1937 in literature

1937 in literature

The year 1937 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

*January 9 - The first issue of "Look magazine" goes on sale in the United States.
*Thomas Quinn Curtiss meets Klaus Mann.

New books

*Eric Ambler - "Uncommon Danger"
*Georges Bernanos - "Diary of a Country Priest"
*Morley Callaghan - "More Joy in Heaven"
*John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson" - "The Ten Teacups"
*Agatha Christie - "Death on the Nile"
*Murray Constantine - "Swastika Night"
*A. J. Cronin - "The Citadel"
*Isak Dinesen - "Out of Africa"
*Zona Gale - "Light Woman"
*Witold Gombrowicz - "Ferdydurke"
*Zora Neale Hurston - "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
*Meyer Levin - "The Old Bunch"
*Cameron McCabe - "The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor"
*Elliot Paul - "Life and Death of a Spanish Town"
*Ellery Queen - "The Door Between"
*Ruth Sawyer - "Roller Skates"
*Olaf Stapledon - "Star Maker"
*John Steinbeck - "Of Mice and Men"
*Rex Stout - "The Red Box"
*J. R. R. Tolkien - "The Hobbit"
*Waters Edward Turpin - "These Low Grounds"
*Virginia Woolf - "The Years"

New drama

*Karel Čapek - "The White Disease"
*J. B. Priestley - "Time and the Conways"

Non-fiction

*Hilaire Belloc - "The Crusades: the World's Debate"
*Alf K. Berle and L. Sprague de Camp - "Inventions and Their Management"
*Napoleon Hill - "Think and Grow Rich"
*Walter Lippmann - "The Good Society"
*Eric Partridge - "A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English"

Births

* January 1 - John Fuller, poet
* January 7 - Ian La Frenais, TV comedy writer
* January 9 - Judith Krantz, bestselling novelist
* February 21 - Jilly Cooper, novelist and journalist
* April 29 - Jill Paton Walsh, novelist
* May 8 - Thomas Pynchon, novelist
* May 13 - Roger Zelazny, American writer of fantasy and science fiction
* May 13 - Roch Carrier, novelist and short-story writer
* June 16 - Erich Segal, "Love Story" author
* July 3 - Tom Stoppard, dramatist
* August 5 - Carla Lane, comedy writer
* September 5 - Dick Clement, TV comedy writer
* November 17 - Peter Cook, comedian, satirist and writer
* December 3 - Binod Bihari Verma, Maithili literateur
* "date unknown" - David F. Case, American writer
* "date unknown" - Richard Ingrams, editor
* "date unknown" - Jan Karon, novelist
* "date unknown" - Roger McGough, poet

Deaths

*February 19 - Horacio Quiroga, short story writer
*March 15 - H. P. Lovecraft, horror writer
*March 25 - John Drinkwater, poet and novelist
*June 19 - J. M. Barrie, novelist and dramatist
*August 11 - Edith Wharton, writer
*September 13 - Ellis Parker Butler, novelist
*October 22 - Nakahara Chuya, poet
*October 31 - Ralph Connor, novelist
*December 24 - Elizabeth Haldane
*December 26 - Ivor Gurney, war poet
*December 29 - Don Marquis, poet
*"date unknown"
**Frederic Taber Cooper, editor
**Gerald Duckworth, publisher
**Edward Garnett, critic
**W. F. Harvey, short story writer
**William F. Lloyd, newspaper editor
**H. C. McNeile ("Sapper"), "Bulldog Drummond" novelist

Awards

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Neil M. Gunn, "Highland River"
* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Lord Eustace Percy, "John Knox"
* Newbery Medal for children's literature: Ruth Sawyer, "Roller Skates"
* Nobel Prize for literature: Roger Martin du Gard
* Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman, "You Can't Take It With You"
* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Frost: "A Further Range"
* Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Margaret Mitchell - "Gone with the Wind"
* King's Gold Medal for Poetry: W. H. Auden


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