1944 in literature

1944 in literature

The year 1944 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

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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"
*John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson" - "He Wouldn't Kill Patience"
*Joyce Cary - "The Horse's Mouth"
*Edmund Crispin - "The Case of the Gilded Fly"
*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"
*Rex Stout - "Not Quite Dead Enough"
*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

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Forrest Reid, "Young Tom"
* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: C. V. Wedgwood, "William the Silent"
* Newbery Medal for children's literature: Esther Forbes, "Johnny Tremain"
* Nobel Prize for literature: Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
* Premio Nadal (first award): Carmen Laforet, "Nada"
* Pulitzer Prize for Drama: "no award given"
* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Vincent Benét, "Western Star"
* Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Martin Flavin, "Journey in the Dark"
* E. E. Cummings receives the Shelley Memorial Award for Poetry.


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