1940 IN LITERATURE

The year '1940 in literature' involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Events

★ Aldous Huxley is a screenwriter for the movie adaptation of ''Pride and Prejudice''.

★ Jean-Paul Sartre is taken prisoner by the Germans.

★ Robertson Davies joins the Old Vic repertory company.

New books

★ Giorgio Bassani - ''Una città di pianura

★ Henry Bellamann - ''King's Row''

★ Karin Boye - ''Kallocain''

★ Edgar Rice Burroughs - ''Synthetic Men of Mars''

★ Dino Buzzati - ''The Tartar Steppe (Il deserto dei Tartari)''

★ Erskine Caldwell - ''Trouble in July''

★ Taylor Caldwell - ''The Earth is the Lord's''

★ Willa Cather - ''Sapphira And The Slave''

★ Raymond Chandler - ''Farewell, My Lovely''

★ Walter Clark - ''The Ox-bow Incident''

★ James Daugherty - ''Daniel Boone''

★ Georges Duhamel - ''Les Maîtres''

★ Graham Greene - ''The Power and the Glory''

★ Georgette Heyer - ''The Corinthian''

★ Arthur Koestler - ''Darkness at Noon''

★ Dorothy Kunhardt- ''Pat the Bunny''

★ John M. Lee - ''Counter-Clockwise''

★ Carson McCullers - ''The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter''

★ John O'Hara - ''Pal Joey''

★ Raymond Postgate - ''Verdict of Twelve''

★ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - ''When the Whippoorwill''

★ Mikhail Sholokov - ''The Don Flows Home to the Sea''

★ Dr. Seuss - ''Horton Hatches the Egg''

★ C. P. Snow - ''George Passant'' (first of the ''Strangers and Brothers'' series)

★ Christina Stead - ''The Man Who Loved Children''

★ Richard Wright -''Native Son''

New drama

★ Agatha Christie - ''Peril at End House''

★ Jean Cocteau - ''Le Bel Indifférent''

★ Lawrence Riley - ''Return Engagement''

★ George Shiels - ''The Rugged Path''

Non-fiction

★ "Cato" (Michael Foot and others) - ''Guilty Men''

★ G. H. Hardy - ''A Mathematician's Apology''

★ C. S. Lewis - ''The Problem of Pain''

★ A. A. Milne - ''War with Honour''

★ Edmund Wilson - ''To the Finland Station''

Births

★ January 14 - Sir Trevor Nunn, theatre director

★ February 4 - George Romero, horror movie writer, producer, director

★ February 29 - Edward Frederic Benson, American writer

★ March 16 - Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian writer and film director

★ March 28 - Russell Banks, novelist

★ April 15 - Jeffrey Archer, novelist

★ May 7 - Angela Carter, English magical realist author

★ May 8 - Peter Benchley, novelist

★ May 13 - Bruce Chatwin, travel writer

★ May 28 - Maeve Binchy, novelist

★ July 17 - Tim Brooke-Taylor, comedy writer and actor

★ October 20 - Robert Pinsky, poet

★ December 5 - Peter Pohl, novelist

Deaths

★ January 5 - Humbert Wolfe, poet and epigrammist

★ January 27 - Isaac Babel, journalist and dramatist

★ February 29 - E. F. Benson, novelist

★ March 7 - Edwin Markham, poet

★ March 10 - Mikhaïl Boulgakov, Russian writer

★ March 16

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★ Selma Lagerlöf, writer

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★ Thomas Heath, historian and translator

★ June 10 - Marcus Garvey, journalist and publisher

★ June 20 - Charley Chase, screenwriter

★ September - W. H. Davies, poet and ''Supertramp''

★ December 21 - F Scott Fitzgerald

★ December 22 - Nathanael West

★ ''date unknown'' - T. O'Conor Sloane, editor of ''Amazing Stories''

Awards

★ Newbery Medal for children's literature: James Daugherty, ''Daniel Boone''

★ Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded

★ Pulitzer Prize for Drama: William Saroyan, ''The Time of Your Life''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mark Van Doren: ''Collected Poems''

★ Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: John Steinbeck - ''The Grapes of Wrath''

★ King's Gold Medal for Poetry: Michael Thwaites