1935 IN LITERATURE

The year '1935 in literature' involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Events

★ Penguin Books publishes the first "paperback" book.

★ W. H. Auden enters a marriage of convenience with Erika Mann.

★ ''Studs Lonigan - A Trilogy'' is published by James T. Farrell. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

New books

★ Maxwell Anderson - ''Winterset''

★ Enid Bagnold - ''National Velvet''

★ Pearl S. Buck - ''A House Divided''

★ Edgar Rice Burroughs - ''Tarzan and the Leopard Men''

★ Erskine Caldwell - ''Journeyman''

★ Morley Callaghan - ''They Shall Inherit the Earth''

★ John Dickson Carr - ''The Hollow Man'' (aka ''The Three Coffins'')

★ Solomon Cleaver - ''Jean Val Jean''

★ Robert P. Tristram Coffin - ''Red Sky in the Morning''

★ A. J. Cronin - ''The Stars Look Down''

★ Franklin W. Dixon - ''The Hidden Harbor Mystery''

★ E.R. Eddison - ''Mistress of Mistresses''

★ James T. Farrell - ''Studs Lonigan - A Trilogy''

★ Rachel Field - ''Time Out of Mind''

★ Charles G. Finney - ''The Circus of Dr. Lao''

★ George Wylie Henderson - ''Ollie Miss''

★ Georgette Heyer–''Death in the Stocks''

★ Anna Kavan (writing as Helen Ferguson) - ''A Stranger Still''

★ John Masefield - ''The Box of Delights''

★ Alberto Moravia - ''Le ambizioni sbagliate''

★ R. K. Narayan - ''Swami and Friends''

★ George Orwell

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★ ''Burmese Days''

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★ ''A Clergyman's Daughter''

★ Charles Ferdinand Ramuz - ''When the Mountain Fell''

★ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - ''Golden Apples''

★ George Santayana - ''The Last Puritan''

★ Dorothy L. Sayers - ''Gaudy Night''

★ Monica Shannon - ''Dobry''

★ John Steinbeck - ''Tortilla Flat''

★ B. Traven - ''Treasure of the Sierra Madre''

★ Stanley G. Weinbaum - ''The Lotus Eaters''

★ Laura Ingalls Wilder - ''Little House on the Prairie''

New drama

★ T. S. Eliot - ''Murder in the Cathedral''

★ Jean Giraudoux - ''La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu (The Trojan war will not take place)''

★ Clifford Odets - ''Waiting for Lefty''

★ Lawrence Riley - ''Personal Appearance''

★ Emlyn Williams - ''Night Must Fall''

Non-fiction

★ George Dangerfield - ''The Strange Death of Liberal England''

★ John Maynard Keynes - ''The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money''

★ Gerald M. Loeb–''The Battle for Investment Survival''

Births

★ January 30 - Richard Brautigan, writer and poet

★ February 5 - Sandra Paretti, author (+ 1994)

★ March 1 - Judith Rossner, writer

★ March 23 - Barry Cryer, comedy writer

★ April 14 - Erich von Däniken, ''Chariots of the Gods'' author

★ April 15 - Alan Plater, screenwriter

★ May 2 - Lynda Lee-Potter, columnist (+ 2004)

★ August 15 - Régine Deforges, dramatist, publisher, and author of France's best-selling novel ever

★ August 22 - E. Annie Proulx, novelist

★ September 17 - Ken Kesey, novelist

★ October 7 - Thomas Keneally, Australian novelist

★ December 13 - Adélia Prado, Brazilian writer and poet

Deaths

★ February 7 - Lewis Grassic Gibbon, novelist

★ April 6 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet

★ April 11 - Anna Katharine Green, crime writer

★ April 18 - Panait Istrati, Romanian novelist and short story writer

★ May 19 - T. E. Lawrence, "Lawrence of Arabia"

★ August 11 - Sir William Watson, traditionalist poet

★ August 17 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, author

★ August 30 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist

★ September 29 - Winifred Holtby, English novelist

★ October 11 - Steele Rudd, short story writer

★ November 30 - Fernando Pessoa, poet

★ December 21 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist

Awards

★ James Tait Black Memorial Prize: L. H. Myers, ''The Root and the Flower''

★ Newbery Medal for children's literature: Monica Shannon, ''Dobry''

★ Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded

★ Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Zoe Akins, ''The Old Maid''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Audrey Wurdemann: ''Bright Ambush''

★ Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Josephine Winslow Johnson - ''Now in November''