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The year 1931 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

  • Cherokee
    Cherokee

    The Cherokee are a Native Americans in the United States people orginally from the Southeastern United States . They are linguistically connected to speakers of the Iroquoian language....
     playwright Lynn Riggs
    Lynn Riggs

    Rollie Lynn Riggs was an author, poet and playwright born on a farm near Claremore, Oklahoma. His mother was 1/8th Cherokee, and when he was two years old, his mother secured his Cherokee Allotment for him....
    ' play Green Grow the Lilacs
    Green Grow the Lilacs (play)

    Green Grow the Lilacs is a 1931 play by Lynn Riggs named for the popular folk song of the Green Grow the Lilacs. It was performed 64 times on Broadway theatre, opening on January 26, 1931 and closing March 21, 1931....
     premiers. It would later be adapted by Rodgers and Hammerstein
    Rodgers and Hammerstein

    Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II were a well-known United States songwriter duo, usually referred to as Rodgers and Hammerstein....
     as Oklahoma!
    Oklahoma!

    Oklahoma! is the first musical theater written by Rodgers and Hammerstein. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs' 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs ....
    .
  • The very first Inspector Maigret novel is published under the title Pietr-le-Letton
    Pietr-le-Letton

    Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett , a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon, is the very first novel to feature Inspector Jules Maigret who would later feature in more than a hundred stories by Simenon and who has become a legendary figure in the annals of detective fiction....
    . Georges Simenon
    Georges Simenon

    Georges Joseph Christian Simenon was a Belgium writer who wrote in French language. He is best known for the creation of the fictional detective Jules Maigret....
     would eventually write 75 novels, as well as 28 short stories, featuring the pipe-smoking detective.
  • October 4 - Debut appearance of the Dick Tracy
    Dick Tracy

    File:Dicktracy10121941.jpgDick Tracy is a long-running comic strip featuring a popular and familiar character in United States pop culture. Dick Tracy is a hard-hitting, fast-shooting, and supremely intelligent police detective who has matched wits with a variety of colorful List of Dick Tracy villain debutss, many based o...
     comic strip
    Comic strip

    A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story.Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a comics artist or cartoonist, and many such strips are published on a recurring basis in newspapers and on the Internet....
    , created by cartoonist
    Cartoonist

    A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. Traditionally much of this work was, and still is, humorous, and is intended primarily for entertainment purposes....
     Chester Gould
    Chester Gould

    Chester Gould was a U.S. cartoonist and the creator of the Dick Tracy comic strip, which he wrote and drew from 1931 to 1977. Gould was known for his use of colorful, often monstrous, villains....
    .


New books

  • Shmuel Yosef Agnon
    Shmuel Yosef Agnon

    Shmuel Yosef Agnon was a Nobel Prize in literature laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon. In English, his works are published under the name S....
     - The Bridal Canopy
  • Margery Allingham
    Margery Allingham

    Margery Louise Allingham was an England crime writer born in Ealing, London, who produced many novels, Short story and Play , mainly in the detective fiction and Mystery fiction genres....
     - Police at the Funeral
    Police at the Funeral

    Police at the Funeral is a Crime fiction by Margery Allingham, first published in October 1931 in literature, in the United Kingdom by Heinemann , London and in 1932 in literature in the United States by Doubleday , New York....
  • Pearl S. Buck
    Pearl S. Buck

    Pearl Sydenstricker Buck also known as Sai Zhen Zhu , was a prolific United States sinologist and Pulitzer Prize for the Novel American writer....
     - The Good Earth
    The Good Earth

    The Good Earth is a novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1931 in literature and awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1932. It is the first book in a trilogy that includes Sons and A House Divided ....
  • Edgar Rice Burroughs
    Edgar Rice Burroughs

    Edgar Rice Burroughs was an United States author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter , although he produced works in many genres....
    • A Fighting Man of Mars
      A Fighting Man of Mars

      A Fighting Man of Mars is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel, the seventh of his famous Barsoom series. Burroughs began writing it on February 28, 1929, and the finished story was first published in Blue Book Magazine as a six-part serial in the issues for April to September, 1930....
    • Tarzan the Invincible
      Tarzan the Invincible

