1943 in literature

Events

New Books

• Adam of the Road[?] - Elizabeth Janet Gray[?]
• The Apostle[?] - Sholem Asch[?]
• Being and Nothingness - Jean-Paul Sartre
• Citizen Tom Paine[?] - Howard Fast
• Claudius the God[?] - Robert Graves
• Earth's Last Citadel[?] - C. L. Moore
• The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
• Gremlins[?] - Roald Dahl
• The Lady In The Lake[?] - Raymond Chandler
• The Last of Summer[?] - Kate O'Brien[?]
• The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• The Nature and Destiny of Man[?] - Reinhold Niebuhr
• Mr. Mirakel[?] - E. Phillipe Oppenheim[?]
• The Raven - Chancellor Williams[?]
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn[?] - Betty Smith[?]
• Victoria Grandolet[?] - Henry Bellamann[?]
• The White Face[?] - Carl Offord[?]
• Song of Bernadette[?] - Franz Werfel

Births

• January 4 - Doris Kearns Goodwin[?], writer
• January 11 - Jim Hightower, radio host, author
• February 15 - Elke Heidenreich[?], journalist and writer
• February 18 - Graeme Garden, writer, comedian, actor

Deaths

• March 10 - Lawrence Binyon, poet and scholar
• December 22 - Beatrix Potter, Children's author

Awards

• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Janet Elizabeth Gray[?], Adam of the Road
• Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Frost: A Witness Tree
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Upton Sinclair - Dragon's Teeth