1943 in literature
See also: 1942 in literature, other events of 1943, 1944 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
New booksAdam of the Road - Elizabeth Janet GrayThe Apostle - Sholem AschBeing and Nothingness - Jean-Paul Sartre Citizen Tom Paine - Howard Fast Claudius the God - Robert GravesEarth's Last Citadel - C. L. MooreThe Fountainhead - Ayn RandGremlins - Roald DahlThe Lady In The Lake - Raymond ChandlerThe Last of Summer - Kate O'BrienThe Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-ExuperyThe Nature and Destiny of Man - Reinhold NiebuhrMr. Mirakel - E. Phillips OppenheimThe Ship - C.S. ForesterThe Raven - Chancellor Williams A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty SmithVictoria Grandolet - Henry Bellamann The White Face - Carl Offord
Births January 4 - Doris Kearns Goodwin, writer January 11 - Jim Hightower, radio host, author February 15 - Elke Heidenreich, journalist and writer February 18 - Graeme Garden, writer, comedian, actor L. E. Modesitt, Jr - fantasy and science fiction writer
Deaths March 10 - Lawrence Binyon, poet and scholar December 22 - Beatrix Potter, Children's author
Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: Janet Elizabeth Gray, Adam of the Road Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Frost: A Witness Tree Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Upton Sinclair - Dragon's Teeth
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