      Tarzan the Invincible is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the fourteenth in his series of books about the title character Tarzan. The novel was originally serialized in the magazine Blue Book from October, 1930 through April, 1931 as "Tarzan, Guard of the Jungle."...
  • Morley Callaghan
    Morley Callaghan

    Edward Morley Callaghan, Order of Canada, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada was a Canada novelist, short story writer, playwright, Television and radio personality....
     - No Man's Meat
  • Willa Cather
    Willa Cather

    Willa Sibert Cather was an United States author who grew up in Nebraska. She is best known for her depictions of frontier life on the Great Plains in novels such as O Pioneers!, My ?ntonia, and The Song of the Lark....
     - Shadows on the Rock
    Shadows on the Rock

    Shadows on the Rock is a novel by the American literature writer Willa Cather. The novel is set in 17th century Quebec describing the quiet, isolated life of Cecile Auclair and her father, the town apothecary....
  • Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth - The Cat Who Went to Heaven
    The Cat Who Went to Heaven

    The Cat Who Went to Heaven is a 1930 novel by Elizabeth Coatsworth that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in United States children's literature in 1931....
  • A. J. Cronin
    A. J. Cronin

    Archibald Joseph Cronin was a Scotland novelist, dramatist and writer of non-fiction who was one of the most renowned storytellers of the twentieth century....
     - Hatter's Castle
    Hatter's Castle

    Hatter's Castle is the first novel of author A.J. Cronin. The story is set in 1879, in the fictional town of Levenford, on the Firth of Tay/Tay estuary....
  • E. E. Cummings
    E. E. Cummings

    Edward Estlin Cummings , popularly known as E. E. Cummings, was an Poetry of the United States, painter, essayist, author, and playwright....
     - CIOPW
    CIOPW

    CIOPW is a collection of artwork by E. E. Cummings published in 1931. The title is an anagram of the five mediums Cummings used to produce the collection: charcoal, ink, oil, pencil, and watercolours....
  • Detection Club
    Detection Club

    The Detection Club was formed in 1928 by a group of British Mystery fiction writers including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Freeman Wills Crofts, Arthur Morrison, John Rhode Jessie Louisa Rickard and H....
     - The Floating Admiral
    The Floating Admiral

    The Floating Admiral is a collaborative detective novel written by members of the Detection Club in 1931. The contributors included G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L....
  • William Faulkner
    William Faulkner

    William Faulkner was a Nobel Prize in Literature-winning United States author. One of the most influential writers of the 20th century, his reputation is based on his novels, novellas and short story....
    • Sanctuary
      Sanctuary (novel)

      Sanctuary is a novel by the American author William Faulkner. It is considered one of his more controversial, given its theme of rape. First published in 1931, it was Faulkner's commercial and critical breakthrough, establishing his literary reputation....
    • These 13
      These 13

      These 13 is a collection of Short story written by William Faulkner, and dedicated to his first daughter Alabama, who died nine days after her birth on January 11, 1931, and to his wife Estelle....
  • Jessie Redmon Fauset
    Jessie Redmon Fauset

    Jessie Redmon Fauset was an United States editor, poet, essayist and novelist. She was the most prolific African American novelist of the Harlem Renaissance....
     - The Chinaberry Tree
  • Emma Goldman
    Emma Goldman

    Emma Goldman was an anarchism known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century....
     - Living My Life
    Living My Life

    Living My Life is the 993-page autobiography of Lithuanian-born anarchist Emma Goldman, published in two volumes in 1931 and 1934 . Goldman wrote it in Saint-Tropez, France, following her disillusionment with the Bolshevik role in the October revolution....
  • Caroline Gordon
    Caroline Gordon

    Caroline Ferguson Gordon was a notable United States novelist and literary critic who, while still in her thirties, was the recipient of two prestigious literary awards, a 1932 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 1934 O....
     - Penhally
  • Dashiell Hammett
    Dashiell Hammett

    Samuel Dashiell Hammett was an United States author of hardboiled detective fiction novels and short stories. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade , Nick and Nora Charles , and the Continental Op ....
     - The Glass Key
    The Glass Key

