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1939 in literature
See also:
1938 in literature
,
other events of 1939
,
1940 in literature
,
list of years in literature
.
Table of contents
1 Events
2 New Books
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Awards
Events
December 25
-
A Christmas Carol
was read before a
radio
audience for the first time.
The Day of the Locust[?]
by
Nathanael West[?]
is published. In
2001
, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the
American Modern Library
.
Finnegans Wake
by
James Joyce
is published. In
2001
, the book would be one of three books by Joyce to be named as part of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the
American Modern Library
.
The Grapes of Wrath
by
John Steinbeck
is published. In
2001
, the book would be on the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the editorial board of the
American Modern Library
.
New Books
The Big Sleep
-
Raymond Chandler
Children of God
-
Vardis Fisher[?]
The Day of the Locust[?]
-
Nathanael West[?]
Drums at Dusk[?]
-
Arna Wendell Bontemps[?]
Files on Parade[?]
-
John O'Hara
Finnegans Wake
-
James Joyce
The Gladiators[?]
-
Arthur Koestler
The Grapes of Wrath
-
John Steinbeck
Let Me Breathe Thunder[?]
-
William Attaway[?]
Listen for the Voices[?]
-
Anne Colver[?]
Magna
-
Zona Gale[?]
Mask of Dimitrios[?]
-
Eric Ambler[?]
Melbourne[?]
-
David Cecil[?]
Moses, Man Of The Mountain[?]
-
Zora Neale Hurston
The Nazarene[?]
-
Sholem Asch[?]
The Outsider and Others[?]
-
H.P. Lovecraft
The Patriot[?]
-
Pearl S. Buck
Snow of Kilimanjaro[?]
-
Ernest Hemingway
Studies in Iconology[?]
-
Erwin Panofsky[?]
Thimble Summer[?]
-
Elizabeth Enright[?]
The Tree of Liberty[?]
-
Elizabeth Page[?]
Births
Michael Moorcock
, English science fiction author
Deaths
January 28
-
William Butler Yeats
, writer
Awards
Newberry Medal
for
children's literature
:
Elizabeth Enright[?]
,
Thimble Summer
Nobel Prize for literature
:
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
:
Robert E. Sherwood[?]
,
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
:
John Gould Fletcher[?]
:
Selected Poems
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel
:
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings[?]
-
The Yearling
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