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Everything about 1940 In Literature totally explainedThe year 1940 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
New books
Giorgio Bassani - Una città di pianura
Henry Bellamann - King's Row
Adolfo Bioy Casares - The Invention of Morel
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
John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson" - And So To Murder
John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson" - Murder in the Submarine Zone
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
Clayton Rawson -- The Headless Lady
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
Rex Stout - Over My Dead Body
Rex Stout - Where There's a Will
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
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
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Charles Morgan, The Voyage
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Hilda F. M. Prescott, Spanish Tudor: Mary I of England
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 Further Information
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