    The Glass Key is a novel by Dashiell Hammett, said to be his favorite among his works. It was first published in 1931, and tells the story of gambler and racketeer Ned Beaumont, whose devotion to crooked political boss Paul Madvig leads him to investigate the murder of a local senator's son as a potential gang war brews....
  • Georgette Heyer
    Georgette Heyer

    Georgette Heyer was an England historical romance and detective fiction novelist. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story for her younger brother into the novel The Black Moth....
     - The Conqueror
    The Conqueror (novel)

    The Conqueror is a novel written by Georgette Heyer....
  • James Hilton
    James Hilton

    James Hilton was an Academy Award-winning England novelist, and author of several best-sellers including Lost Horizon and Goodbye Mr. Chips....
     - Murder at School
    Murder at School

    Murder at School is a detective fiction by James Hilton first published in 1931 in literature. It was released in the United States the following year under the title, Was It Murder?....
  • Knud Holmboe
    Knud Holmboe

    Knud Valdemar Gylding Holmboe was a Denmark journalist and explorer who converted to Islam after travels in North Africa. Born in Horsens he travelled to Morocco as a young man, in order to familiarize himself with Islam and learn the Arabic language....
     - Desert Encounter
    Desert Encounter

    Desert Encounter is a book written by the Denmark journalist Knud Holmboe who had converted to Islam.Desert Encounter describes a trip across the Sahara made in 1930 by Knud Holmboe in an old Chevrolet....
  • Fannie Hurst
    Fannie Hurst

    Fannie Hurst was an United States novelist. Although her books are not well remembered today, during her lifetime some of her more famous novels were Stardust , Lummox , A President is Born , Back Street , and Imitation of Life ....
     - Back Street
  • Francis Iles - Malice Aforethought
    Malice Aforethought

    Malice Aforethought is a murder mystery novel written by Anthony Berkeley Cox, using the pen name Francis Iles. It involves a Devon physician who slowly poisons his domineering wife so that he may be with the woman he loves....
  • Dennis F. Imbert - The Colored Gentlemen, A Product of Modern Civilization
  • Erich Kästner
    Erich Kästner

    Erich K?stner was one of the most famous German language literature, screenplay writers, and Satire of the 20th century. His popularity in Germany is primarily due to his humorous and perceptive children's literature and his often satirical poetry....
     - The 35th of May, or Conrad's Ride to the South Seas
  • Carolyn Keene
    Carolyn Keene

    Carolyn Keene is the pseudonym of the author of the Nancy Drew mystery stories and The Dana Girls mystery stories, both produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate....
     - The Secret of Shadow Ranch
  • Nancy Mitford
    Nancy Mitford

    Nancy Freeman-Mitford, Order of the British Empire , styled The Hon. Nancy Mitford before her marriage and The Hon. Mrs Rodd thereafter, was an England novelist and biographer, one of the "Bright Young Things" on the London social scene in the inter-war years....
     - Highland Fling
  • Thomas Mofolo
    Thomas Mofolo

    Thomas Mokopu Mofolo is considered to be the greatest Basotho author. He wrote mostly in the Sesotho language, but his most popular book, Chaka , has been translated into English and other languages....
     - Chaka
    Chaka (novel)

    Chaka is the most famous novel by the writer Thomas Mofolo of Lesotho. Written in Sotho language, it is a mythic retelling of the story of the rise and fall of the Zulu emperor-king Shaka....
  • Leopold Myers - Prince Jali
  • Ilf and Petrov
    Ilf and Petrov

    Ilya Ilf and Evgeny or Yevgeny Petrov were two Soviet Union prose authors of the 1920s and 1930s. They did much of their writing together, and are almost always referred to as "Ilf and Petrov"....
     - The Little Golden Calf
    The Little Golden Calf

    The Golden Calf is a famous satirical novel by Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov. Its main character, Ostap Bender, also appeared in a previous novel of the authors called The Twelve Chairs....
  • Anthony Powell
    Anthony Powell

    Anthony Dymoke Powell, Companion of Honour, Order of the British Empire was an English novelist best known for his twelve-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975....
     - Afternoon Men
    Afternoon Men

    Afternoon Men is the first published novel by the English writer Anthony Powell. In its characters and themes it anticipates some of the ground Powell would cover in his masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time, a twelve-volume cycle spanning much of the 20th century....
  • Ellery Queen
    Ellery Queen

