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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1937.

Events

January 9 – The first issue of Look magazine goes on sale in the United States.
January 19 – BBC Television broadcasts The Underground Murder Mystery by J. Bissell Thomas from London, the first play to be written for television.^[1]
February 6 – John Steinbeck's novella of the Great Depression, Of Mice and Men, appears in the United States.
April – The Irish writers Elizabeth Bowen and Seán Ó Faoláin first meet, in London.
May 14 – BBC Television broadcasts a 30-minute excerpt of Twelfth Night, the first known television broadcast of a Shakespeare piece. The cast includes Peggy Ashcroft and Greer Garson.
May 21 – Penguin Books in the U.K. launches Pelican Books, a sixpenny paperback non-fiction imprint, with a two-volume edition of George Bernard Shaw's The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism.^[2]
June
- The British science fiction magazine Tales of Wonder first appears.
- John Cowper Powys visits Sycharth, birthplace of Owain Glyndŵr, which inspires his 1940 novel Owen Glendower.^[3]
June 30 – The New England Quarterly prints poems by a colonial American pastor, Edward Taylor (died 1729), discovered by Thomas H. Johnson.^[4]
Summer – American-born writer Thomas Quinn Curtiss meets German-born novelist Klaus Mann in Europe and they start a relationship.
July
- Buchenwald concentration camp in Nazi Germany is established around the Goethe Oak.
- Rex Ingamells and other poets initiate the Jindyworobak Movement in Australian literature, in the magazine Venture.^[5]
- The American academic librarian Randolph Greenfield Adams writes a controversial Library Quarterly essay, "Librarians as Enemies of Books", complaining of librarians downgrading books and scholarship in favor of other tasks.^[6]^[7]
July 4 – The Lost Colony a historical drama by Paul Green, is first performed at an outdoor theater in the place where it is set: Roanoke Island, North Carolina.
July 31 – Stephen Vincent Benét's post-apocalyptic short story By the Waters of Babylon, inspired by April's Bombing of Guernica, is published in the U.S. The Saturday Evening Post as "The Place of the Gods".
September 10 – The Soviet playwright Sergei Tretyakov commits suicide while under sentence of death at Butyrka prison in Moscow as part of the Great Purge.^[8]
September 21 – J. R. R. Tolkien's juvenile fantasy novel The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is published in England by George Allen & Unwin on the recommendation of young Rayner Unwin.
September 29 – The French playwright Antonin Artaud is expelled from Ireland.
October 6 – The fictional Mrs. Miniver appears in a column on domestic life by Jan Struther for The Times, London.^[9]
November 11 (Armistice Day)
- BBC Television broadcasts Journey's End by R. C. Sherriff, 1928, set on the Western Front (World War I) in 1918, as the first full-length television adaptation of a stage play. Reginald Tate plays the lead, having long performed it in the theater.^[10]^[11]
- Caesar, Orson Welles's modern-dress bare-stage adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, premieres as the first production of the Mercury Theatre in New York City.
December 21 – Dr. Seuss's first book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, is published by Vanguard Press.
unknown dates
- The National Library of Iran is inaugurated in Tehran.^[12]
- The future novelist Angus Wilson becomes a book cataloguer at the British Museum Library in London.

New books

Poetry

David Jones – In Parenthesis (part prose)
Isaac Rosenberg (killed in action 1918) – Collected Works

Non-fiction

Hilaire Belloc – The Crusades: the World's Debate
Alf K. Berle and L. Sprague de Camp – Inventions and Their Management
Robert Byron – The Road to Oxiana
Jean Giono – Les Vraies Richesses
Napoleon Hill – Think and Grow Rich
Carl Jung – Dream Symbols of the Individuation Process
Walter Lippmann – The Good Society
John Neal – American Writers: A Series of Papers Contributed to Blackwood's Magazine (1824–1825) (edited by Fred Lewis Pattee)^[16]
Manuel Chaves Nogales – A sangre y fuego: Héroes, bestias y mártires de España (Fire and sword: heroes, beasts and martyrs of Spain)
George Orwell – The Road to Wigan Pier
Eric Partridge – A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
N. Porsenna – Regenerarea neamului românesc (Regeneration of the Romanian People)
A. L. Zissu – Logos, Israel, Biserica (Logos, Israel, The Church)

