1931 in literature Totally Explained

Everything about 1931 In Literature totally explained

The year 1931 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

Cherokee playwright Lynn Riggs' play Green Grow the Lilacs premiers. It would later be adapted by Rodgers and Hammerstein as Oklahoma!.
The very first Inspector Maigret novel is published under the title Pietr-le-Letton. Georges Simenon would eventually write 75 novels, as well as 28 short stories, featuring the pipe-smoking detective.
October 4 - Debut appearance of the Dick Tracy comic strip, created by cartoonist Chester Gould.

New books

Shmuel Yosef Agnon - The Bridal Canopy

Margery Allingham - Police at the Funeral

Willa Cather - Shadows on the Rock

Pearl S. Buck - The Good Earth

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Morley Callaghan - No Man's Meat

Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth - The Cat Who Went to Heaven

A. J. Cronin - Hatter's Castle

E. E. Cummings - CIOPW

Detection Club - The Floating Admiral

William Faulkner

Sanctuary
These 13

Jessie Redmon Fauset - The Chinaberry Tree

Emma Goldman - Living My Life

Caroline Gordon - Penhally

Dashiell Hammett - The Glass Key

Georgette Heyer - The Conqueror

Knud Holmboe - Desert Encounter

Fannie Hurst - Back Street

Francis Iles - Malice Aforethought

Dennis F. Imbert - The Colored Gentlemen, A Product of Modern Civilization

Erich Kästner - The 35th of May, or Conrad's Ride to the South Seas

Carolyn Keene - The Secret of Shadow Ranch

Nancy Mitford - Highland Fling (novel)

Thomas Mofolo - Chaka

Leopold Myers - Prince Jali

Ilf and Petrov - The Little Golden Calf

Anthony Powell - Afternoon Men

Ellery Queen - The Dutch Shoe Mystery

Arthur Ransome - Swallowdale

Erich Remarque - The Road Back

Dorothy Sayers - Strong Poison

George S. Schuyler - Black No More

Nevil Shute - The Lonely Road

Georges Simenon - Pietr-le-Letton

Upton Sinclair - Roman Holiday

Sigrid Undset - Wild Orchid (novel)

Hugh Walpole - Judith Paris

Virginia Woolf - The Waves

P.G. Wodehouse

Big Money
If I Were You

Nathanael West - The Dream Life of Balso Snell

New drama

Federico Garcia Lorca - Así que pasen cinco años ('When Five Years Pass') (not performed until 1945)

Eugene O'Neill - Mourning Becomes Electra

Dodie Smith - Autumn Crocus

Thornton Wilder - The Long Christmas Dinner and Other Plays in One Act

Non-fiction

Ali Akbar Dehkhoda et al - Dehkhoda Dictionary of the Persian language

Samuel Beckett - Proust

W. Chapman & V.C.A. Ferraro - A New Theory of Magnetic Storms

Julius Evola - The Hermetic Tradition

Irma S. Rombauer - The Joy of Cooking

Births

January 6 - E. L. Doctorow, author

January 9 - Algis Budrys, science fiction author

January 10 - Peter Barnes, playwright

January 17 - Mark Brandis, journalist and science fiction author

January 27

John Hopkins, screenwriter
Mordecai Richler, author (d. 2001)

February 10 - Thomas Bernhard, author (d. 1989)

February 11 - Larry Merchant, author/boxing commentator

February 12 - Janwillem van de Wetering, crime writer

February 18

Johnny Hart, cartoonist
Toni Morrison, writer, winner 1993 Nobel Prize in literature

February 19 - Robert Sobel, business writer

March 2 - Tom Wolfe, novelist

April 21 - Gabriel de Broglie, historian

April 29 - Robert Gottlieb, editor

June 12 - Robin Cook, British novelist

June 21 - Patricia Goedicke, poet

July 4 - Sébastien Japrisot, novelist and screenwriter

July 7 - David Eddings, American novelist

July 10

Nick Adams, screenwriter
Julian May, science fiction author

August 12 - William Goldman, author

August 22 - Maurice Gee, novelist

September 22 - Fay Weldon, novelist

October 8 - Dennis Silk, friend of Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden

October 19 - John le Carré, novelist

November 18 - Nikoloz Janashia, historian

Deaths

March 27 - Arnold Bennett, novelist

April 4 - André Michelin, originator of the Michelin Guide

April 10 - Khalil Gibran, poet

August 27 - Frank Harris, author and editor,

August 31 - Hall Caine, author

October 13 - Ernst Didring, Swedish writer

December 26 - Melvil Dewey, inventor of the most widely-used library classification system

December 27 - Alfred Perceval Graves, author and collector of songs and ballads

Awards

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Kate O'Brien, Without My Cloak

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: J. Y. R. Greig, David Hume

Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth Coatsworth, The Cat Who Went to Heaven

Nobel Prize for literature - Erik Axel Karlfeldt

Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Susan Glaspell, Alison's House

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Frost: Collected Poems

Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Margaret Ayer Barnes - Years of Grace

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