    File:Ellery Queen NYWTS.jpgEllery Queen is both a fictional character and a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn, New York: Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay and Manford Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee , to write detective fiction....
     - The Dutch Shoe Mystery
    The Dutch Shoe Mystery

    The Dutch Shoe Mystery is a novel that was written in 1931 by Ellery Queen. It is the third of the Ellery Queen Mystery fiction....
  • Arthur Ransome
    Arthur Ransome

    Arthur Mitchell Ransome was an England author and journalist.He is best known for writing the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books....
     - Swallowdale
    Swallowdale

    Swallowdale is the second book in the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome. It was published in 1931. In this book, camping in the hills and moorland country around Ransome's Lake in the North features much more prominently and there is less sailing....
  • Erich Remarque - The Road Back
    The Road Back

    The Road Back is a novel by Germany author Erich Maria Remarque. The novel was first serialized in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung between December 1930 and January 1931, and published in book form in April 1931 in literature....
  • Dorothy Sayers - Strong Poison
    Strong Poison

    Strong Poison is a 1931 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her fifth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey....
  • George S. Schuyler - Black No More
    Black No More

    Black No More is a Harlem Renaissance era satire on American race relations by George Schuyler . He targets both the Ku Klux Klan and NAACP in condemning the ways in which race functions as both an obsession and a commodity in early twentieth-century America....
  • Nevil Shute
    Nevil Shute

    Nevil Shute Norway was both a popular novelist and a successful aeronautical engineer. He used Nevil Shute as his pen name, and his full name in his engineering career, in order to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels ....
     - The Lonely Road
  • Georges Simenon
    Georges Simenon

    Georges Joseph Christian Simenon was a Belgium writer who wrote in French language. He is best known for the creation of the fictional detective Jules Maigret....
      - Pietr-le-Letton
    Pietr-le-Letton

    Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett , a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon, is the very first novel to feature Inspector Jules Maigret who would later feature in more than a hundred stories by Simenon and who has become a legendary figure in the annals of detective fiction....
  • Upton Sinclair
    Upton Sinclair

    Upton Sinclair, Jr. , was a Pulitzer Prize-winning prolific United States author who wrote over 90 books in many genres and was widely considered to be one of the best investigators advocating Socialism views....
     - Roman Holiday
    Roman Holiday (novel)

    Roman Holiday is a 1931 novel by Upton Sinclair. This novel is of no relation to the Roman Holiday by Paramount Pictures starring Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn....
  • Sigrid Undset
    Sigrid Undset

    Sigrid Undset was a Norwegian language novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928.Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark, but her family moved to Norway when she was two years old....
     - Wild Orchid
  • Hugh Walpole
    Hugh Walpole

    Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole was an English novelist. A prolific writer, he published thirty-six novels, five volumes of short stories, two plays and three volumes of memoirs....
     - Judith Paris
  • Nathanael West
    Nathanael West

    Nathanael West was a US author, screenwriter and satirist....
     - The Dream Life of Balso Snell
    The Dream Life of Balso Snell

    The Dream Life of Balso Snell is a 1931 novel by United States author Nathanael West. West's first novel, it presents a young man's immature and cynical search for meaning in a series of dreamlike encounters inside the entrails of the Trojan Horse....
  • Virginia Woolf
    Virginia Woolf

    Adeline Virginia Woolf was an England novelist and essayist, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literature literature figures of the twentieth century....
     - The Waves
    The Waves

    The Waves, first published in 1931, is Virginia Woolf's most experimental novel. It consists of soliloquies spoken by the book's six characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis....
  • P.G. Wodehouse
    • Big Money
      Big Money (novel)

      Big Money is a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on January 30 1931 by Doubleday Doran, New York, and in the United Kingdom on March 20 1931 by Herbert Jenkins, London....
    • If I Were You
      If I Were You (novel)

      If I Were You is the title of a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on September 3 1931 by Doubleday Doran, New York, and in the United Kingdom on September 25 1931 by Herbert Jenkins, London....


