1932 in literature

Events

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is published. In 2001, the book would be one of two books by Huxley to be on the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

New Books

• 1919[?] - John Dos Passos
• Black Mischief[?] - Evelyn Waugh
• Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
• A Broken Journey[?] - Morley Callaghan
• Burning Bush[?] - Sigrid Undset
• Christmas Pudding[?] - Nancy Mitford
• The Conjure Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem[?] - Rudolph Fisher[?]
• The Fortress[?] - Hugh Walpole[?]
• Guys and Dolls[?] - Damon Runyon
• Infants Of The Spring[?] - Wallace Thurman[?]
• Josephus - Lion Feuchtwanger[?]
• Journey to the End of the Night[?] - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
• Le Pur et L'Impur[?] - Colette
• Light in August - William Faulkner
• Mutiny on the Bounty - Charles Norman Hall[?]
• The Richest Woman in Town[?] - Henry Bellamann[?]
• Selected Essays, 1917-1932[?] - T. S. Eliot
• The Sheltered Life[?] - Ellen Glasgow[?]
• The Son Avenger[?] - Sigrid Undset
• Sons[?] - Pearl S. Buck
• Tobacco Road[?] - Erskine Caldwell[?]
• Waterless Mountain[?] - Laura Adams Armer[?]

Births

• January 18 - Robert Anton Wilson, author
• February 7 - Gay Talese[?], author

Deaths

Awards

• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Laura Adams Armer[?], Waterless Mountain
• Nobel Prize for literature: John Galsworthy
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind[?], Ira Gershwin, Of Thee I Sing
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: George Dillon[?]: The Flowering Stone
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Pearl S. Buck: The Good Earth