1936 in literature

1936 in literature

The year 1936 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

* "Life magazine" is first published.

New books

*Eric Ambler - "The Dark Frontier"
*Henry Bellamann - "The Gray Man Walks"
*Gottfried Benn - "The Trainee Man"
*Arna Wendell Bontemps - "Black Thunder"
*Elizabeth Bowen - "The House in Paris"
*Carol Ryrie Brink - "Caddie Woodlawn"
*Edgar Rice Burroughs - "Tarzan's Quest"
*James M. Cain - "Double Indemnity"
*Morley Callaghan - "Now that April's Here and Other Stories"
*Karel Čapek - "War with the Newts"
*John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson" - "The Punch and Judy Murders"
*Willa Cather - "Not Under Forty"
*Louis-Ferdinand Céline - "Death on the Installment Plan"
*Robert P. Tristram Coffin - "John Dawn"
*John Dos Passos - "The Big Money"
*William Pène du Bois - "Otto at Sea"
*Daphne du Maurier - "Jamaica Inn"
*Walter D. Edmonds - "Drums Along the Mohawk"
*William Faulkner - "Absalom, Absalom!"
*Aldous Huxley - "Eyeless in Gaza"
*Winifred Holtby - "South Riding"
*Arthur Joseph - "Dark Metropolis"
*Jonathan Latimer - "The Lady in the Morgue"
*Andrew Lytle - "The Long Night"
*Margaret Mitchell - "Gone with the Wind"
*John A. Moroso - "Nobody's Buddy"
*Ellery Queen - "Halfway House"
*Ayn Rand - "We the Living"
*Israel Joshua Singer - "The Brothers Ashkenazi"
*John Steinbeck - "In Dubious Battle"
*Rex Stout - "The Rubber Band"
*S. S. Van Dine - "The Kidnap Murder Case"
*Ethel Lina White - "The Wheel Spins" (later "The Lady Vanishes")

New drama

*Noel Coward
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**"Present Laughter"
*Federico García Lorca - "Doña Rosita la soltera"
*Clare Boothe Luce - "The Women"
*Terence Rattigan - "French Without Tears"

Poetry

"See 1936 in poetry"

Non-fiction

*C. S. Lewis - "The Allegory of Love"
*Edwin Muir - "Scott and Scotland"
*Olavi Paavolainen - "Kolmannen valtakunnan vieraana"

Births

* January 10 - Stephen Ambrose, controversial historian (d. 2002)
* January 22 - Joseph Wambaugh, author
* February 18 - Jean M. Auel, "Earth's Children" author
*May 23 - Ian Kennedy Martin, scriptwriter
* June 23 - Richard Bach, "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" author
*June 24 - J. H. Prynne, poet
* July 22 - Tom Robbins, novelist
* August 24 - A. S. Byatt, novelist
*September 20 - Andrew Davies, TV and film writer
* October 5 - Václav Havel, dramatist and first president of the Czech Republic
* November 17 - John Wells, satirical writer and actor (d. 1998)
* November 20 - Don DeLillo, United States novelist
* "date unknown" - Duff Hart-Davis, biographer and journalist

Deaths

* January 18 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer - Nobel prize for literature (1907)
* March 16 - Marguerite Durand, journalist
* April 30 - A. E. Housman, poet
* June 11 - Robert E. Howard, American fantasy writer (suicide)
* June 12 - M. R. James, writer of ghost stories
* June 14 - G. K. Chesterton, author
* June 14 - Maxim Gorky, dramatist
* August 19 - Federico García Lorca, dramatist and poet
* November 12 - Stefan Grabinski, "the Polish Poe"
* December 10 - Luigi Pirandello, dramatist and novelist
* December 28 - John Cornford, Communist poet
* Grazia Deledda, Sardinian (Italy) writer - Nobel prize for literature (1926)

Awards

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Winifred Holtby, "South Riding"
* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Edward Sackville West, "A Flame in Sunlight: The Life and Work of Thomas de Quincey"
* Newbery Medal for children's literature: Carol Ryrie Brink, "Caddie Woodlawn"
* Nobel Prize for literature: Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
* Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Robert E. Sherwood, "Idiot's Delight"
* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert P. Tristram Coffin: "Strange Holiness"
* Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Harold L. Davis - "Honey in the Horn"


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