1938 in literature 1938 .Events January *The John Dos Passos trilogy U.S.A. is published, containing his novels The 42nd Parallel , 1919 , and The Big Money . *Samuel Beckett is stabbed in the chest in Paris and nearly killed. February 21 – The gay American writer and composer Paul Bowles marries the lesbian American writer Jane Auer at a Reformed Church in Manhattan . March 7 – Samuel Beckett's first completed novel Murphy is published in London. July 11 – The first live drama adaptation in Orson Welles' The Mercury Theatre on the Air series on CBS Radio in the United States is broadcast: Bram Stoker's Dracula . August – Muslims protest in London against passages they see as disrespectful to their religion in H. G. Wells' A Short History of the World . September 13 – The first production in Britain of a play by Bertolt Brecht , Mrs Carrar's Rifles , opens at the Unity Theatre, London . October 30 – Orson Welles' radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds is broadcast in The Mercury Theatre on the Air December 24 – Jorge Luis Borges is injured in an accident and develops blood poisoning. While recovering the following year he will write the first short story in his later characteristic style. Uncertain dates The first complete performance of both parts of Goethe's Faust is given at the Goetheanum in Dornach , Switzerland. The avant-garde musician and theoretician Pierre Schaeffer begins his writing career as an essayist for a number of French musical journals.New books Fiction Margery Allingham – The Fashion in Shrouds Eric Ambler *Cause for Alarm *Epitaph for a Spy Vladimir Bartol – Alamut Elizabeth Bowen – The Death of the Heart Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan and the Forbidden City Taylor Caldwell – Dynasty of Death John Dickson Carr *The Four False Weapons , Being the Return of Bencolin *To Wake the Dead *The Crooked Hinge *The Judas Window *Death in Five Boxes Peter Cheyney – Can Ladies Kill? Agatha Christie *Hercule Poirot's Christmas *Appointment with Death Albert Cohen – Nailcruncher René Daumal – A Night of Serious Drinking John Dos Passos – The Big Money Daphne du Maurier – Rebecca Lawrence Durrell – The Black Book Mircea Eliade – Marriage in Heaven William Faulkner – The Unvanquished Rachel Field – All This and Heaven Too C. S. Forester *A Ship of the Line *Flying Colours Julien Gracq – The Castle of Argol Robert Graves – Count Belisarius Graham Greene – Brighton Rock Xavier Herbert – Capricornia Robin Hyde – The Godwits Fly Emilio Lussu – Un anno sull'altopiano C. S. Lewis – Out of the Silent Planet Norman Lindsay – Age of Consent Henry Miller – Tropic of Capricorn Vladimir Nabokov *The Gift *Invitation to a Beheading Kate O'Brien – Pray for the Wanderer John O'Hara – Hope of Heaven Ellery Queen *The Devil to Pay *The Four of Hearts Graciliano Ramos – Vidas Secas Ayn Rand – Anthem Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings – The Yearling Clayton Rawson – Death from a Top Hat Joseph Roth – The Emperor's Tomb Jean-Paul Sartre – Nausea Georges Simenon – The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By Esphyr Slobodkina – Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business Eleanor Smith – The Spanish House John Steinbeck – The Long Valley Rex Stout – Too Many Cooks Kressmann Taylor – Address Unknown Phoebe Atwood Taylor *The Annulet of Gilt *Banbury Bog *The Cut Direct *Murder at the New York World's Fair B. Traven – The Bridge in the Jungle S. S. Van Dine – The Gracie Allen Murder Case Evelyn Waugh – Scoop T. H. White – The Sword in the Stone Gale Wilhelm – Torchlight to Valhalla Francis Brett Young – Dr. Bradley Remembers Children and young people Claire Huchet Bishop – The Five Chinese Brothers Enid Blyton – The Secret Island Eleanor Graham – The Children Who Lived in a Barn Joan Kahn – "Ladies and Gentlemen," said the Ringmaster Eric Knight – Lassie Come-Home Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings – The Yearling Kate Seredy – The White Stag Noel Streatfeild – The Circus Is Coming T. H. White – The Sword in the Stone John F. C. Westerman – John Wentley Takes Charge Ursula Moray Williams – Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse Drama Jean Anouilh – Thieves' Carnival Robert Ardrey – Casey Jones Paul Claudel – L'Histoire de Tobie et de Sara M. J. Farrell – Spring Meeting Patrick Hamilton – Gaslight Esther McCracken – Quiet Wedding Kaj Munk – Han sidder ved Smeltediglen J. B. Priestley – When We Are Married Robert E. Sherwood – Abe Lincoln in Illinois Dodie Smith – Dear Octopus Rodolfo Usigli – El gesticulador Theodore Ward – Big White Fog Thornton Wilder – Our Town Emlyn Williams – The Corn is Green Tennessee Williams – Not About Nightingales Poetry Alfred Kreymborg – Mary Pettibone Poole – A Glass Eye at a Keyhole Non-fiction Crane Brinton – The Anatomy of Revolution Hall Caine – Life of Christ Cyril Connolly – Enemies of Promise Geoffrey Faber – The Romance of a Bookshop 1904–1938 Robert Newton Flew – Jesus and His Church. A study of the idea of the Ecclesia in the New Testament Edgar Innes Fripp – Shakespeare, Man and Artist Elie Halévy – The Era of Tyrannies Agnes Hunt – This Is My Life C. L. R. James – Claude Scudamore Jarvis – Desert and Delta. An account of modern Egypt Jomo Kenyatta – Facing Mount Kenya Anne Morrow Lindbergh – Listen! The Wind Robert McAlmon – Being Geniuses Together, 1920–1930 Thomas Mann – The Coming Victory of Democracy George Orwell – Homage to Catalonia Derek A. Traversi – An Approach to Shakespeare Virginia Woolf – Three Guineas Births January 2 – Hans Herbjørnsrud , Norwegian short story writer January 5 – Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o , Kenyan novelist January 6 – Mario Rodríguez Cobos , Argentine author and spiritualist January 20 – Liz Calder , English publisher and editor February 7 – Andrea Newman , English novelist and screenwriter February 9 – Jovette Marchessault , French Canadian writer and artist February 12 *Judy Blume, American children's author *Tor Obrestad, Norwegian novelist, poet and documentary writer February 22 – Ishmael Reed , American poet, essayist and novelist March 1 – Michael Kurland , American author of sci-fi and detective fiction March 14 – Eleanor Bron , English humorous writer and actress March 24 – Ian Hamilton , English critic, biographer and poet March 27 – Hansjörg Schneider , Swiss novelist April 20 – Chiung Yao , Taiwanese romance novelist April 29 – Larry Niven , American sci-fi author May 13 – Norma Klein , American author May 15 – Nancy Garden , American author May 25 *Raymond Carver, American short-story writer and poet *Margaret Forster, English novelist and biographer May 26 – Lyudmila Petrushevskaya , Russian novelist and playwright June 5 – M. K. Wren, American novelist June 16 – Joyce Carol Oates , American novelist June 24 – Lawrence Block , American crime fiction writer June 26 – Maria Velho da Costa , Portuguese writer July 15 – Josephine Cox , English novelist July 19 *Nicholas Bethell, English historian and politician *Dom Moraes, Indian poet and columnist *Tom Raworth, English poet July 28 – Robert Hughes , Australian critic and historian August 15 – Janusz Zajdel , Polish writer August 21 – Mudrooroo , Australian novelist September 3 – Caryl Churchill , English dramatist September 12 – Richard Booth , Welsh bookseller September 15 – Charles L. Mee, American dramatist September 18 – Poornachandra Tejaswi , Kannada writer September 19 – Keorapetse Kgositsile , South African Poet Laureate October 12 – Anne Perry , English historical novelist October 13 – Hugo Young , English journalist October 17 – Les Murray , Australian poet October 19 – Allan Massie , Singapore-born Scottish writer November 3 – Terrence McNally , American playwright November 4 – Daniel Snowman , English non-fiction writer and historian December 9 – Willi Glasauer , German artist and illustrator December 14 – Leonardo Boff , Brazilian philosopher and theologian December 21 – Frank Moorhouse , Australian journalist, author and screenwriter December 31 – Basudeb Dasgupta , Bengali novelist Uncertain date Gabriel Ruhumbika, Tanzanian novelistDeaths January 4 – Paola Drigo , Italian writer January 16 – Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay , Bengali novelist January 19 – Branislav Nušić , Serbian novelist and dramatist January 29 – Armando Palacio Valdés , Spanish novelist and critic February 13 – Momčilo Nastasijević , Serbian poet, novelist and dramatist March 1 – Gabriele D'Annunzio , Italian poet and novelist March 31 – Willem Kloos , Dutch poet and critic April 19 – Sir Henry Newbolt , English poet April 21 – Lady Ottoline Morrell , English literary hostess May 26 – James Forbes , Canadian American dramatist and screenwriter June 9 – Ovid Densusianu , Romanian poet, philologist, and literary historian June 26 *James Weldon Johnson, American politician, poet and activist *E. V. Lucas, English essayist and biographer, 70 July 21 – Owen Wister , American Western fiction writer and historian August 7 – Konstantin Stanislavski , Russian theatre director August 26 – Millosh Gjergj Nikolla , Albanian poet and writer September 15 – Thomas Wolfe , American novelist October 3 – Olivia Shakespear , British novelist, playwright and patron of the arts October 27 – Lascelles Abercrombie , English poet and literary critic December 23 – Robert Herrick , American realist novelist December 25 – Karel Čapek , Czech science fiction author and dramatist December 27 – Osip Mandelstam , Russian poet and essayistAwards Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Noel Streatfeild , The Circus Is Coming Hawthornden Prize – David Jones , In Parenthesis James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: C. S. Forester, A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Sir Edmund Chambers , Samuel Taylor Coleridge Newbery Medal for children's literature: Kate Seredy , The White Stag Newdigate prize: Michael Thwaites Nobel Prize in literature: Pearl S. Buck Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Thornton Wilder , Our Town Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Marya Zaturenska , Cold Morning Sky Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: John Phillips Marquand , The Late George Apley
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