Births

January 1 – John Fuller, English poet
January 7 – Ian La Frenais, English television comedy writer
January 8 – Leon Forrest, African-American novelist and essayist (died 1997)
January 9 – Judith Krantz, American novelist (died 2019)
January 13 – Jean D'Costa, Jamaican children's novelist
January 14 – J. Bernlef, born Hendrik Jan Marsman, Dutch poet, novelist and translator (died 2012)
January 22 – Joseph Wambaugh, American mystery novelist and non-fiction writer
January 23 – Juan Radrigán, Chilean playwright (died 2016)
February 11 – Maryse Condé, Guadeloupe historical fiction writer
February 20 – George Leonardos, Greek journalist and novelist
February 21 – Jilly Cooper, English novelist and journalist
February 27 – Peter Hamm, German poet, author, journalist, editor and literary critic (died 2019)
March 14 – Jan Karon (Janice Wilson), American novelist and children's writer
March 15 – Valentin Rasputin, Russian writer (died 2015)
March 20 - Lois Lowry, American children's and young-adult writer
April 10 – Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet (died 2010)
April 29 – Jill Paton Walsh (Gillian Bliss), English novelist (died 2020)
May 8 – Thomas Pynchon, American novelist
May 13
- Roch Carrier, Canadian novelist and short-story writer
- Roger Zelazny, American writer of fantasy and science fiction (died 1995)
June 1 – Colleen McCullough, Australian novelist (died 2015)
June 16 – Erich Segal, American novelist (died 2010)
July 3 – Tom Stoppard (Tomáš Straussler), Czech-born English dramatist^[17]
July 6 – Bessie Head, South African-born Botswanan fiction writer (died 1986)
August 3 – Peter van Gestel, Dutch writer (died 2019)
August 5 – Carla Lane (Romana Barrack), English comedy writer (died 2016)
August 19
- Richard Ingrams, English editor
- Alexander Vampilov, Russian dramatist (drowned 1972)
September 5 – Dick Clement, English television comedy writer
October 4 – Jackie Collins, English-born romance novelist (died 2015)
October 7 – Christopher Booker, English journalist and editor (died 2019)
November 9
- Roger McGough, English poet^[18]
- S. Abdul Rahman, Tamil poet (died 2017)
November 17 – Peter Cook, English comedian, satirist and writer (died 1995)
December 11 – Jim Harrison, American novelist and poet (died 2016)
December 22
- David F. Case, American novelist and short story writer
- Charlotte Lamb (Sheila Holland, Sheila Coates, etc.), English romantic novelist (died 2000)
unknown date – Parijat (Bishnu Kumari Waiba), Nepalese novelist and poet (died 1993)

Deaths

January 5 – Alberto de Oliveira, Brazilian poet (born 1857)^[19]
January 11 – Emma A. Cranmer, American author, reformer, suffragist (born 1858)
February 19
- Edward Garnett, English critic (born 1868)^[20]
- Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan short story writer (suicide, born 1878)^[21]
March 7 – Tomas O'Crohan, Irish Gaelic writer and fisherman (born 1856)^[22]
March 8 – Albert Verwey, Dutch poet (born 1865)^[23]
March 15 – H. P. Lovecraft, American horror writer (intestinal cancer, born 1890)^[24]
March 25 – John Drinkwater, English poet and dramatist (born 1882)^[25]
May 20 – Frederic Taber Cooper, American editor and writer (born 1864)^[26]
June 4 – W. F. Harvey, English horror-story writer (born 1885)
June 13 – William F. Lloyd, English-born Newfoundland journalist and prime minister (born 1864)
June 19 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish novelist and dramatist (born 1860)
June 22 – Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy poet (suicide, born 1901 or 1903)
July 18 – Julian Bell, English poet (killed in Spanish Civil War, born 1908)
July 29 — Ella Maria Ballou, American writer (born 1852)
August 11 – Edith Wharton (Edith Newbold Jones), American novelist and short-story writer (born 1862)
August 14 – H. C. McNeile (Sapper), English novelist and soldier (born 1888)
September 13 – Ellis Parker Butler, American humorist, novelist and essayist (born 1869)
October 13 – Dmitrii Milev, Soviet Moldovan shorty story writer and critic (shot, born 1887)
October 15 – Samuil Lehtțir, Soviet Moldovan poet, critic and literary theorist (shot, born 1901)
October 16 – Jean de Brunhoff, French children's author and illustrator (born 1899)
November 3 – Mykola Kulish, Ukrainian writer (shot with many other Ukrainian intellectuals at Sandarmokh, born 1892)^[27]
November 3 – Mykola Zerov, Ukrainian poet, translator, classical and literary scholar and critic (shot at Sandarmokh, born 1890)^[28]
November 3 – Valerian Pidmohylny, Ukrainian writer, (shot at Sandarmokh, born 1901)^[29]
November 3 – Hryhorii Epik, Ukrainian writer and journalist (shot at Sandarmokh, born 1901)^[30]
November 3 – Myroslav Irchan, Ukrainian storywriter and playwright (shot at Sandarmokh, born 1897)^[31]
October 17 – Florence Dugdale, English children's writer, widow of Thomas Hardy (cancer, born 1879)^[32]
October 22 – Chūya Nakahara (中原中也), Japanese poet (meningitis, born 1907)
October 31 – Ralph Connor, Canadian novelist (born 1860)
c. December – Filimon Săteanu, Soviet Moldovan poet (shot, born 1907)
December 9 – Frances Nimmo Greene, American novelist, short story writer, children's writer, playwright (born 1867)
December 24 – Elizabeth Haldane, Scottish author, philosopher and suffragist (born 1862)
December 26