New drama

  • Federico García Lorca
    Federico García Lorca

    Federico Garc?a Lorca was a Spain poet, dramatist and theatre director. An emblematic member of the Generation of '27, he was abducted and murdered by persons likely affiliated with the Nationalist cause at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War....
     - When Five Years Pass (written)
  • Eugene O'Neill
    Eugene O'Neill

    Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Nobel Prize in Literature. His plays are among the first to introduce into American drama the techniques of Realism , associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg....
     - Mourning Becomes Electra
    Mourning Becomes Electra

    Mourning Becomes Electra is a play cycle written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. The play premiered on Broadway at the Guild Theatre on 26 October 1931 where it ran for 150 performances before closing March 1932....
  • Dodie Smith
    Dodie Smith

    Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith was an England novelist and playwright....
     - Autumn Crocus
  • Thornton Wilder
    Thornton Wilder

    Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. His best known work is his play Our Town....
     - The Long Christmas Dinner
    The Long Christmas Dinner

    The Long Christmas Dinner is a play in one act written by United States novelist and playwright Thornton Wilder in 1931. In its first published form, it was included in the volume "The Long Christmas Dinner and Other Plays in One Act"....


Non-fiction

  • Ali Akbar Dehkhoda
    Ali Akbar Dehkhoda

    Allameh Ali Akbar Dehkhoda was a prominent Iranian linguist, and author of the most extensive dictionary of the Persian language ever published....
     et al - Dehkhoda Dictionary
    Dehkhoda Dictionary

    The Dehkhoda Dictionary is the largest comprehensive Persian language dictionary ever published, in 15 volumes . The complete work is an ongoing effort that entails over forty five years of efforts by Dehkhoda and a cadre of other experts....
     of the Persian language
    Persian language

    name=Persian|nativename=|pronunciation=[f??r'si]|image=|caption=Farsi in Perso-Arabic script |states= Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Bahrain....
  • Samuel Beckett
    Samuel Beckett

    Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish people writer, dramatist and poet. Beckett's work offers a bleak outlook on human culture and both formally and philosophically became increasingly minimalism....
     - Proust
  • W. Chapman & V.C.A. Ferraro - A New Theory of Magnetic Storms
    A New Theory of Magnetic Storms

    A New Theory of Magnetic Storms is a 1931 article in Nature magazine by W. Chapman and V.C.A. Ferraro which sought to explain the phenomenon of geomagnetic storms....
  • Julius Evola
    Julius Evola

    Julius Evola, also known as Baron Giulio Cesare Evola, was an Italy philosopher, esotericism, occultism, author, artist, poet, political activist, soldier and Traditionalist School....
     - The Hermetic Tradition
    The Hermetic Tradition

    La Tradizione ermetica nei suoi simboli, nella sua dotrina e nella sua ?arte regia?; translated as The Hermetic Tradition: Symbols and Teachings of the Royal Art....
  • Irma S. Rombauer
    Irma S. Rombauer

    Irma Starkloff Rombauer was the author of The Joy of Cooking. It is one of the world's most-published cookbooks, having been in print continuously since 1936....
     - The Joy of Cooking
    The Joy of Cooking

    The Joy of Cooking is one of the United States' most-published cookbooks, having been in print continuously since 1936 and with more than 18 million copies sold....


Births

  • January 6 - E. L. Doctorow
    E. L. Doctorow

    Edgar Lawrence Doctorow is an USA author whose critically acclaimed and award-winning fiction ranges through his country?s social history from the American Civil War to the present....
    , author
  • January 9 - Algis Budrys
    Algis Budrys

    Algis Budrys was a Lithuanian-United States science fiction author, editor, and critic. He was also known under the pen names "Frank Mason", "Alger Rome", "John A....
    , science fiction author
  • January 10 - Peter Barnes
    Peter Barnes

    Peter Barnes, , was an England Laurence Olivier Awards-winning playwright and screenwriter. His most famous work is the play The Ruling Class, which was made into a 1972 film for which Peter O'Toole received an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination....
    , playwright
  • January 17 - Mark Brandis
    Mark Brandis

    Nikolai von Michalewsky was a German writer and journalist best known for a series of science fiction novels published between 1970 and 1987....
    , journalist and science fiction author
  • January 27
    • John Hopkins
      John Hopkins (writer)

