1930 in literature

Events

• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett is published. In 2001, the book would be listed as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

New Books

• Aphrodite in Aulis[?] - George A. Moore
• As I Lay Dying[?] - William Faulkner
• Bridal Pond[?] - Zona Gale[?]
• Cakes and Ale[?] - W. Somerset Maugham
• A Flood[?] - George A. Moore
• The 42nd Parallel[?] - John Dos Passos
• Grand Hotel - Vicki Baum[?]
• The Great Meadow[?] - Elizabeth Madox Roberts[?]
• Hitty, Her First Hundred Years[?] - Rachel Field[?]
• It's Never Over[?] - Morley Callaghan
• The Little Engine That Could[?] - Watty Piper[?]
• The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
• Narcissus and Goldmund[?] - Hermann Hesse
• Not Without Laughter[?] - Langston Hughes
• The Promised Land[?] - Gilbert Lubin[?]
• Rogue Herries[?] - Hugh Walpole[?]
• The Secret of the Old Clock[?] - Carolyn Keene
• Vile Bodies[?] - Evelyn Waugh
• Woman of Andros[?] - Thornton Wilder

Births

• January 23 - Derek Walcott, author
• February 17 - Ruth Barbara Rendell[?], writer
• October 10 - Harold Pinter, playwright

Deaths

• March 2 - D.H. Lawrence, author
• July 7 - Arthur Conan Doyle, British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes

Awards

• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Rachel Field[?], Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Sinclair Lewis
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Marc Connelly, The Green Pastures
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Conrad Aiken: Selected Poems
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Oliver Lafarge[?] - Laughing Boy