Ivor Gurney, English war poet and composer (tuberculosis, born 1890)^[33]
Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller, American novelist (born 1850)

December 29 – Don Marquis, American poet (stroke, born 1878)^[34]
unknown date — Clara H. Hazelrigg, American author, educator and reformer (born 1859)

Awards

Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Eve Garnett, The Family From One End Street
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Neil M. Gunn, Highland River
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Lord Eustace Percy, John Knox
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Ruth Sawyer, Roller Skates
Nobel Prize in literature: Roger Martin du Gard
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman, You Can't Take It with You
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Frost, A Further Range
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
King's Gold Medal for Poetry: W. H. Auden

References

^ Fisher, David (2011-12-30). "1937". Chronomedia. Terra Media. Retrieved 2014-01-13.
^ "Pelican Books". Penguin First Editions. 2013. Retrieved 2015-07-16.
^ Keith, W. J. (July 2007), Owen Glendower: a Reader's Companion (PDF), p. 40
^ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (April 29, 1937). "Catalog of Copyright Entries: Periodicals" – via Google Books.
^ John Tregenza (1964). Australian Little Magazines, 1923-1954. Libraries Board of South Australia.
^ Kaser, David (1978). "Adams, Randolph Greenfield". In Wynar, Bohdan S. (ed.). Dictionary of American Library Biography. Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited. pp. 2–3.
^ "Randolph Greenfield Adams". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1977.
^ Leach, Robert (1995). "Introduction". In Tretyakov, Sergei Mikhailovich (ed.). I Want a Baby. Studies in drama and dance. University of Birmingham. ISBN 0704416204.
^ "Mrs. Miniver (1942)". Reel Classics. Archived from the original on 2 May 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-28.
^ "Televised Drama – Journey's End". The Times. London. 1937-11-12. p. 14.
^ Vahimagi, Tise (1994). British Television: An Illustrated Guide. Oxford University Press; British Film Institute. p. 8. ISBN 0-19-818336-4.
^ Sant Ram Bhatia (1978). Indian Librarian. Indian Librarian. p. 15.
^ "Hercule Poirot | fictional character | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
^ Atkinson, Brooks (March 31, 1937). "THE PLAY; ' Red Harvest,' From a Diary of the Red Cross at the Front During the War" – via NYTimes.com.
^ "THE PLAY; ' Red Harvest,' From a Diary of the Red Cross at the Front During the War". timesmachine.nytimes.com.
^ Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 147. ISBN 080-5-7723-08.
^ Bloom, Harold (2009). Tom Stoppard. Infobase Publishing. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-4381-1652-5.
^ The Book of Golden Discs. Barrie & Jenkins. 1978. p. 248. ISBN 978-0-214-20480-7.
^ Brazilian Literature: 1880-1920: Naturalism, realism-Parnassianism, symbolism. Georgetown University Press. 1974. p. 50.
^ T. H. White (May 1984). Letters to a Friend. Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-425-06816-8.
^ Pan American Union (1937). Bulletin of the Pan American Union. The Union. p. 588.
^ Seán Ó Criomhthain (1993). A Day in Our Life. Oxford University Press. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-19-283119-4.
^ Lansing Bartlett Bloom; Paul A. F. Walter (1979). New Mexico Historical Review. University of New Mexico. pp. 127–128.
^ S. T. Joshi (1996). H.P. Lovecraft: A Life. Necronomicon Press. p. 631. ISBN 978-0-940884-88-5.
^ Frank Northen Magill (1985). Critical Survey of Drama: Authors A-Z. Salem Press. p. 506. ISBN 978-0-89356-377-6.
^ "Frederic T. Cooper; Writer Educator." New York Times. 21 May 1937: 21.
^ "Kulish, Mykola". encyclopediaofukraine.com. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
^ "Zerov, Mykola". encyclopediaofukraine.com. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
^ "Pidmohylny, Valeriian". encyclopediaofukraine.com. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
^ "Epik, Hryhorii". encyclopediaofukraine.com. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
^ "Irchan, Myroslav". encyclopediaofukraine.com. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
^ Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy. p. xxiii. Retrieved 2015-02-23.
^ Ivor Gurney; Edmund Blunden; Leonard Clark (1973). Poems of Ivor Gurney, 1890-1937. Chatto and Windus. p. 21. ISBN 9780701119003.
^ "Don Marquis | American writer | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 24 March 2022.