      John Hopkins was an England film and television writer.Born in London, he began his career as a studio manager for BBC Television in the 1950s, before establishing himself as a writer on the BBC's popular police drama Z-Cars during the early 1960s....
      , screenwriter
    • Mordecai Richler
      Mordecai Richler

      Mordecai Richler, Order of Canada was a Canada author, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and essayist. A leading critic called him "the great shining star of his Canadian literary generation" and a pivotal figure in the country's history....
      , author (d. 2001)
  • February 10 - Thomas Bernhard
    Thomas Bernhard

    Thomas Bernhard was an Austria playwright and novelist....
    , author (d. 1989)
  • February 11 - Larry Merchant
    Larry Merchant

    Larry Merchant is an American former sportswriter, a longtime commentator for HBO Sports presentations of HBO World Championship Boxing, Boxing After Dark and HBO pay-per-view telecasts, and is considered "the greatest television boxing analyst of all time" by ESPN Boxing analyst Dan Rafael....
    , author/boxing
    Boxing

    Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
     commentator
  • February 12 - Janwillem van de Wetering
    Janwillem van de Wetering

    Janwillem Lincoln van de Wetering was the author of a number of works in English and Dutch. He was particularly noted for his detective fiction, his most popular creations being Grijpstra and de Gier, a pair of Amsterdam police officers who figure in a lengthy series of novels and short stories....
    , crime writer
  • February 18
    • Johnny Hart
      Johnny Hart

      Johnny Hart was an United States cartoonist noted as the creator of the comic strip B.C. and co-creator of the strip The Wizard of Id....
      , cartoon
      Cartoon

      The word cartoon has various meanings, based on several very different forms of visual art and illustration. The term has evolved over time.The original meaning was in fine art, and there cartoon meant a preparatory drawing for a piece of art such as a painting or tapestry....
      ist
    • Toni Morrison
      Toni Morrison

      Toni Morrison , is a Nobel Prize in Literature-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic poetry themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed black characters; among the best known are her novels The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon , and Beloved , which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988...
      , writer, winner 1993 Nobel Prize in literature
      Nobel Prize in Literature

      The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" ....
  • February 19 - Robert Sobel
    Robert Sobel

    Robert Sobel was an United States professor of history at Hofstra University, and a well-known and prolific writer of business histories. He was also a chess Master, who represented the United States at the 1957 and 1958 Student chess Olympiads; he defeated thirteen-year-old future World Champion Bobby Fischer at Montreal 1956....
    , business writer
  • March 2 - Tom Wolfe
    Tom Wolfe

    Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr. , known as Tom Wolfe, is a best-selling United States author and journalist. He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s....
    , novelist
  • April 21 - Gabriel de Broglie
    Gabriel de Broglie

    Gabriel-Marie-Joseph-Anselme de Broglie-Revel is a France historian and statesman.He was elected to the Acad?mie fran?aise in 2001, replacing Alain Peyrefitte....
    , historian
  • April 29 - Robert Gottlieb
    Robert Gottlieb

    Robert Gottlieb is an United States writer and renowned editor in the book publishing business.Gottlieb is a graduate of Columbia University....
    , editor
  • June 12 - Robin Cook, British novelist
  • June 21 - Patricia Goedicke
    Patricia Goedicke

    Patricia Goedicke was an United States poet.Born Patricia McKenna in Boston, Massachusetts, she grew up in Hanover, New Hampshire, where her father was a resident psychiatrist at Dartmouth College....
    , poet
  • July 4 - Sébastien Japrisot
    Sébastien Japrisot

    S?bastien Japrisot was a French author, screenwriter and film director, born in Marseille. His pseudonym was an anagram of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, his real name....
    , novelist and screenwriter
  • July 7 - David Eddings
    David Eddings

    David Eddings is an United States author who has written several best-selling series of high fantasy novels. David Eddings' wife, Leigh Eddings, is uncredited as co-author on many of his early books, but he has since acknowledged that she contributed to them all....
    , American
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
     novelist
  • July 10
    • Nick Adams, screenwriter
    • Julian May, science fiction author
  • August 12 - William Goldman
    William Goldman

