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The year 1939 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Poetry
5 Non-fiction
6 Births
7 Deaths
8 Awards

Events

December 25 - A Christmas Carol is read before a radio audience for the first time.
Frank Herbert lies about his age to get his first job as a local newspaper reporter.
Jean-Paul Sartre is drafted into the French Army.
Robert A. Heinlein's first published short story appears in Astounding Magazine.

New books

Eric Ambler - The Mask of Dimitrios
Sholem Asch - The Nazarene
William Attaway - Let Me Breathe Thunder
Arna Wendell Bontemps - Drums at Dusk
Pearl S. Buck - The Patriot
Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan the Magnificent
John Dickson Carr
- The Black Spectacles
- The Problem of the Wire Cage
- The Reader is Warned (as by Carter Dickson)
- Drop to His Death (in collaboration with John Rhode)
Aime Cesaire - Cahier d'un Retour au Pays Natal
Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep
Agatha Christie
- And Then There Were None
- Murder is Easy
- The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories
William Faulkner - If I Forget Thee Jerusalem (The Wild Palms/Old Man)
Vardis Fisher - Children of God
Zona Gale - Magna
Henry Green - Party Going
Ernest Hemingway - The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Zora Neale Hurston - Moses, Man Of The Mountain
Aldous Huxley - After Many a Summer
Christopher Isherwood - Goodbye to Berlin
James Joyce - Finnegans Wake
Arthur Koestler - The Gladiators
Richard Llewellyn - How Green Was My Valley
H. P. Lovecraft - The Outsider and Others
Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Ingleside
John O'Hara - Files on Parade
George Orwell - Coming Up for Air
Elliot Paul - The Mysterious Mickey Finn
Ellery Queen - The Dragon's Teeth
Katherine Anne Porter - Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Clayton Rawson - The Footprints on the Ceiling
Seymour Reit- The Friendly Ghost
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - Wind, Sand and Stars (Terre des hommes)
Dorothy L. Sayers - In the Teeth of the Evidence
John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
Rex Stout - Some Buried Caesar
Phoebe Atwood Taylor
- Spring Harrowing
- Cold Steal (as by Alice Tilton)
Dalton Trumbo - Johnny Got His Gun
S. S. Van Dine - The Winter Murder Case
Elio Vittorini - Conversations in Sicily (Conversazione in Sicilia)
Nathanael West - The Day of the Locust
Ernest Vincent Wright - Gadsby
Pierre Schaeffer - Chlothar Nicole (Clotaire Nicole)

New drama

Philip Barry - The Philadelphia Story
Bertolt Brecht - Mother Courage and Her Children (written)
T. S. Eliot - The Family Reunion
Lillian Hellman - The Little Foxes
George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart -The Man Who Came to Dinner
Joseph Kesselring - Arsenic and Old Lace
Clare Boothe Luce - Margin of Error

Poetry

Main article: 1939 in poetry

T. S. Eliot - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Javier del Granado - Rosas Pálidas (Pale Roses)

Non-fiction

Lord David Cecil - The Young Melbourne and the Story of his Marriage with Caroline Lamb
Savitri Devi - A Warning to the Hindus
Erwin Panofsky - Studies in Iconology
Ed Ricketts - Between Pacific Tides
Ronald Syme - The Roman Revolution

Births

Michael Moorcock, British science fiction author
January 29 - Germaine Greer, feminist author
April 12 - Alan Ayckbourn, dramatist
June 5 - Margaret Drabble, novelist
August 1 - Robert James Waller, American novelist
October 6 - Melvyn Bragg, novelist, critic and television presenter
October 9 - John Pilger, journalist
October 10 - Clive James, writer, humorist and television personality
November 17 - Auberon Waugh, journalist and son of Evelyn Waugh
November 18 - Margaret Atwood, novelist and poet
date unknown - Ferdinand Mount, journalist and novelist
date unknown - Iris Gower, romantic novelist

Deaths

Solomon Cleaver, storyteller and novelist
January 28 - William Butler Yeats, poet
February 18 - Okamoto Kanoko, tanka poet
February 22 - Antonio Machado, poet
March 7 - Ludwig Fulda
March 23 - Richard Halliburton, travel writer
April 11 - S. S. Van Dine, crime fiction writer
May 27 - Joseph Roth, novelist
June 26 - Ford Madox Ford, novelist
July 8 - Havelock Ellis, sexual psychologist and controversial writer
September - Ethel M. Dell, romantic novelist
September 6 - Arthur Rackham, book illustrator
October 23 - Zane Grey, popular author of westerns
December 2 - Llewelyn Powys, biographer and autobiographer

Awards

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Aldous Huxley After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: David C. Douglas, English Scholars
Newbery 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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