1937 in literature

Events

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

New Books

• 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

Births

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

Deaths

• 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

Awards

• 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