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The year 1944 in literature involved some significant new books.

EVENTS

NEW BOOKS

Samuel Hopkins Adams - '' Canal Town ''

Jorge Amado - '' Terras Do Sem Fim (The Violent Land)''

Saul Bellow - '' Dangling Man ''

Jorge Luis Borges - '' The Book Of Imaginary Beings ''

Christianna Brand - '' Green For Danger ''

Joyce Cary - '' The Horse's Mouth ''

A. J. Cronin - '' The Green Years ''

Esther Forbes - '' Johnny Tremain ''

Jean Genet - '' Notre Dame Des Fleurs ''

Hayyim Hazaz - '' Thou That Dwellest In The Gardens ''

John Hersey - '' A Bell For Adano ''

Georgette Heyer - '' Friday's Child ''

Charles R. Jackson - '' The Lost Weekend ''

Astrid Lindgren - '' Pippi Longstocking ''

H.P. Lovecraft - '' Marginalia ''

W. Somerset Maugham - '' The Razor's Edge ''

Oscar Micheaux - '' The Case Of Mrs. Wingate ''

Alberto Moravia - '' Agostino '' (''Two Adolescents'')

Gunnar Myrdal - '' An American Dilemma ''

Annie Greene Nelson - '' The Dawn Appears ''

Feodor Rojankovsky - '' The Tall Book Of Nursery Tales ''

Clark Ashton Smith - '' Lost Worlds ''

Donald Wandrei - '' The Eye And The Finger ''

Henry S. Whitehead - '' Jumbee And Other Uncanny Tales ''

POETRY

James K. Baxter - '' Beyond The Palisade ''

Edwin James Bradley - '' Two Frontiers ''

Paul Éluard - '' Au Rendez-vous Allemand '' (''To the German Rendezvous'')

'' Five Young American Poets '', volume 3, including work by Eve Merriam , John Frederick Nims , Jean Garrigue , Tennessee Williams and Alejandro Carrión

Nicholas Moore - ''The Glass Tower''

NON-FICTION

Charles William Beebe - '' Book Of Naturalists ''.

Friedrich Hayek - '' The Road To Serfdom ''.

Max Horkheimer & Theodor W. Adorno - '' Dialectic Of Enlightenment ''.

Margaret Landon - '' Anna And The King Of Siam ''.

Gunnar Myrdal - '' An American Dilemma ''.

Charles Stevenson - '' Ethics And Language ''.

NEW DRAMA

Lawrence Riley - ''Time to Kill''

BIRTHS

January 8 - Terry Brooks , writer of Fantasy Fiction

January 21 - Jack Abbott , murderer and acclaimed writer

February 14

--- Alan Parker , director, writer

--- Carl Bernstein , journalist

February 16 - Richard Ford , Pulitzer Prize winning novelist

May 13 - Armistead Maupin , novelist

May 18 - W. G. Sebald , novelist (d. 2001)

June 5 - John Fraser , journalist

August 18 - Paula Danziger , young adult book novelist

August 30 - Molly Ivins , journalist

October 2 - Vernor Vinge , Science Fiction Novelist

October 5 - Tomás De Jesús Mangual , journalist

November 7 - Peter Wilby , journalist

November 24 - Eintou Pearl Springer , poet

November 28 - Rita Mae Brown , writer and political activist

December 17 - Jack L. Chalker , science fiction novelist

''date unknown''

--- Uldis Bērziņš , poet and translator

--- Witi Ihimaera , New Zealand Māori writer, author of '' The Whale Rider ''

--- Tom Leonard , dialect poet

--- Patrick O'Connell , poet (d. 2004)

DEATHS

January 6 - Ida M. Tarbell , journalist

January 8 - Joseph Jastrow , psychologist

January 31 - Jean Giraudoux , dramatist

February 10 - Israel Joshua Singer , Yiddish novelist

March 5

--- Max Jacob , poet and critic

--- Alun Lewis , war poet

March 28 - Stephen Leacock , economist

May 12 - Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch , "Q"

May 16 - George Ade , journalist and dramatist

June - Elizabeth Wharton Drexel , socialite and author

June 9 - Keith Douglas , war poet

June 16 - Marc Bloch , historian

July 31 - Antoine De Saint-Exupery , French pilot and writer

September 13 - W. Heath Robinson , cartoonist and illustrator

October 19 - Karel Poláček , writer, humourist, journalist

December 30 - Romain Rolland , Nobel Prize winning author

''date unknown''

--- Robert Nichols , poet and dramatist

--- Joseph Campbell , poet

--- Anica Černej , poet

--- Edith Durham , travel writer

--- Olive Custance , poet

--- Ethel Lina White , crime novelist

AWARDS

, ''Johnny Tremain''

, ''Nada''

Pulitzer Prize For Drama : ''no award given''

, ''Western Star''

, ''Journey in the Dark''

E. E. Cummings receives the Shelley Memorial Award for Poetry.