1943 In Literature

Events

New books

• Adam of the Road - Elizabeth Janet Gray
• The Apostle - Sholem Asch
• Being and Nothingness - Jean-Paul Sartre
• Citizen Tom Paine - Howard Fast
• Claudius the God - Robert Graves
• Earth's Last Citadel - C. L. Moore
• The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
• Gremlins - Roald Dahl
• The Lady In The Lake - Raymond Chandler
• The Last of Summer - Kate O'Brien
• The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• The Nature and Destiny of Man - Reinhold Niebuhr
• Mr. Mirakel - E. Phillips Oppenheim
• The Ship - C.S. Forester
• The Raven - Chancellor Williams
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
• Victoria 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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