1936 in literature

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 Céline
• 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 Pène du Bois
• Quel homme es-tu[?] - André Billy[?]

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
• Grazia Deledda, Sardinian (Italy) writer - Nobel prize for literature (1926)

Awards

• Newberry 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