External links

Media related to 1937 in literature at Wikimedia Commons

[1] Fisher, David (2011-12-30). "1937". Chronomedia. Terra Media. Retrieved 2014-01-13.

[2] "Pelican Books". Penguin First Editions. 2013. Retrieved 2015-07-16.

[3] Keith, W. J. (July 2007), Owen Glendower: a Reader's Companion (PDF), p. 40

[4] Office, Library of Congress Copyright (April 29, 1937). "Catalog of Copyright Entries: Periodicals" – via Google Books.

[5] John Tregenza (1964). Australian Little Magazines, 1923-1954. Libraries Board of South Australia.

[6] Kaser, David (1978). "Adams, Randolph Greenfield". In Wynar, Bohdan S. (ed.). Dictionary of American Library Biography. Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited. pp. 2–3.

[7] "Randolph Greenfield Adams". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1977.

[8] Leach, Robert (1995). "Introduction". In Tretyakov, Sergei Mikhailovich (ed.). I Want a Baby. Studies in drama and dance. University of Birmingham. ISBN 0704416204.

[9] "Mrs. Miniver (1942)". Reel Classics. Archived from the original on 2 May 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-28.

[10] "Televised Drama – Journey's End". The Times. London. 1937-11-12. p. 14.

[11] Vahimagi, Tise (1994). British Television: An Illustrated Guide. Oxford University Press; British Film Institute. p. 8. ISBN 0-19-818336-4.

[12] Sant Ram Bhatia (1978). Indian Librarian. Indian Librarian. p. 15.

[13] "Hercule Poirot | fictional character | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 19 May 2022.

[nyt-14] Atkinson, Brooks (March 31, 1937). "THE PLAY; ' Red Harvest,' From a Diary of the Red Cross at the Front During the War" – via NYTimes.com.

[15] "THE PLAY; ' Red Harvest,' From a Diary of the Red Cross at the Front During the War". timesmachine.nytimes.com.

[16] Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 147. ISBN 080-5-7723-08.

[17] Bloom, Harold (2009). Tom Stoppard. Infobase Publishing. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-4381-1652-5.

[18] The Book of Golden Discs. Barrie & Jenkins. 1978. p. 248. ISBN 978-0-214-20480-7.

[19] Brazilian Literature: 1880-1920: Naturalism, realism-Parnassianism, symbolism. Georgetown University Press. 1974. p. 50.

[20] T. H. White (May 1984). Letters to a Friend. Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-425-06816-8.

[21] Pan American Union (1937). Bulletin of the Pan American Union. The Union. p. 588.

[22] Seán Ó Criomhthain (1993). A Day in Our Life. Oxford University Press. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-19-283119-4.

[BloomWalter1979-23] Lansing Bartlett Bloom; Paul A. F. Walter (1979). New Mexico Historical Review. University of New Mexico. pp. 127–128.

[24] S. T. Joshi (1996). H.P. Lovecraft: A Life. Necronomicon Press. p. 631. ISBN 978-0-940884-88-5.

[25] Frank Northen Magill (1985). Critical Survey of Drama: Authors A-Z. Salem Press. p. 506. ISBN 978-0-89356-377-6.

[26] "Frederic T. Cooper; Writer Educator." New York Times. 21 May 1937: 21.

[27] "Kulish, Mykola". encyclopediaofukraine.com. Retrieved 1 April 2024.

[28] "Zerov, Mykola". encyclopediaofukraine.com. Retrieved 1 April 2024.

[29] "Pidmohylny, Valeriian". encyclopediaofukraine.com. Retrieved 1 April 2024.

[30] "Epik, Hryhorii". encyclopediaofukraine.com. Retrieved 1 April 2024.

[31] "Irchan, Myroslav". encyclopediaofukraine.com. Retrieved 1 April 2024.

[32] Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy. p. xxiii. Retrieved 2015-02-23.

[33] Ivor Gurney; Edmund Blunden; Leonard Clark (1973). Poems of Ivor Gurney, 1890-1937. Chatto and Windus. p. 21. ISBN 9780701119003.

[34] "Don Marquis | American writer | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 24 March 2022.

