1952 IN LITERATURE

The year '1952 in literature' involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Events

★ J. L. Carr takes over as headmaster of Highfields Primary School, Kettering, which will eventually furnish the subject matter for his novel, ''The Harpole Report''.

★ November 25 - Agatha Christie's play ''The Mousetrap'' opens in London.

★ The works of André Gide are placed on the Catholic Church's Index of Forbidden Books.

★ Launch of the influential periodical, ''Past and Present''.

★ E. E. Cummings is appointed to a Charles Eliot Norton Professorship at Harvard.

★ Discovery of a lost scientific work by Geoffrey Chaucer entitled ''Equatorie of the Planetis''.

New books

★ Isaac Asimov

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★ ''The Currents of Space''

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★ ''Foundation and Empire''

★ Pearl S. Buck - ''The Hidden Flower''

★ Italo Calvino - ''La Formica Argentina''

★ Brian Cleeve - ''The Far Hills''

★ Thomas B. Costain - ''The Silver Chalice''

★ A. J. Cronin - ''Adventures in Two Worlds''

★ August Derleth - ''Three Problems for Solar Pons''

★ August Derleth editor - ''

★ David F. Dodge - ''To Catch a Thief''

★ Ralph Ellison - ''Invisible Man''

★ Edna Ferber - ''Giant''

★ Paul Gallico - ''The Small Miracle''

★ Han Suyin - ''A Many-splendoured Thing''

★ Robert A. Heinlein - ''The Rolling Stones''

★ Ernest Hemingway - ''The Old Man and the Sea''

★ Frances Parkinson Keyes - ''Steamboat Gothic''

★ David H. Keller - ''Tales from Underwood''

★ Arthur Koestler - ''Arrow in the Blue''

★ Doris Lessing - ''Martha Quest''

★ C. S. Lewis - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

★ Bernard Malamud - ''The Natural''

★ Harry Mulisch - ''Archibald Strohalm''

★ C. L. Moore - ''Judgment Night''

★ R. K. Narayan - ''The Financial Expert''

★ Vin Packer - ''Spring Fire''

★ Anthony Powell - ''A Buyer's Market''

★ Barbara Pym - ''Excellent Women''

★ Charles Shaw - ''Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison''

★ Howard Spring - ''The Houses in Between''

★ John Steinbeck - ''East of Eden''

★ Edith Templeton - ''Island of Desire''

★ Agnes Sligh Turnbull - ''The Gown of Glory''

★ Amos Tutuola - ''The Palm-Wine Drinkard''

★ Hillary Waugh - ''Last Seen Wearing ...''

★ E. B. White - ''Charlotte's Web''

★ Angus Wilson - ''Hemlock and After''

★ Frank Yerby - ''The Saracen Blade''

New drama

★ Samuel Beckett - ''Waiting for Godot''

★ Robertson Davies - ''A Masque of Aesop''

★ Charles Langbridge Morgan - ''The River Line''

★ Terence Rattigan - ''The Deep Blue Sea''

★ Jean-Paul Sartre - ''Les jeux sont faits (The Game is Up)''

Non-fiction

★ Roland Bainton – ''The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century''

★ Dorothy Day – ''The Long Loneliness'' (autobiography)

★ L. Sprague de Camp and Willy Ley – ''Lands Beyond''

★ Lawrence Gowing – ''Vermeer''

★ Aldous Huxley – ''The Devils of Loudun''; ''Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow''

★ Norman Vincent Peale – ''The Power of Positive Thinking''

★ Gwen Raverat – ''Period Piece''

★ Pierre Schaeffer – ''À la recherche d'une musique concrète''

★ Immanuel Velikovsky – ''Ages in Chaos''

★ J. M. Wallace-Hadrill – ''The Barbarian West, 400–1000''

★ Raymond Williams – ''Drama from Ibsen to Eliot''

Births

★ February 19 - Amy Tan, novelist

★ February 29 - Tim Powers, American fantasy author

★ March 11 - Douglas Adams, science fiction author

★ Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, author of fantasy novels under the pennames Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm

Deaths

★ February 7 - Norman Douglas, novelist

★ February 13 - Josephine Tey, crime novelist

★ February 19 - Knut Hamsun, author

★ March 1 - Mariano Azuela, novelist, dramatist and critic

★ May 26 - Eugene Jolas, writer, literary translator and critic

★ April 1 - Ferenc Molnár, dramatist and novelist

★ June 1 - John Dewey, philosopher and psychologist

★ July 1 - A. S. W. Rosenbach, book collector

★ August 9 - Jeffery Farnol, historical romance novelist

★ August 15 - Dora Diamant, lover of Franz Kafka

★ September 29 – George Santayana, writer

★ October 4 - Keith Murdoch, journalist, father of Rupert Murdoch

★ November 4 - Gilbert Frankau, novelist

★ November 13 - Margaret Wise Brown, children's author

★ November 16 - Charles Maurras, poet

★ November 18 - Paul Éluard, Surrealist poet

★ November 23 – Aaro Hellaakoski, Finnish poet

★ December 6 - Cicely Hamilton, dramatist

★ ''date unknown'' - H. J. Massingham, "ruralist" writer

★ ''date unknown'' - Roger Vitrac, poet and dramatist

Awards

★ Frost Medal: Carl Sandburg

★ National Book Award: James Jones, ''From Here to Eternity''.

★ Newbery Medal for children's literature: Eleanor Estes, ''Ginger Pye''

★ Newdigate prize: Donald Hall

★ Nobel Prize for Literature: François Mauriac

★ Premio Nadal: María Medio Estrada, ''Nosotros, los Rivero''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Joseph Kramm, ''The Shrike''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Herman Wouk - ''The Caine Mutiny''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Marianne Moore, ''Collected Poems''

★ King's Gold Medal for Poetry: Andrew Young