1941 in literature

Events

New Books

• Blood On The Forge[?] - William Attaway[?]
• Call It Courage[?] - Armstrong Sperry[?]
• Curious George[?] - H.A. Rey and Margret Rey
• A Curtain of Green[?] - Eudora Welty
• Darkness at Noon[?] - Arthur Koestler
• Death Comes as the End[?] - Agatha Christie
• Herself Surprised[?] - Joyce Cary[?]
• The Keys of the Kingdom - A.J. Cronin
• Make Way for Ducklings[?] - Robert McCloskey
• Mildred Pierce - James M. Cain
• The Real Life of Sebastian Knight[?] - Vladimir Nabokov
• The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
• The Shy Plutocrat[?] - E. Phillipe Oppenheim[?]
• Under the Cottonwood[?] - Katheryn Campbell Graham[?]
• Up at the Villa[?] - W. Somerset Maugham
• What Makes Sammy Run? - Budd Schulberg[?]
• The Wind From Nowhere[?] - Oscar Micheaux

Births

• January 4 - Henri Bergson, writer
• October 4 - Anne Rice, horror/fantasy writer

Deaths

• January 13 - James Joyce, writer
• March 28 - Virginia Woolf, author
• August 7 - Rabindranath Tagore, author

Awards

• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Armstrong Sperry[?], Call It Courage
• Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Robert E. Sherwood[?], There Shall Be No Night
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Leonard Bacon: Sunderland Capture
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: no award given