1937 in literature

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The year 1937 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

January 9 - The first issue of Look magazine goes on sale in the United States.
Thomas Quinn Curtiss meets Klaus Mann.

New books

Eric Ambler - Uncommon Danger
Georges Bernanos - Diary of a Country Priest
Morley Callaghan - More Joy in Heaven
John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson" - The Ten Teacups
Agatha Christie - Death on the Nile
Murray Constantine - Swastika Night
A. J. Cronin - The Citadel
Isak Dinesen - Out of Africa
Zona Gale - Light Woman
Witold Gombrowicz - Ferdydurke
Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God
Meyer Levin - The Old Bunch
Cameron McCabe - The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor
Elliot Paul - Life and Death of a Spanish Town
Ellery Queen - The Door Between
Ruth Sawyer - Roller Skates
Olaf Stapledon - Star Maker
John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
Rex Stout - The Red Box
J. R. R. Tolkien - The Hobbit
Waters Edward Turpin - These Low Grounds
Virginia Woolf - The Years

New drama

Non-fiction

Hilaire Belloc - The Crusades: the World's Debate
Alf K. Berle and L. Sprague de Camp - Inventions and Their Management
Napoleon Hill - Think and Grow Rich
Walter Lippmann - The Good Society
Eric Partridge - A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

Births

January 1 - John Fuller, poet
January 7 - Ian La Frenais, TV comedy writer
January 9 - Judith Krantz, bestselling novelist
February 21 - Jilly Cooper, novelist and journalist
April 29 - Jill Paton Walsh, novelist
May 8 - Thomas Pynchon, novelist
May 13 - Roger Zelazny, American writer of fantasy and science fiction
May 13 - Roch Carrier, novelist and short-story writer
June 16 - Erich Segal, Love Story author
July 3 - Tom Stoppard, dramatist
August 5 - Carla Lane, comedy writer
September 5 - Dick Clement, TV comedy writer
November 17 - Peter Cook, comedian, satirist and writer
December 3 - Binod Bihari Verma, Maithili literateur
date unknown - David F. Case, American writer
date unknown - Richard Ingrams, editor
date unknown - Jan Karon, novelist
date unknown - Roger McGough, poet

Deaths

February 19 - Horacio Quiroga, short story writer
March 15 - H. P. Lovecraft, horror writer
March 25 - John Drinkwater, poet and novelist
June 19 - J. M. Barrie, novelist and dramatist
August 11 - Edith Wharton, writer
September 13 - Ellis Parker Butler, novelist
October 22 - Nakahara Chuya, poet
October 31 - Ralph Connor, novelist
December 24 - Elizabeth Haldane
December 26 - Ivor Gurney, war poet
December 29 - Don Marquis, poet
date unknown

Frederic Taber Cooper, editor
Gerald Duckworth, publisher
Edward Garnett, critic
W. F. Harvey, short story writer
William F. Lloyd, newspaper editor
H. C. McNeile ("Sapper"), "Bulldog Drummond" novelist

Awards

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Neil M. Gunn, Highland River
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Lord Eustace Percy, John Knox
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Ruth Sawyer, Roller Skates
Nobel Prize for literature: Roger Martin du Gard
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman, You Can't Take It With You
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Frost: A Further Range
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind
King's Gold Medal for Poetry: W. H. Auden

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