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 *June
 **The British [[science fiction magazine]] ''[[Tales of Wonder (magazine)|Tales of Wonder]]'' first appears.
-**[[John Cowper Powys]] visits [[Sycharth]], birthplace of [[Owain Glyndŵr]], which inspires his [[1940 in literature|1940]] novel ''[[Owen Glendower (novel)|Owen Glendower]].<ref>{{Citation |url=http://www.powys-lannion.net/Powys/Keith/OGcompanion.pdf |first=W. J. |last=Keith |title=Owen Glendower: a Reader's Companion |page=40 |date=July 2007}}</ref>
+**[[John Cowper Powys]] visits [[Sycharth]], birthplace of [[Owain Glyndŵr]], which inspires his [[1940 in literature|1940]] novel ''[[Owen Glendower (novel)|Owen Glendower]]''.<ref>{{Citation |url=http://www.powys-lannion.net/Powys/Keith/OGcompanion.pdf |first=W. J. |last=Keith |title=Owen Glendower: a Reader's Companion |page=40 |date=July 2007}}</ref>
 *[[June 30]] – ''[[The New England Quarterly]]'' prints poems by a [[colonial America]]n pastor, [[Edward Taylor]] (died [[1729 in literature|1729]]), discovered by Thomas H. Johnson.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eSxhAAAAIAAJ&dq=new+england+quarterly+10+%281937%29&pg=RA1-PA198|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries: Periodicals|first=Library of Congress Copyright|last=Office|date=April 29, 1937|via=Google Books}}</ref>
 *Summer – American-born writer [[Thomas Quinn Curtiss]] meets German-born novelist [[Klaus Mann]] in Europe and they start a relationship.
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 ===Fiction===
 *[[Felix Aderca]] – ''Orașele înecate'' (Sunken Cities)
+*Shakib al-Jabiri – ''al-Naham'' (Greed)
 *[[Eric Ambler]] – ''[[Uncommon Danger]]''
 *[[Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay]] – ''[[Chander Pahar]]'' (চাঁদের পাহড়, Mountain of the Moon)
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 *[[Anthony Berkeley Cox|Anthony Berkeley]] – ''[[Trial and Error (novel)|Trial and Error]]''
 *[[Georges Bernanos]] – ''[[Mouchette (novel)|Mouchette]]''
+*[[Ion Biberi]] – ''Oameni în ceață'' (People in the Fog)
+*[[Karen Blixen]] – ''[[Out of Africa]]'' (published in US as by Isak Dinesen; published in Denmark as ''Den afrikanske farm'')
 *[[Phyllis Bottome]] – ''[[The Mortal Storm (novel)|The Mortal Storm]]''
 *[[John Bude]] – ''[[The Cheltenham Square Murder]]''
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 **''[[Murder in the Mews]]''
 *[[Stuart Cloete]] – ''Turning Wheels''
+*[[J. J. Connington]] – ''[[A Minor Operation]]''
 *[[Murray Constantine]] – ''[[Swastika Night]]''
-* [[Freeman Wills Crofts]] – ''[[Found Floating]]''
+*[[Freeman Wills Crofts]] – ''[[Found Floating]]''
 *[[A. J. Cronin]] – ''[[The Citadel (novel)|The Citadel]]''
-*[[James Curtis (author)|James Curtis]] – ''[[There Ain't No Justice (novel)|There Ain't No Justice]]''
+*[[James Curtis (British writer)|James Curtis]] – ''[[There Ain't No Justice (novel)|There Ain't No Justice]]''
 *[[Ludovic Dauș]] – ''O jumătate de om'' (Half a Man)
-* [[Cecil Day-Lewis]] – ''[[There's Trouble Brewing]]''
+*[[Cecil Day-Lewis]] – ''[[There's Trouble Brewing]]''
-*[[Isak Dinesen]] – ''[[Out of Africa]]''
 *[[Pierre Drieu La Rochelle]] – ''[[Rêveuse bourgeoisie]]''
 *[[Lawrence Durrell]] (as Charles Norden) – ''[[Panic Spring]]''
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 *[[Max Frisch]] – ''[[An Answer from the Silence]] (Antwort aus der Stille)''
 *[[Zona Gale]] – ''Light Woman''
-* [[Anthony Gilbert (author)|Anthony Gilbert]]
+*[[Anthony Gilbert (author)|Anthony Gilbert]]
-** ''[[The Man Who Wasn't There (Gilbert novel)|The Man Who Wasn't There]]''
+**''[[The Man Who Wasn't There (Gilbert novel)|The Man Who Wasn't There]]''
-** ''[[Murder Has No Tongue]]''
+**''[[Murder Has No Tongue]]''
 *[[Witold Gombrowicz]] – ''[[Ferdydurke]]''
+*[[Cyril Hare]] – ''[[Tenant for Death]]''
 *[[Sadegh Hedayat]] – ''[[The Blind Owl]]'' (بوف کور, ''Boof-e koor'')
 *[[Ernest Hemingway]] – ''[[To Have and Have Not]]''
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 *[[Franz Kafka]] (posthumously translated by [[Willa Muir|Willa]] and [[Edwin Muir]]) – ''[[The Trial]]'' (first English translation of ''Der Process'')
