1950 in literature

Events

New Books

• Across the River and into the Trees[?] - Ernest Hemingway
• The Adventurer[?] - Mika Waltari
• Beetlecreek[?] - William Demby[?]
• Cabbagetown[?] - Hugh Garner[?]
• The Cardinal[?] - Henry Morton Robinson[?]
• The Child Who Never Grew[?] - Pearl S. Buck
• The Disenchanted[?] - Budd Schulberg[?]
• The Door in the Wall[?] - Marguerite de Angeli[?]
• Floodtide[?] - Frank Yerby[?]
• Florence Nightingale - Cecil Woodham-Smith[?]
• The Grass Is Singing[?] - Doris Lessing
• I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
• Joy Street[?] - Frances Parkinson Keyes[?]
• Jubilee Trail[?] - Gwen Bristow[?]
• Kon-Tiki - Thor Heyerdahl
• The Liberal Imagination[?] - Lionel Trilling[?]
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
• The Little World of Don Camillo[?] - Giovanni Guareschi
• Parade's End[?] - Ford Madox Ford
• The Parasites[?] - Daphne du Maurier
• Star Money[?] - Kathleen Winsor
• Summer In The Country[?] - Edith Templeton[?]
• The Wall[?] - John Hersey

Births

Deaths

• January 21 - George Orwell, writer
• March 19 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, author
• George Bernard Shaw

Awards

• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Marguerite de Angeli[?], The Door in the Wall
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan[?], South Pacific
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: A. B. Guthrie, Jr.[?], The Way West
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Gwendolyn Brooks[?], Annie Allen