1940 in literature
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The year 1940 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- Aldous Huxley is a screenwriter for the movie adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.
- Jean-Paul Sartre is taken prisoner by the Germans.
- Robertson Davies joins the Old Vic repertory company.
[edit] New book
- Giorgio Basssani - Una città di pianura
- Henry Bellamann - King's Row
- Adolfo Bioy Casares - The Invention of Morel
- Karin Boye - Kallocain
- Edgar Rice Burroughs - Synthetic Men of Mars
- Dino Buzzati - The Tartar Steppe (Il deserto dei Tartari)
- Erskine Caldwell - Trouble in July
- Taylor Caldwell - The Earth is the Lord's
- John Dickson Carr
- The Department of Queer Complaints
- The Man Who Could Not Shudder
- And So To Murder (as by Carter Dickson)
- Murder in the Submarine Zone (as by Carter Dickson)
- Willa Cather - Sapphira And The Slave
- Raymond Chandler - Farewell, My Lovely
- Agatha Christie
- Walter Clark - The Ox-bow Incident
- James Daugherty - Daniel Boone
- Georges Duhamel - Les Maîtres
- Graham Greene - The Power and the Glory
- Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Georgette Heyer - The Corinthian
- Arthur Koestler - Darkness at Noon
- Dorothy Kunhardt- Pat the Bunny
- John M. Lee - Counter-Clockwise
- Carson McCullers - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
- John O'Hara - Pal Joey
- Raymond Postgate - Verdict of Twelve
- Arthur Ransome - The Big Six
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - When the Whippoorwill
- Clayton Rawson -- The Headless Lady
- Michael Sadleir - Fanny by Gaslight
- Mikhail Sholokov - The Don Flows Home to the Sea
- Dr. Seuss - Horton Hatches the Egg
- C. P. Snow - George Passant (first of the Strangers and Brothers series)
- Christina Stead - The Man Who Loved Children
- Rex Stout
- Phoebe Atwood Taylor
- The Criminal C.O.D.
- The Deadly Sunshade
- The Left Leg (as by Alice Tilton)
- Richard Wright -Native Son
[edit] New drama
- Agatha Christie - Peril at End House
- Jean Cocteau - Le Bel Indifférent
- Lawrence Riley - Return Engagement
- George Shiels - The Rugged Path
[edit] Non-fiction
- "Cato" (Michael Foot and others) - Guilty Men
- G. H. Hardy - A Mathematician's Apology
- C. S. Lewis - The Problem of Pain
- Arthur Marder - The Anatomy of British Sea Power: a history of British naval policy in the pre-Dreadnought era, 1880-1905
- A. A. Milne - War with Honour
- Edmund Wilson - To the Finland Station
[edit] Births
- January 14 - Sir Trevor Nunn, theatre director
- February 4 - George A. Romero, horror film writer, producer, director
- March 16 - Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian writer and film director
- March 28 - Russell Banks, novelist
- April 15 - Jeffrey Archer, novelist
- May 7 - Angela Carter, English magical realist author (died 1992)
- May 8 - Peter Benchley, novelist (died 2006)
- May 13 - Bruce Chatwin, novelist and travel writer (died 1989)
- May 24 - Joseph Brodsky, poet (died 1996)
- May 28 - Maeve Binchy, novelist
- July 17 - Tim Brooke-Taylor, comedy writer and actor
- October 20 - Robert Pinsky, poet
- December 5 - Peter Pohl, novelist
[edit] Deaths
- January 5 - Humbert Wolfe, poet and epigrammist
- January 27 - Isaac Babel, journalist and dramatist
- February 11 - John Buchan, Scottish author
- February 29 - E. F. Benson, novelist
- March 7 - Edwin Markham, poet
- March 10 - Mikhaïl Boulgakov, Russian writer (born 1891)
- March 16
- Selma Lagerlöf, writer
- Thomas Heath, historian and translator
- June 10 - Marcus Garvey, journalist and publisher
- June 20 - Charley Chase, screenwriter
- September - W. H. Davies, poet and Supertramp
- December 21 - F Scott Fitzgerald (born 1896)
- December 22 - Nathanael West (born 1903)
- date unknown - T. O'Conor Sloane, editor of Amazing Stories
[edit] Awards
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Kitty Barne, Visitors from London
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Charles Morgan, The Voyage
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Hilda F. M. Prescott, Spanish Tudor: Mary I of England
- Newbery 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
- King's Gold Medal for Poetry: Michael Thwaites
