1931 in literature
See also: 1930 in literature, other events of 1931, 1932 in literature, list of years in literature.
EventsSamuel Beckett publishes "Proust," a collection of essaysCherokee playwright Lynn Rigg's play Green Grow the Lilacs premiers. It would later be adapted by Rodgers and Hammerstein as Oklahoma.
New booksAfternoon Men - Anthony Powell Black No More - George S. Schuyler The Cat Who Went to Heaven - Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth The Chinaberry Tree - Jessie Redmond FausetThe Colored Gentlemen, A Product of Modern Civilization - Dennis F. ImbertThe Conqueror – Georgette HeyerThe Dutch Shoe Mystery - Ellery QueenThe Glass Key - Dashiell HammettThe Good Earth - Pearl S. BuckHatter's Castle - A.J. CroninHighland Fling - Nancy MitfordJudith Paris - Hugh WalpoleThe Lonely Road - Nevil ShuteA New Theory of Magnetic Storms - Chapman and FerraroNo Man's Meat - Morley CallaghanPrince Jali - Leopold MyersThe Secret of Shadow Ranch - Carolyn KeeneWild Orchid (novel) - Sigrid Undset
Births January 6 - E. L. Doctorow, author January 10 - Peter Barnes, playwright January 27 - Mordecai Richler, author (d. 2001) February 10 - Thomas Bernhard, author (d. 1989) February 11 - Larry Merchant, author/boxing commentator February 18 - Johnny Hart, cartoonist February 18 - Toni Morrison, writer, winner 1993 Nobel Prize in literature March 2 - Tom Wolfe July 7 - David Eddings, American novelist August 12 - William Goldman, author October 19 - John le Carré
Deaths August 27 - Frank Harris, author and editor, August 31 - Hall Caine, author October 13 - Ernst Didring, Swedish writer,
Awards 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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