 *[[Irmgard Keun]] – ''[[After Midnight (Keun novel)|After Midnight]]'' (''Nach Mitternacht'')
+*[[Ronald Knox]] – ''[[Double Cross Purposes]]''
 *[[Kalki Krishnamurthy]] – ''Kalvaninn Kaadhali''
 *[[Halldór Laxness]] – ''Ljós heimsins (The Light of the World)'' – Part I, ''Heimsljós (World Light)''
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 **''Mona Lisa''
 *[[Meyer Levin]] – ''The Old Bunch''
-*[[E.C.R. Lorac]]
+*[[E. C. R. Lorac]]
 **''[[Bats in the Belfry (novel)|Bats in the Belfry]]''
 **''[[These Names Make Clues]]''
-* [[Ngaio Marsh]] – ''[[Vintage Murder]]''
+*[[Ngaio Marsh]] – ''[[Vintage Murder]]''
 *[[A. E. W. Mason]] – ''[[The Drum (novel)|The Drum]]''
 *[[Cameron McCabe]] –  ''[[The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor]]''
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 **''Octagon House''
 **''[[Beginning with a Bash]]'' (as by Alice Tilton)
-* [[Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet|Henry Wade]] – ''[[The High Sheriff]]''
+*[[Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet|Henry Wade]] – ''[[The High Sheriff]]''
 *[[Mika Waltari]] – ''[[A Stranger Came to the Farm]] (Vieras mies tuli taloon)''
+*[[Ethel Lina White]] – ''[[The Elephant Never Forgets]]''
 *[[Charles Williams (British writer)|Charles Williams]] – ''[[Descent into Hell (novel)|Descent into Hell]]''
 *[[Virginia Woolf]] – ''[[The Years]]''
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+* [[Anthony Armstrong (writer)|Anthony Armstrong]] – ''[[Mile Away Murder]]''
 *[[Bertolt Brecht]] with [[Margarete Steffin]] – ''Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar'' (adapted from [[J. M. Synge]]'s ''[[Señora Carrar's Rifles]]'')
 *[[Karel Čapek]] – ''[[The White Disease]] (Bílá nemoc)''
 *[[Paul Vincent Carroll]] – ''Shadow and Substance''
 *[[Jeffrey Dell]] – ''[[Blondie White]]''
-* [[Reginald Denham]] and [[Edward Percy Smith]] – ''[[The Last Straw (play)|The Last Straw]]''
+* [[Reginald Denham]] and [[Edward Percy Smith]]
+* ''[[The Last Straw (play)|The Last Straw]]''
+* ''[[Suspect (play)|Suspect]]''
 *[[Ian Hay]] – ''[[The Gusher]]''
 *[[Margaret Kennedy]] – ''[[Autumn (play)|Autumn]]''
 *[[Arthur Kober]] – ''"Having Wonderful Time"''
 * [[Richard Llewellyn]] – ''[[Poison Pen (play)|Poison Pen]]''
+*[[W.P. Lipscomb]] – ''[[Thank You, Mr. Pepys!]]''
 *[[Robert McLellan]] – ''Jamie the Saxt''
 *[[Robert Morley]] – ''[[Goodness, How Sad]]''
 *[[J. B. Priestley]] – ''[[Time and the Conways]]''
-*Walter Charles Roberts – ''[[Red Harvest (play)| Red Harvest]]''<ref name="nyt">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/03/31/archives/the-play-red-harvest-from-a-diary-of-the-red-cross-at-the-front.html|title=THE PLAY; ' Red Harvest,' From a Diary of the Red Cross at the Front During the War|first=Brooks|last=Atkinson|date=March 31, 1937|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/03/31/94347588.html?pageNumber=29|title=THE PLAY; ' Red Harvest,' From a Diary of the Red Cross at the Front During the War|website=timesmachine.nytimes.com}}</ref>
+*Walter Charles Roberts – ''[[Red Harvest (play)|Red Harvest]]''<ref name="nyt">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/03/31/archives/the-play-red-harvest-from-a-diary-of-the-red-cross-at-the-front.html|title=THE PLAY; ' Red Harvest,' From a Diary of the Red Cross at the Front During the War|first=Brooks|last=Atkinson|date=March 31, 1937|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/03/31/94347588.html?pageNumber=29|title=THE PLAY; ' Red Harvest,' From a Diary of the Red Cross at the Front During the War|website=timesmachine.nytimes.com}}</ref>
 *[[Gerald Savory]] – ''[[George and Margaret]]''
 *[[Dodie Smith]] – ''[[Bonnet Over the Windmill]]''
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 *[[Hilaire Belloc]] – ''The Crusades: the World's Debate''
 *Alf K. Berle and [[L. Sprague de Camp]] – ''[[Inventions and Their Management]]''
-*[[Robert Byron]] – ''[[The Road to Oxiana]]''
+*[[Robert Byron (travel writer)|Robert Byron]] – ''[[The Road to Oxiana]]''
+*[[Jean Giono]] – ''[[Les Vraies Richesses]]''
 *[[Napoleon Hill]] – ''[[Think and Grow Rich]]''
 *[[Carl Jung]] – ''Dream Symbols of the Individuation Process''
