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1939 in literature
See also: 1938 in literature, other events of 1939, 1940 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- December 25 - A Christmas Carol was read before a radio audience for the first time.
- The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West is published.
- Finnegans Wake by James Joyce is published.
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck is published.
New Books
- The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
- Children of God - Vardis Fisher
- The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West
- Drums at Dusk - Arna Wendell Bontemps
- Files on Parade - John O'Hara
- Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
- The Gladiators - Arthur Koestler
- The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
- Let Me Breathe Thunder - William Attaway
- Listen for the Voices - Anne Colver
- Magna - Zona Gale
- The Mask of Dimitrios - Eric Ambler
- The Mysterious Mickey Finn - Elliot Paul
- Melbourne - David Cecil
- Moses, Man Of The Mountain - Zora Neale Hurston
- The Nazarene - Sholem Asch
- Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats – T. S. Eliot
- The Outsider and Others - H. P. Lovecraft
- The Patriot - Pearl S. Buck
- Snow of Kilimanjaro - Ernest Hemingway
- Studies in Iconology - Erwin Panofsky
- Thimble Summer - Elizabeth Enright
- The Tree of Liberty - Elizabeth Page
- If I Forget Thee Jerusalem (The Wild Palms/Old Man) - William Faulkner
Births
- Michael Moorcock, English science fiction author
Deaths
- January 28 - William Butler Yeats, writer
Awards
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth Enright , Thimble Summer
- Nobel Prize for literature: Frans Eemil Sillanpää
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Robert E. Sherwood , Abe Lincoln in Illinois
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: John Gould Fletcher: Selected Poems
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - The Yearling
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