- 1939 in literature
The year 1939 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
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December 25 - "A Christmas Carol " is read before aradio audience for the first time.
*Frank Herbert lies about his age to get his first job as a localnewspaper reporter .
*Jean-Paul Sartre is drafted into theFrench Army .
*Robert A. Heinlein 's first publishedshort story appears in "Astounding Magazine ".New books
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Eric Ambler - "The Mask of Dimitrios "
*Sholem Asch - "The Nazarene"
*William Attaway - "Let Me Breathe Thunder"
*Arna Wendell Bontemps - "Drums at Dusk"
*Pearl S. Buck - "The Patriot"
*Edgar Rice Burroughs - "Tarzan the Magnificent"
*John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson" - "The Reader is Warned "
*Aime Cesaire - "Cahier d'un Retour au Pays Natal"
*Raymond Chandler - "The Big Sleep "
*Agatha Christie
**"And Then There Were None "
**"Murder is Easy "
*William Faulkner - "If I Forget Thee Jerusalem (The Wild Palms/Old Man) "
*Vardis Fisher - "Children of God"
*Zona Gale - "Magna "
*Henry Green - "Party Going"
*Ernest Hemingway - "The Snows of Kilimanjaro "
*Zora Neale Hurston - "Moses, Man Of The Mountain"
*Aldous Huxley - "After Many a Summer "
*James Joyce - "Finnegans Wake "
*Arthur Koestler - "The Gladiators"
*Richard Llewellyn - "How Green Was My Valley "
*H. P. Lovecraft - "The Outsider and Others "
*Lucy Maud Montgomery - "Anne of Ingleside "
*John O'Hara - "Files on Parade"
*George Orwell - "Coming Up for Air "
*Elliot Paul - "The Mysterious Mickey Finn"
*Ellery Queen - "The Dragon's Teeth "
*Katherine Anne Porter - "Pale Horse, Pale Rider "
*Clayton Rawson - "The Footprints on the Ceiling "
*Seymour Reit - "The Friendly Ghost "
*Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - "Wind, Sand and Stars (Terre des hommes)"
*John Steinbeck - "The Grapes of Wrath "
*Rex Stout - "Some Buried Caesar "
*Dalton Trumbo - "Johnny Got His Gun "
*S. S. Van Dine - "The Winter Murder Case "
*Elio Vittorini - "Conversations in Sicily " ("Conversazione in Sicilia")
*Ernest Vincent Wright - "Gadsby"New drama
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Philip Barry - "The Philadelphia Story "
*Bertolt Brecht - "Mother Courage and Her Children (Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder)"
*T. S. Eliot - "The Family Reunion "
*Lillian Hellman - "The Little Foxes "
*George S. Kaufman andMoss Hart -"The Man Who Came to Dinner "
*Joseph Kesselring - "Arsenic and Old Lace"
*Clare Boothe Luce - "Margin of ErroPoetry
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T. S. Eliot - "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats "
*Javier del Granado - "Rosas Pálidas (Pale Roses)"Non-fiction
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Lord David Cecil - "The Young Melbourne and the Story of his Marriage with Caroline Lamb"
*Savitri Devi - "A Warning to the Hindus "
*Erwin Panofsky - "Studies in Iconology "
*Ed Ricketts - "Between Pacific Tides "
*Ronald Syme - "The Roman Revolution "Births
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Michael Moorcock , Britishscience fiction author
*January 29 -Germaine Greer , feminist author
*April 12 -Alan Ayckbourn ,dramatist
*June 5 -Margaret Drabble ,novel ist
*August 1 -Robert James Waller , American novelist
*October 6 -Melvyn Bragg , novelist, critic andtelevision presenter
*October 9 -John Pilger ,journalist
*October 10 -Clive James , writer,humor ist andtelevision personality
*November 17 -Auberon Waugh , journalist and son ofEvelyn Waugh
*November 18 -Margaret Atwood , novelist andpoet
*"date unknown" -Ferdinand Mount , journalist and novelist
*"date unknown" -Iris Gower , romantic novelistDeaths
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Solomon Cleaver , storyteller and novelist
*January 28 -William Butler Yeats , poet
*February 18 -Okamoto Kanoko , tanka poet
*February 22 -Antonio Machado , poet
*March 7 -Ludwig Fulda
*March 23 -Richard Halliburton , travel writer
*April 11 -S. S. Van Dine ,crime fiction writer
*May 27 -Joseph Roth , novelist
*June 26 -Ford Madox Ford , novelist
*July 8 -Havelock Ellis , sexualpsychologist and controversial writer
*September -Ethel M. Dell , romantic novelist
*September 6 -Arthur Rackham ,book illustrator
*October 23 -Zane Grey , popular author of westerns
*December 2 -Llewelyn Powys ,biographer and autobiographerAwards
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James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction:Aldous Huxley "After Many a Summer Dies the Swan"
*James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography:David C. Douglas , "English Scholars"
*Newbery Medal forchildren's literature :Elizabeth Enright , "Thimble Summer "
*Nobel Prize for literature : Frans Eemil Sillanpää
*Pulitzer Prize for Drama :Robert E. Sherwood , "Abe Lincoln in Illinois "
*Pulitzer Prize for Poetry :John Gould Fletcher : "Selected Poems"
*Pulitzer Prize for the Novel :Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - "The Yearling "
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