1942 in literature
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The year 1942 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- André Gide leaves France to live in Tunis.
- Robertson Davies becomes editor of the Peterborough Examiner.
- Thomas Mann emigrates to California.
- James Hilton wins an Oscar for the screenplay of Mrs. Miniver.
- The New York Times launches influential New York Times Best Seller list.
[edit] New fiction books
- John Steinbeck - The Moon is Down
- Samuel Hopkins Adams - The Harvey Girls
- Henry Bellamann - Floods of Spring
- Earle Birney - David
- Jean Bruller - Le Silence de la mer
- Taylor Caldwell - The Strong City
- Albert Camus - The Stranger (L'Étranger)
- John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson" - The Gilded Man
- Joyce Cary - To Be a Pilgrim
- Raymond Chandler - The High Window
- Agatha Christie - Five Little Pigs
- Lloyd C. Douglas - The Robe
- Daphne du Maurier - Frenchman's Creek
- Rachel Field - And Now Tomorrow
- Robert A. Heinlein - Beyond This Horizon
- Kalki Krishnamurthy - Parthiban Kanavu
- C. S. Lewis - The Screwtape Letters
- Janette Sebring Lowrey - The Poky Little Puppy
- Beryl Markham - West with the Night
- Robert Musil - The Man Without Qualities
- Annie Greene Nelson - After The Storm
- Ellery Queen - Calamity Town
- Raymond Queneau - Pierrot mon ami
- Clayton Rawson - No Coffin for the Corpse
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - Cross Creek
- Nevil Shute - Pied Piper
- Curt Siodmak - Donovan's Brain
- Clark Ashton Smith - Out of Space and Time
- Rex Stout - Black Orchids
- Evelyn Waugh - Put Out More Flags
- Cornell Woolrich - Black Alibi
[edit] New drama
- Jean Anouilh - Antigone
- Kaj Munk - Niels Ebbesen
- Eugene O'Neill - A Touch of the Poet (written)
[edit] Poetry
[edit] Non-fiction
- Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus (Le Mythe de Sisyphe)
- Edith Hamilton - Mythology
- Aldous Huxley - The Art of Seeing
- C. S. Lewis - A Preface to Paradise Lost
- Elliot Paul - The Last Time I Saw Paris
- Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. - Picketing Hell
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - Flight to Arras
- Rebecca West - Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
[edit] Births
- January 31 - Derek Jarman, director, writer (d. 1994)
- February 1 - Terry Jones, comedian and writer
- March 2 - John Irving, novelist
- April 1 - Samuel R. Delany, novelist and critic
- April 4 - Kitty Kelley, journalist and biographer
- April 6 - Barry Levinson, screenwriter, director and producer
- August 2 - Isabel Allende, novelist
- August 7 - Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days author
- October 23 - Michael Crichton, author (d. 2008)
- October 23 - Douglas Dunn, poet
- December 6 - Peter Handke, Austrian novelist
- date unknown - Gladys Cardiff, poet
- date unknown - Craig Thomas, novelist
[edit] Deaths
- April 24 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables novelist
- May 26 - Libero Bovio, Neapolitan dialect poet
- June 30 - Léon Daudet, journalist
- July 20 - Moses Annenberg, publisher
- September 19 - Condé Nast, magazine publisher
- September 26 - Oskar Kraus, philosopher
- October 14 - Cosmo Hamilton, dramatist and novelist
- October 20 - Friedrich Münzer, classical scholar
- 23 December - Konstantin Bal'mont, poet
- date unknown - Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson, Greyfriars Bobby author
[edit] Awards
- Carnegie Medal: Denys Watkins-Pitchford
- Frost Medal: Edgar Lee Masters
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Arthur Waley, Translation of Monkey by Wu Cheng'en
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede, Henry Ponsonby: Queen Victoria's Private Secretary
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Walter D. Edmonds, The Matchlock Gun
- Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: not awarded
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William Rose Benet, The Dust Which Is God
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life
