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1940 in literature
See also: 1939 in literature, other events of 1940, 1941 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- June 4 - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers is published.
New Books
- The Corinthian – Georgette Heyer
- Counter-Clockwise - John M. Lee
- Daniel Boone - James Daugherty
- Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler
- The Don Flows Home to the Sea - Mikhail Sholokov
- The Earth is the Lord's - Taylor Caldwell
- Farewell, My Lovely - Raymond Chandler
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
- Horton Hatches the Egg - Dr. Seuss
- King's Row - Henry Bellamann
- Last Train Out - E. Phillipe Oppenheim
- The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead
- A Mathematician's Apology - G. H. Hardy
- Native Son - Richard Wright
- The Ox-bow Incident - Walter Clark
- Pal Joey - John O'Hara
- Pat the Bunny - Dorothy Kunhardt
- Sapphira And The Slave - Willa Cather
- Trouble in July - Erskine Caldwell
- When the Whippoorwill - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Births
- February 4 - George Romero, horror movie writer, producer, director
- February 29 - Edward Frederick Benson, American writer
- March 16 - Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian writer and film director
- May 7 - Angela Carter, English magical realist author
Deaths
- March 10 - Mikhaïl Boulgakov, Russian writer
- March 16 - Selma Lagerlöf, writer
- December 21 - F Scott Fitzgerald
- December 22 - Nathanael West
Awards
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: James Daugherty , Daniel Boone
- Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: William Saroyan, The Time of Your Life
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mark Van Doren: Collected Poems
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
Last updated: 11-05-2004 21:46:00