1949 in literature

Events

• Death of a Salesman, a play by Arthur Miller

• The Sheltering Sky[?] by Paul Bowles is published. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

New Books

• The Aleph[?] - Jorge Luis Borges
• Alien Land[?] - Willard W. Savoy[?]
• The Angry Wife[?] - Pearl S. Buck
• Beneath The Sky[?] - Alfred Q. Jarrette[?]
• Beyond Earth's Gates[?] - C. L. Moore
• Cannibal[?] - John Hawkes[?]
• Crooked House - Agatha Christie
• The Egyptian - Mika Waltari
• The Golden Sequence[?] - Martha E. Von Almedingen[?]
• The Heat of the Day[?] - Elixabeth Bowen[?]
• King of the Wind[?] - Marguerite Henry[?]
• Let Love Come Last[?] - Taylor Caldwell
• Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
• Male and Female[?] - Margaret Mead
• The Man With the Golden Arm[?] - Nelson Algren
• Men of Maize[?] - Miguel Angel Asturias[?]
• The Miracles of the Red Altar Cloth[?] - Hermann L. Hunter[?]
• Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
• Pride's Castle[?] - Frank Yerby[?]
• A Rage To Live[?] - John O'Hara
• The Second Sex[?] - Simone de Beauvoir
• Shane[?] - Jack Schaefer[?]
• The Sheltering Sky[?] - Paul Bowles
• A Town Like Alice[?] - Nevil Shute
• Trouble with Harry[?] - Jack Story[?]

Births

Deaths

• June 10 - Sigrid Undset, Nobel Prize winning author
• April 24 - Willa Cather, author
• May 6 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet & playwright

Awards

• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Marguerite Henry[?], King of the Wind
• Nobel Prize for literature - William Faulkner
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: James Gould Cozzens[?], Guard of Honor
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Peter Viereck[?], Terror and Decorum