    William Goldman is an United Statesn novelist, playwright and two-time Academy Awards-winning screenwriter. He lives in New York City....
    , author
  • August 22 - Maurice Gee
    Maurice Gee

    Maurice Gee, born 1931 in Whakatane, New Zealand, is one of New Zealand's most distinguished novelists and was awarded the 1978 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Plumb....
    , novelist
  • September 22 - Fay Weldon
    Fay Weldon

    Fay Weldon Order of the British Empire is an England author, essayist and playwright, whose work has been associated with feminism. In her fiction, Weldon typically portrays contemporary women who find themselves trapped in oppressive situations caused by the patriarchy structure of Western, in particular British, society....
    , novelist
  • October 8 - Dennis Silk
    Dennis Silk

    Dennis Raoul Whitehall Silk, CBE, , is a former schoolmaster and international cricketer. He was also a close friend of the poet Siegfried Sassoon, about whom he has spoken and written extensively....
    , friend of Siegfried Sassoon
    Siegfried Sassoon

    Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, Commander of British Empire Military Cross was an English poetry and author. He became known as a writer of satire anti-war poetry during World War I....
     and Edmund Blunden
    Edmund Blunden

    Edmund Charles Blunden, Military Cross was an English poet, author and critic. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose....
  • October 19 - John le Carré
    John le Carré

    John le Carr? is an English author of spy fiction, several of which have been adapted for film and television. He worked for MI5 and MI6 in the 1950s and 1960s, before leaving the secret service to devote himself to writing after the success of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold....
    , novelist
  • November 18 - Nikoloz Janashia
    Nikoloz Janashia

    Nikoloz Janashia was a famous Georgia historian and public benefactor.He born in Tbilisi. His father was a noted Georgian historian, Academician Simon Janashia ....
    , historian


Deaths

  • January 26 - Graça Aranha
    Graça Aranha

    Jos? Pereira da Gra?a Aranha , was a Brazilian magistrate, diplomat and writer, a founder of the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 1897 and one of the pioneers of the Brazilian Modernism Movement....
    , Brazilian diplomat and writer (b. 1868)
  • March 27 - Arnold Bennett
    Arnold Bennett

    Enoch Arnold Bennett was an England novelist....
    , novelist (b. 1867)
  • April 4 - André Michelin
    André Michelin

    Andr? Michelin was aFrench people industrialist who, with his brother ?douard Michelin , founded the Michelin in 1888 in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand....
    , originator of the Michelin Guide (b. 1853)
  • April 10 - Khalil Gibran
    Khalil Gibran

    Khalil Gibran , was a Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer. Born in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon , as a young man he emigrated with his family to the United States where he studied art and began his literary career....
    , poet (b. 1883)
  • June 29 - Nérée Beauchemin
    Nérée Beauchemin

    Charles-N?r?e Beauchemin was a Qu?b?cois poet and physician.He published two volumes of his poetry: Les Floraisons Matutinales in 1897 and Patrie Intime in 1928....
    , poet (b. 1850)
  • July 2 - Harald Høffding
    Harald Høffding

    Harald H?ffding was a Denmark philosopher....
    , Danish philosopher (b. 1843)
  • August 1 - Bertha McNamara
    Bertha McNamara

    Bertha McNamara Bredt , was a Sydney-based Australian socialist agitator, feminist, pamphleteer, bookseller, and mother-in-law of Australian writer Henry Lawson....
    , pamphleteer and bookseller (b. 1853)
  • August 15 - Delfín Chamorro
    Delfín Chamorro

    Delfin Chamorro , was a special educator. He was the creator of a method of teaching the Spanish language....
    , poet and language teacher (b. 1863)
  • August 27 - Frank Harris
    Frank Harris

    Frank Harris was a naturalised American author of British origin, Editing, journalist and publisher who was friendly with many well-known figures of his day....
    , author and editor (b. 1856)
  • August 31 - Hall Caine
    Hall Caine

    Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire , usually known as Hall Caine, was a United Kingdom author....
    , author (b. 1853)
  • October 13 - Ernst Didring
    Ernst Didring

    Ernst Didring was an early 20th century author who wrote mainly of life in his home country of Sweden ....
    , Swedish writer (b. 1868)
  • October 21 - Arthur Schnitzler
    Arthur Schnitzler

