Sunday, February 12, 2006

1932-in-literature

See also: 1931 in literature, 1932, 1933 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is published.

New books

1919 (novel) - John Dos Passos
Black Mischief - Evelyn Waugh
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
A Broken Journey - Morley Callaghan
Burning Bush (novel) - Sigrid Undset
Christmas Pudding - Nancy Mitford
The Conjure Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem - Rudolph Fisher
The Fortress - Hugh Walpole
Guys and Dolls - Damon Runyon
Infants Of The Spring - Wallace Thurman
Josephus (novel) - Lion Feuchtwanger
Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand C�line
Le Pur et LImpur - Colette
Light in August - William Faulkner
Mutiny on the Bounty (fiction) Novel - Charles Norman Hall
The Richest Woman in Town - Henry Bellamann
Selected Essays, 1917-1932 - T. S. Eliot
The Sheltered Life - Ellen Glasgow
The Son Avenger - Sigrid Undset
Sons - Pearl S. Buck
Tobacco Road - Erskine Caldwell
Waterless Mountain - Laura Adams Armer

Births

January 18 - Robert Anton Wilson, author
February 7 - Gay Talese, author
October 27 - Sylvia Plath, poet

Deaths

Awards

Newbery Medal for childrens literature: Laura Adams Armer, Waterless Mountain
Nobel Prize for literature: John Galsworthy
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Ira Gershwin, Of Thee I Sing
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: George Dillon: The Flowering Stone
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Pearl S. Buck: The Good Earth

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