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1940 in literature
See also:
1939 in literature
,
other events of 1940
,
1941 in literature
,
list of years in literature
.
Table of contents
1 Events
2 New Books
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Awards
Events
New Books
Counter-Clockwise[?]
-
John M. Lee[?]
Daniel Boone
-
James Daugherty[?]
Darkness at Noon[?]
-
Arthur Koestler
The Don Flows Home to the Sea[?]
-
Mikhail Sholokov[?]
The Earth is the Lord's[?]
-
Taylor Caldwell
Farewell, My Lovely[?]
-
Raymond Chandler
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
-
Carson McCullers[?]
Horton Hatches the Egg[?]
-
Dr. Seuss
King's Row[?]
-
Henry Bellamann[?]
Last Train Out[?]
-
E. Phillipe Oppenheim[?]
The Man Who Loved Children[?]
-
Christina Stead
A Mathematician's Apology[?]
-
G. H. Hardy
Native Son
-
Richard Wright
The Ox-bow Incident[?]
-
Walter Clark[?]
Pal Joey[?]
-
John O'Hara
Pat the Bunny[?]
-
Dorothy Kunhardt[?]
Sapphira And The Slave[?]
-
Willa Cather
Trouble in July[?]
-
Erskine Caldwell[?]
When the Whippoorwill[?]
-
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings[?]
Births
February 4
-
George Romero[?]
,
horror movie
writer, producer, director
February 29
-
Edward Frederick Benson
,
American
writer
March 16
-
Bernardo Bertolucci
, Italian
writer
and
film director
Deaths
March 10
-
Mikhaïl Boulgakov[?]
, Russian writer
March 16
-
Selma Lagerlöf
, writer
December 21
-
F Scott Fitzgerald
Awards
Newberry 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
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