    File:Arthur_Schnitzler_1912.jpgDr. Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrians Austrian literature and dramatist....
    , Austrian dramatist (b. 1862)
  • November 3 - Juan Zorrilla de San Martín
    Juan Zorrilla de San Martín

    Juan Zorrilla de San Mart?n was a Uruguayan epic poet and political figure ....
    , epic poet (b. 1855)
  • December 10 - Enrico Corradini
    Enrico Corradini

    Enrico Corradini was an Italy novelist, essayist, journalist and Nationalism political figure....
    , novelist, essayist and journalist (b. 1865)
  • December 26 - Melvil Dewey
    Melvil Dewey

    Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey was an American librarian and educator, and the inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification system of library classification....
    , inventor of the most widely-used library classification system (b. 1851)
  • December 27 - Alfred Perceval Graves
    Alfred Perceval Graves

    Alfred Perceval Graves , was an Ireland writer.The journalist Philip Graves , the poet and scholar Robert Graves and the writer Charles Patrick Graves were his sons, the last two by his second marriage to Amy, daughter of Heinrich von Ranke....
    , author and collector of songs and ballads (b. 1846)


Awards

  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize
    James Tait Black Memorial Prize

    Founded in 1919, the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are among the oldest and most prestigious book prizes awarded for literature written in the English language and are Britain's oldest literary awards....
     for fiction: Kate O'Brien
    Kate O'Brien

    Kate O'Brien , was an Irish people novelist and playwright. After the success of her play, Distinguished Villa in 1926, she took to full-time writing and was awarded the 1931 James Tait Black Prize for her novel Without My Cloak....
    , Without My Cloak
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize
    James Tait Black Memorial Prize

    Founded in 1919, the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are among the oldest and most prestigious book prizes awarded for literature written in the English language and are Britain's oldest literary awards....
     for biography: J. Y. R. Greig, David Hume
    David Hume

    David Hume was a Scotland philosopher, economist, historian and a key figure in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment....
  • Newbery Medal
    Newbery Medal

    The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association ....
     for children's literature
    Children's literature

    Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve and is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes exclude young-adult fiction, comic books, or other genres....
    : Elizabeth Coatsworth
    Elizabeth Coatsworth

    Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth was an United States of America author of children's fiction and poetry. Her novel The Cat Who Went to Heaven won the 1931 Newbery Medal....
    , The Cat Who Went to Heaven
    The Cat Who Went to Heaven

    The Cat Who Went to Heaven is a 1930 novel by Elizabeth Coatsworth that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in United States children's literature in 1931....
  • Nobel Prize for literature - Erik Axel Karlfeldt
    Erik Axel Karlfeldt

    Erik Axel Karlfeldt was a Sweden poet whose highly symbolist poetry masquerading as regionalism was popular and won him the Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously in 1931; he had refused it in 1918....
  • Pulitzer Prize for Drama
    Pulitzer Prize for Drama

    The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first awarded in 1918.From 1918 to 2006, the Drama Prize was unlike the majority of the other Pulitzer Prizes: during these years, the eligibility period for the drama prize ran from March 2 to March 1, to reflect the Broadway 'season' rather than being the calendar year....
    : Susan Glaspell
    Susan Glaspell

    Susan Keating Glaspell was a bestselling novelist and a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. She was a founding member of the Provincetown Players, one of the most important collaboratives in the development of modern drama in the United States....
    , Alison's House
  • Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
    Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

    The Pulitzer Prize in Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. However, Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards were presented in 1918 in poetry and 1919 in poetry....
    : Robert Frost
    Robert Frost

    Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech....
    : Collected Poems
  • Pulitzer Prize for the Novel
    Pulitzer Prize for the Novel

    The Pulitzer Prize for the Novel was a prize awarded between 1918 and 1947. In 1948, it was replaced by the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.* 1917 in literature: no award given...
    : Margaret Ayer Barnes
    Margaret Ayer Barnes

    Margaret Ayer Barnes was an American playwright, novelist, and short-story writer.She was educated at Bryn Mawr College, where she earned an A.B....
     - Years of Grace
    Years of Grace

    Years of Grace is a 1930 in literature novel by Margaret Ayer Barnes. It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1931.External links...