '' Pierrot Mon Ami ''

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - '' Cross Creek ''

Nevil Shute - '' Pied Piper ''

Curt Siodmak - '' Donovan's Brain ''

Clark Ashton Smith - '' Out Of Space And Time ''

Evelyn Waugh - '' Put Out More Flags ''

Rebecca West - '' Black Lamb And Grey Falcon ''

Cornell Woolrich - '' Black Alibi ''

NEW DRAMA

Jean Anouilh - '' Antigone ''

Kaj Munk - '' Niels Ebbesen ''

Eugene O'Neill - '' A Touch Of The Poet '' - (not performed until 1958)

POETRY

T. S. Eliot - '' Little Gidding ''

NON-FICTION

Albert Camus - '' The Myth Of Sisyphus (Le Mythe de Sisyphe)''

Edith Hamilton - '' Mythology ''

Aldous Huxley - '' The Art Of Seeing ''

C.S. Lewis - '' A Preface To Paradise Lost ''

Elliot Paul - '' The Last Time I Saw Paris ''

Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. - '' Picketing Hell ''

Antoine De Saint-Exupéry - '' Flight To Arras ''

BIRTHS

January 31 - Derek Jarman , director, writer (+ 1994 )

February 1 - Terry Jones , comedian and writer

March 2 - John Irving , novelist

April 1 - Samuel R. Delany , novelist and critic

April 4 - Kitty Kelley , journalist and biographer

April 6 - Barry Levinson , screenwriter, director and producer

August 2 - Isabel Allende , novelist

August 7 - Garrison Keillor , ''Lake Wobegon Days'' author

October 23 - Michael Crichton , author

October 23 - Douglas Dunn , poet

December 6 - Peter Handke , Austrian novelist

''date unknown'' - Gladys Cardiff , poet

''date unknown'' - Craig Thomas , novelist

DEATHS

April 24 - Lucy Maud Montgomery , ''Anne of Green Gables'' novelist

May 26 - Libero Bovio , Neapolitan dialect poet

June 30 - Léon Daudet , journalist

July 20 - Moses Annenberg , publisher

September 19 - Condé Nast , magazine publisher

September 26 - Oskar Kraus , philosopher

October 14 - Cosmo Hamilton , dramatist and novelist

October 20 - Friedrich Münzer , classical scholar

''date unknown'' - Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson , ''Greyfriars Bobby'' author

''date unknown'' - Konstantin Balmont , poet

AWARDS

, ''The Matchlock Gun''

Nobel Prize For Literature : ''not awarded''

Pulitzer Prize For Drama : ''not awarded''

, ''The Dust Which Is God''

, ''In This Our Life''