- 1942 in literature
The year 1942 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
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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 influentialNew York Times Best Seller list .New fiction books
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John Steinbeck - "The Moon is Down "
*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")
*John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson" - "The Gilded Man "
*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"
*Ellery Queen - "Calamity Town "
*Raymond Queneau - "Pierrot mon ami "
*Clayton Rawson - "No Coffin for the Corpse "
*Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - "Cross Creek"
*Nevil Shute - "Pied Piper"
*Curt Siodmak - "Donovan's Brain "
*Clark Ashton Smith - "Out of Space and Time "
*Rex Stout - "Black Orchids "
*Evelyn Waugh - "Put Out More Flags "
*Rebecca West - "Black Lamb and Grey Falcon "
*Cornell Woolrich - "Black Alibi "New drama
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Jean Anouilh - "Antigone"
*Kaj Munk - "Niels Ebbesen "
*Eugene O'Neill - "A Touch of the Poet " - (not performed until 1958)Poetry
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T. S. Eliot - "Little Gidding "Non-fiction
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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
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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, novelistDeaths
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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
*23 December -Konstantin Bal'mont , poet
*"date unknown" -Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson , "Greyfriars Bobby" authorAwards
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Carnegie Medal :Denys Watkins-Pitchford
*Frost Medal :Edgar Lee Masters
*James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction:Arthur Waley , Translation of "Monkey" byWu Cheng'en
*James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography:Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede , "Henry Ponsonby : Queen Victoria's Private Secretary"
*Newbery Medal forchildren's literature :Walter D. Edmonds , "The Matchlock Gun "
*Nobel Prize for literature : "not awarded"
*Pulitzer Prize for Drama : "not awarded"
*Pulitzer Prize for Poetry :William Rose Benet , "The Dust Which Is God"
*Pulitzer Prize for the Novel :Ellen Glasgow , "In This Our Life"
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