Encyclopedia > 1937 in literature

Article Content

1937 in literature

See also: 1936 in literature, other events of 1937, 1938 in literature, list of years in literature.

Table of contents

January 9 - The first issue of Look magazine[?] goes on sale in the United States.

The Citadel - A.J. Cronin
Death on the Nile[?] - Agatha Christie
Diary of a Country Priest[?] - Georges Bernanos[?]
The Good Society[?] - Walter Lippmann
Light Woman[?] - Zona Gale[?]
More Joy in Heaven - Morley Callaghan
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
The Old Bunch[?] - Meyer Levin[?]
Out of Africa - Isak Dinesen
Roller Skates[?] - Ruth Sawyer[?]
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
These Low Grounds[?] - Waters Edward Turpin[?]
Uncommon Danger[?] - Eric Ambler[?]
The Years[?] - Virginia Woolf

May 8 - Thomas Pynchon, novelist
November 17 - Peter Cook, comedian, satirist and writer

March 15 - H. P. Lovecraft, horror writer
June 19 - J. M. Barrie, novelist and dramatist
August 11 - Edith Wharton, writer
December 26 - Ivor Gurney, war poet

Newberry Medal for children's literature: Ruth Sawyer[?], Roller Skates
Nobel Prize for literature: Roger Martin du Gard[?]
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman, You Can't Take It With You
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Frost: A Further Range
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

List of rare diseases starting with A

... Adrenoleukodystrophy, autosomal, neonatal form[?] Adrenoleukodystrophy, X-linked[?] Adrenoleukodystrophy Adrenomyodystrophy[?] Adult onset Still's disease[?] ...

This page was created in 31.7 ms