1937 in literature 1937 .Events January 9 – The first issue of Look magazine goes on sale in the United States. January 19 – BBC Television broadcasts The Underground Murder Mystery by J. Bissell Thomas from London, the first play to be written for television. February 6 – John Steinbeck's novella of the Great Depression , Of Mice and Men , appears in the United States. April – The Irish writers Elizabeth Bowen and Seán Ó Faoláin first meet, in London. May 14 – BBC Television broadcasts a 30-minute excerpt of Twelfth Night , the first known television broadcast of a Shakespeare piece. The cast includes Peggy Ashcroft and Greer Garson . May 21 – Penguin Books in the U.K. launches Pelican Books , a sixpenny paperback non-fiction imprint, with a two-volume edition of George Bernard Shaw's The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism . June *The British science fiction magazine Tales of Wonder first appears. *John Cowper Powys visits Sycharth , birthplace of Owain Glyndŵr , which inspires his 1940 novel Owen Glendower. June 30 – The New England Quarterly prints poems by a colonial American pastor, Edward Taylor , discovered by Thomas H. Johnson. Summer – American-born writer Thomas Quinn Curtiss meets German-born novelist Klaus Mann in Europe and they start a relationship. July *Buchenwald concentration camp in Nazi Germany is established around the Goethe Oak . *Rex Ingamells and other poets initiate the Jindyworobak Movement in Australian literature , in the magazine Venture. *The American academic librarian Randolph Greenfield Adams writes a controversial Library Quarterly essay, "Librarians as Enemies of Books", complaining of librarians downgrading books and scholarship in favor of other tasks. July 4 – The Lost Colony a historical drama by Paul Green , is first performed at an outdoor theater in the place where it is set: Roanoke Island, North Carolina . July 31 – Stephen Vincent Benét's post-apocalyptic short story "By the Waters of Babylon", inspired by April's Bombing of Guernica , is published in the U.S. The Saturday Evening Post as "The Place of the Gods". September 10 – The Soviet playwright Sergei Tretyakov commits suicide while under sentence of death at Butyrka prison in Moscow as part of the Great Purge . September 21 – J. R. R. Tolkien's juvenile fantasy novel The Hobbit , or There and Back Again is published in England by George Allen & Unwin on the recommendation of young Rayner Unwin . September 29 – The French playwright Antonin Artaud is expelled from Ireland. October 6 – The fictional Mrs. Miniver appears in a column on domestic life by Jan Struther for The Times, London. November 11 – BBC Television broadcasts Journey's End by R. C. Sherriff, 1928, set on the Western Front in 1918 , as the first full-length television adaptation of a stage play. Reginald Tate plays the lead, having long performed it in the theater. unknown dates'' *The National Library of Iran is inaugurated in Tehran . *The future novelist Angus Wilson becomes a book cataloguer at the British Museum Library in London.New books Fiction Felix Aderca – Orașele înecate Eric Ambler – Uncommon Danger Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay – Chander Pahar Vicki Baum – Love and Death in Bali Georges Bernanos – Mouchette Morley Callaghan – More Joy in Heaven John Dickson Carr – The Ten Teacups Agatha Christie – Hercule Poirot stories *Death on the Nile *Dumb Witness *Murder in the Mews Stuart Cloete – Turning Wheels Murray Constantine – Swastika Night A. J. Cronin – The Citadel James Curtis – There Ain't No Justice Ludovic Dauș – O jumătate de om Isak Dinesen – Out of Africa Pierre Drieu La Rochelle – Rêveuse bourgeoisie Lawrence Durrell – Panic Spring Hans Fallada – Wolf Among Wolves Max Frisch – An Answer from the Silence Zona Gale – Light Woman Witold Gombrowicz – Ferdydurke Sadegh Hedayat – The Blind Owl Ernest Hemingway – To Have and Have Not Robert Hichens – Daniel Airlie Katharine Hull and Pamela Whitlock – The Far-Distant Oxus Zora Neale Hurston – Their Eyes Were Watching God Michael Innes – Hamlet, Revenge! Franz Kafka – The Trial Irmgard Keun – After Midnight Kalki Krishnamurthy – Kalvaninn Kaadhali Halldór Laxness – Ljós heimsins – Part I, Heimsljós Alexander Lernet-Holenia *Der Mann im Hut *Mona Lisa Meyer Levin – The Old Bunch A. E. W. Mason – The Drum Cameron McCabe – The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor Compton Mackenzie – The East Wind of Love W. Somerset Maugham – Theatre R. K. Narayan – The Bachelor of Arts Elliot Paul – Life and Death of a Spanish Town Robert Prechtl – Titanic Ellery Queen – The Door Between "Kurban Said" – Ali and Nino Ruth Sawyer – Roller Skates Dorothy L. Sayers – Busman's Honeymoon Bruno Schulz – Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass Naoya Shiga – A Dark Night's Passing "Siburapha" – Behind the Painting Olaf Stapledon – Star Maker John Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men Rex Stout – The Red Box Antal Szerb – Journey by Moonlight Phoebe Atwood Taylor *Figure Away *Octagon House *Beginning with a Bash Mika Waltari – A Stranger Came to the Farm Winifred Watson – Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Charles Williams – Descent into Hell Virginia Woolf – The Years Francis Brett Young – They Seek a Country Children and young people Enid Blyton – The Adventures of the Wishing-Chair C. S. Forester – The Happy Return Eve Garnett – The Family from One End Street Hergé – The Broken Ear Kornel Makuszyński – Argument About Basia Carola Oman – Robin Hood Arthur Ransome – We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea Kate Seredy – The White Stag Dr. Seuss – And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street J. R. R. Tolkien – The Hobbit Laura Ingalls Wilder – On the Banks of Plum Creek Henry Winterfeld – Timpetill – Die Stadt ohne Eltern Drama Bertolt Brecht with Margarete Steffin – Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar Karel Čapek – The White Disease Paul Vincent Carroll – Shadow and Substance Jeffrey Dell – Blondie White Ian Hay – The Gusher Margaret Kennedy – Autumn Arthur Kober – "Having Wonderful Time" Robert McLellan – Jamie the Saxt Robert Morley – Goodness, How Sad J. B. Priestley – Time and the Conways Gerald Savory - George and Margaret Dodie Smith - Bonnet Over the Windmill John Van Druten – Gertie Maude Hella Wuolijoki writing as Juhani Tervapää – Juurakon Hulda John Ferguson, editor – Seven Famous One-Act Plays Poetry David Jones – In Parenthesis Isaac Rosenberg – Collected Works Non-fiction Hilaire Belloc – The Crusades: the World's Debate Alf K. Berle and L. Sprague de Camp – Inventions and Their Management Robert Byron – The Road to Oxiana Napoleon Hill – Think and Grow Rich Carl Jung – Dream Symbols of the Individuation Process Walter Lippmann – The Good Society Manuel Chaves Nogales – :es:A sangre y fuego|A sangre y fuego: Héroes, bestias y mártires de España George Orwell – The Road to Wigan Pier Eric Partridge – A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English Births January 1 – John Fuller , English poet January 7 – Ian La Frenais , English television comedy writer January 8 – Leon Forrest , African American novelist and essayist January 9 – Judith Krantz , American novelist January 13 – Jean D'Costa , Jamaican children's novelist January 14 – J. Bernlef, born Hendrik Jan Marsman, Dutch poet, novelist and translator January 22 – Joseph Wambaugh , American mystery novelist and non-fiction writer January 23 – Juan Radrigán , Chilean playwright February 11 – Maryse Condé , Guadeloupe historical fiction writer February 20 – George Leonardos , Greek journalist and novelist February 21 – Jilly Cooper , English novelist and journalist February 27 – Peter Hamm , German poet, author, journalist, editor and literary critic March 14 – Jan Karon , American novelist and children's writer March 15 – Valentin Rasputin , Russian writer April 10 – Bella Akhmadulina , Russian poet April 29 – Jill Paton Walsh , English novelist May 8 – Thomas Pynchon , American novelist May 13 *Roch Carrier, Canadian novelist and short-story writer *Roger Zelazny, American writer of fantasy and science fiction June 1 – Colleen McCullough , Australian novelist June 16 – Erich Segal , American novelist July 3 – Tom Stoppard , Czech-born English dramatist July 6 – Bessie Head , South African-born Botswanan fiction writer August 3 – Peter van Gestel , Dutch writer August 5 – Carla Lane , English comedy writer August 19 *Richard Ingrams, English editor *Alexander Vampilov, Russian dramatist September 5 – Dick Clement , English television comedy writer October 4 – Jackie Collins , English-born romance novelist October 7 – Christopher Booker , English journalist and editor November 9 *Roger McGough, English poet *S. Abdul Rahman, Tamil poet November 17 – Peter Cook , English comedian, satirist and writer December 3 – Binod Bihari Verma , Maithili man of letters December 11 – Jim Harrison , American novelist and poet December 22 *David F. Case, American novelist and short story writer *Charlotte Lamb, English romantic novelist unknown date – Parijat , Nepalese novelist and poetDeaths February 19 *Edward Garnett, English critic *Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan short story writer March 7 – Tomas O'Crohan , Irish Gaelic writer and fisherman March 8 – Albert Verwey , Dutch poet March 15 – H. P. Lovecraft, American horror writer March 25 – John Drinkwater , English poet and dramatist May 20 – Frederic Taber Cooper , American editor and writer June 4 – W. F. Harvey, English horror-story writer June 13 – William F. Lloyd, English-born Newfoundland journalist and prime minister June 19 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish novelist and dramatist June 22 – Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo , Malagasy poet July 18 – Julian Bell , English poet August 11 – Edith Wharton , American novelist and short-story writer August 14 – H. C. McNeile, English novelist and soldier September 13 – Ellis Parker Butler , American humorist, novelist and essayist October 16 – Jean de Brunhoff , French children's author and illustrator October 17 – Florence Dugdale , English children's writer, widow of Thomas Hardy October 22 – Chūya Nakahara , Japanese poet October 31 – Ralph Connor , Canadian novelist December 24 – Elizabeth Haldane , Scottish author, philosopher and suffragist December 26 – Ivor Gurney , English war poet and composer December 29 – Don Marquis , American poetAwards Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Eve Garnett , The Family From One End Street 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 in 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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