 *[[Walter Lippmann]] – ''[[The Good Society]]''
-*[[John Neal (writer)|John Neal]] — ''American Writers: A Series of Papers Contributed to Blackwood's Magazine (1824-1825)'' (edited by [[Fred Lewis Pattee]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Sears | first = Donald A. | title = John Neal | publisher = Twayne Publishers | location = Boston, Massachusetts | year = 1978 | isbn = 080-5-7723-08 | page = 147}}</ref>
+*[[John Neal (writer)|John Neal]] – ''[[American Writers: A Series of Papers Contributed to Blackwood's Magazine (1824–1825)]]'' (edited by [[Fred Lewis Pattee]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Sears | first = Donald A. | title = John Neal | publisher = Twayne Publishers | location = Boston, Massachusetts | year = 1978 | isbn = 080-5-7723-08 | page = 147}}</ref>
 *[[Manuel Chaves Nogales]] – ''[[:es:A sangre y fuego|A sangre y fuego: Héroes, bestias y mártires de España]]'' (Fire and sword: heroes, beasts and martyrs of Spain)
 *[[George Orwell]] – ''[[The Road to Wigan Pier]]''
 *[[Eric Partridge]] – ''[[A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English]]''
+*[[N. Porsenna]] – ''Regenerarea neamului românesc'' (Regeneration of the Romanian People)
+*[[A. L. Zissu]] – ''Logos, Israel, Biserica'' (Logos, Israel, The Church)
 ==Births==
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 **[[S. Abdul Rahman]], Tamil poet (died [[2017 in literature|2017]])
 *[[November 17]] – [[Peter Cook]], English comedian, satirist and writer (died [[1995 in literature|1995]])
-*[[December 3]] – [[Binod Bihari Verma]], [[Maithili language#Literature|Maithili]] man of letters (died [[2003 in literature|2003]])
 *[[December 11]] – [[Jim Harrison]], American novelist and poet (died [[2016 in literature|2016]])
 *[[December 22]]
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 ==Deaths==
 *[[January 5]] – [[Alberto de Oliveira]], Brazilian poet (born [[1857 in literature|1857]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Brazilian Literature: 1880-1920: Naturalism, realism-Parnassianism, symbolism|publisher=Georgetown University Press|year=1974|page=50}}</ref>
+*[[January 11]] – [[Emma A. Cranmer]], American author, reformer, suffragist (born [[1858 in literature|1858]])
 *[[February 19]]
 **[[Edward Garnett]], English critic (born [[1868 in literature|1868]])<ref>{{cite book|author=T. H. White|title=Letters to a Friend|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xdTDKLXhJ8YC|date=May 1984|publisher=Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated|isbn=978-0-425-06816-8|page=91}}</ref>
 **[[Horacio Quiroga]], Uruguayan short story writer (suicide, born [[1878 in literature|1878]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Pan American Union|title=Bulletin of the Pan American Union|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pBpnAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA588|year=1937|publisher=The Union|pages=588}}</ref>
 *[[March 7]] – [[Tomas O'Crohan]], Irish Gaelic writer and fisherman (born [[1856 in literature|1856]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Seán Ó Criomhthain|title=A Day in Our Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ofVQmkm4tloC&pg=PA23|year=1993|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-283119-4|pages=23}}</ref>
-*[[March 8]] – [[Albert Verwey]], Dutch poet (born [[1865 in literature|1865]])<ref name="BloomWalter1979">{{cite book|author1=Lansing Bartlett Bloom|author2=Paul A. F. Walter|title=New Mexico Historical Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ak4UAAAAYAAJ|year=1979|publisher=University of New Mexico|page=127-128}}</ref>
+*[[March 8]] – [[Albert Verwey]], Dutch poet (born [[1865 in literature|1865]])<ref name="BloomWalter1979">{{cite book|author1=Lansing Bartlett Bloom|author2=Paul A. F. Walter|title=New Mexico Historical Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ak4UAAAAYAAJ|year=1979|publisher=University of New Mexico|pages=127–128}}</ref>
 *[[March 15]] – [[H. P. Lovecraft]], American horror writer (intestinal cancer, born [[1890 in literature|1890]])<ref>{{cite book|author=S. T. Joshi|title=H.P. Lovecraft: A Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F1qvAAAAIAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Necronomicon Press|isbn=978-0-940884-88-5|page=631}}</ref>
