1936 in literature
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See also: 1935 in literature, other events of 1936, 1937 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Life magazine is first published
New Books
- The Allegory of Love - C. S. Lewis
- The Big Money - John Dos Passos
- Black Thunder - Arna Wendell Bontemps
- The Brothers Ashkenazi - Israel Joshua Singer
- Caddie Woodlawn - Carol Ryrie Brink
- Dark Metropolis - Arthur Joseph
- Death on the Installment Plan - [[Louis-Ferdinand C�line]]
- Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
- The Gray Man Walks - Henry Bellamann
- The House in Paris - Elixabeth Bowen
- In Dubious Battle - John Steinbeck
- Jamaica Inn - Daphne du Maurier
- John Dawn - Robert P. Tristram Coffin
- The Long Night - Andrew Lytle
- Not Under Forty - Willa Cather
- Now that April's Here and Other Stories - Morley Callaghan
- Otto at Sea - [[William P�ne du Bois]]
- Quel homme es-tu - Andr� Billy
- We The Living - Ayn Rand
Births
- January 22 - Joseph Wambaugh, author
- November 20 - Don DeLillo, United States author
Deaths
- January 18 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer
- June 14 - Gilbert Keith Chesterton, author
- June 17 - Maxim Gorky, Russian author
- Grazia Deledda, Sardinian (Italy) writer - Nobel prize for literature (1926)
Awards
- 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, Idiots Delight
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert P. Tristram Coffin: Strange Holiness
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Harold L. Davis - Honey in the Horn
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "1936_in_literature" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_in_literature, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
