- 1936 in literature
The year 1936 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
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Life magazine " is first published.New books
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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
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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
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1936 in poetry "Non-fiction
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C. S. Lewis - "The Allegory of Love "
*Edwin Muir - "Scott and Scotland"
*Olavi Paavolainen - "Kolmannen valtakunnan vieraana "Births
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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 theCzech 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 journalistDeaths
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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 , Americanfantasy 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 ,Sardinia n (Italy )writer -Nobel prize for literature (1926 )Awards
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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 ofThomas de Quincey "
*Newbery Medal forchildren'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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