1942 in literature

Events

New Books

• After The Storm[?] - Annie Greene Nelson[?]
• Black Alibi[?] - Cornell Woolrich
• Black Lamb and Grey Falcon[?] - Rebecca West
• Cross Creek[?] - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings[?]
• David[?] - Earl Birney[?]
• Floods of Spring[?] - Henry Bellamann[?]
• Frenchman's Creek[?] - Daphne du Maurier
• The Matchlock Gun[?] - Walter D. Edmonds[?]
• Picketing Hell[?] - Adam Clayton Powell, Sr.[?]
• The Poky Little Puppy[?] - Janette Sebring Lowrey[?]
• The Robe - Lloyd C. Douglas[?]
• The Song of Bernadette - Franz Werfel
• The Stranger (L'Étranger) - Albert Camus
• The Strong City[?] - Taylor Caldwell
• To Be a Pilgrim[?] - Joyce Cary[?]
• West with the Night[?] - Beryl Markham

Births

• January 31 - Derek Jarman, director, writer (+ 1994)
• October 23 - Michael Crichton, author
• December 6 - Peter Handke, Austrian novelist

Deaths

Awards

• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Walter O. Edmonds[?], The Matchlock Gun
• Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William Rose Benet, The Dust Which Is God
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Ellen Glasgow[?], In This Our Life