 *[[March 25]] – [[John Drinkwater (playwright)|John Drinkwater]], English poet and dramatist (born [[1882 in literature|1882]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Frank Northen Magill|title=Critical Survey of Drama: Authors A-Z|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JK85AAAAMAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Salem Press|isbn=978-0-89356-377-6|page=506}}</ref>
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 *[[August 14]] – [[H. C. McNeile]] (Sapper), English novelist and soldier (born [[1888 in literature|1888]])
 *[[September 13]] – [[Ellis Parker Butler]], American humorist, novelist and essayist (born [[1869 in literature|1869]])
+*[[October 13]] – [[Dmitrii Milev]], Soviet Moldovan shorty story writer and critic (shot, born [[1887 in literature|1887]])
 *[[October 15]] – [[Samuil Lehtțir]], Soviet Moldovan poet, critic and literary theorist (shot, born [[1901 in literature|1901]])
 *[[October 16]] – [[Jean de Brunhoff]], French children's author and illustrator (born [[1899 in literature|1899]])
+*[[November 3]] – [[Mykola Kulish]], Ukrainian writer (shot with many other Ukrainian intellectuals at [[Sandarmokh]], born [[1892 in literature|1892]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Kulish, Mykola |url=https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CK%5CU%5CKulishMykola.htm |website=encyclopediaofukraine.com |access-date=1 April 2024}}</ref>
-*[[October 17]] – [[Florence Dugdale]], English children's writer, widow of Thomas Hardy (cancer, born [[1879 in literature|1879]])<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=lNKi2qGPewwC&pg=PR22&lpg=PR22&dq=florence+hardy+died+1937&source=bl&ots=6vf-2o6lMF&sig=ANwZxu2ynEJCXw5KlzhmHLk2PWY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=uR_rVNTlE8n3aqHSgLAN&ved=0CEEQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=florence%20hardy%20died%201937&f=false ''Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy''. p. xxiii. Retrieved 2015-02-23.]</ref>
+*[[November 3]] – [[Mykola Zerov]],  Ukrainian poet, translator, classical and literary scholar and critic (shot at Sandarmokh, born [[1890 in literature|1890]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Zerov, Mykola |url=https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CZ%5CE%5CZerovMykola.htm |website=encyclopediaofukraine.com |access-date=1 April 2024}}</ref>
+*[[November 3]] – [[Valerian Pidmohylny]], Ukrainian writer, (shot at Sandarmokh, born [[1901 in literature|1901]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Pidmohylny, Valeriian |url=https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CP%5CI%5CPidmohylnyValeriian.htm |website=encyclopediaofukraine.com |access-date=1 April 2024}}</ref>
+*[[November 3]] – [[Hryhorii Epik]], Ukrainian writer and journalist (shot at Sandarmokh, born [[1901 in literature|1901]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Epik, Hryhorii |url=https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CE%5CP%5CEpikHryhorii.htm |website=encyclopediaofukraine.com |access-date=1 April 2024}}</ref>
+*[[November 3]] – [[Myroslav Irchan]], Ukrainian storywriter and playwright (shot at Sandarmokh, born [[1897 in literature|1897]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Irchan, Myroslav |url=https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CI%5CR%5CIrchanMyroslav.htm |website=encyclopediaofukraine.com |access-date=1 April 2024}}</ref>
+*[[October 17]] – [[Florence Dugdale]], English children's writer, widow of Thomas Hardy (cancer, born [[1879 in literature|1879]])<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=lNKi2qGPewwC&dq=florence+hardy+died+1937&pg=PR22 ''Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy''. p. xxiii. Retrieved 2015-02-23.]</ref>
 *[[October 22]] – [[Chūya Nakahara]] (中原 中也), Japanese poet (meningitis, born [[1907 in literature|1907]])
 *[[October 31]] – [[Ralph Connor]], Canadian novelist (born [[1860 in literature|1860]])
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