1929 in literature
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See also: 1928 in literature, other events of 1929, 1930 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- Candide by Voltaire is declared obscene by the United States Customs and seized in 1930.
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is banned in the USSR because of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's interest in the occult.
- George Orwell returns to the UK after living in Paris.
- Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir meet for the first time at the École Normale
[edit] New books
- Richard Aldington - Death of a Hero
- Anthony Berkeley - The Poisoned Chocolates Case
- Jean Cocteau - Les Enfants Terribles
- Albert Evander Coleman - The Romantic Adventures of Rosy, The Octoroon; With Some Account of the Persecution of the Southern Negro During the Reconstruction Period
- Colette - Sido
- Lloyd C. Douglas - Magnificent Obsession
- William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
- Jessie Redmon Fauset - Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral
- Edna Ferber - Cimarron
- C. S. Forester - Brown on Resolution
- Zona Gale - Borgia
- Rómulo Gallegos - Doña Bárbara
- Julien Green - The Dark Journey
- Dashiell Hammett
- Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms
- Richard Hughes **A High Wind in Jamaica
- The Innocent Voyage
- Anna Kavan - A Charmed Circle
- Eric P. Kelly - The Trumpeter of Krakow
- Oliver La Forge - Laughing Boy
- Nella Larsen - Passing
- Sinclair Lewis - Dodsworth
- Claude McKay - Banjo
- Alberto Moravia - Gli indifferenti (Time of Indifference)
- Leopold Myers - The Near and the Far
- Katherine Anne Porter - Flowering Judas
- Ellery Queen - The Roman Hat Mystery
- Erich Maria Remarque - Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front)
- Elmer Rice - Street Scene
- Walter A. Roberts - The Mind Reader
- O. E. Rolvaag - Peder Victorious
- John Steinbeck - Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, With Occasional Reference to History
- Wallace Thurman - The Blacker the Berry
- Sigrid Undset - In the Wilderness
- Thomas Wolfe - Look Homeward, Angel
- Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own
[edit] New drama
- Patrick Hamilton - Rope
- Kaj Munk - I Brændingen
- Stanisława Przybyszewska - The Danton Case
- George Bernard Shaw - The Apple Cart
[edit] Poetry
- Robinson Jeffers - Dear Judas and Other Poems
[edit] Non-fiction
- Ada Boni - Il talismano della felicità (The Talisman of Happiness)
- G. K. Chesterton - Everlasting Man
- Mahatma Gandhi - The Story of My Experiments with Truth
- Robert Graves - Goodbye to All That
- Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress: essays in support of James Joyce
- Walter Lippmann - A Preface to Morals
- A. A. Milne - Those Were the Days
- Alice Prin - Kiki's Memoirs
- E. B. White and James Thurber - Is Sex Necessary?
- Alfred North Whitehead - Process and Reality
[edit] Births
- January 26 - Jules Feiffer, cartoonist, writer
- February 17 - Chaim Potok, author (+ 2002)
- February 18 - Len Deighton, novelist
- April 1 - Milan Kundera, novelist
- July 31 - Lynne Reid Banks, novelist
- August 21 - X. J. Kennedy, poet and translator
- August 29 - Thom Gunn, poet
- November 13 - Theo Aronson, biographer
- November - Steve Carter, dramatist
- December 16 - James Moore, spiritual writer
- December 19 - Howard Sackler, dramatist and screenwriter
- date unknown
- George Garrett, poet
- Anatoly Kuznetsov, dissident novelist
[edit] Deaths
- February 15 - Melville E. Stone, newspaper publisher
- March 26 - Katharine Lee Bates, lyricist of America the Beautiful
- April 16 - Sir John Morris-Jones, Welsh grammarian and poet
- April 21 - Lucy Clifford, novelist
- June 8 - Bliss Carman, poet
- June 22 - Alfred Brunswig, philosopher
- June 25 – Georges Courteline, dramatist and novelist
- July 15 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, novelist and poet
- July 31 - José de Castro, journalist
- date unknown
- Max Lehmann, historian
- Hans Prutz, historian
- Grace Rhys, novelist and poet
- Dallas Lore Sharp, nature writer
[edit] Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize: J. B. Priestley, The Good Companions
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Eric P. Kelly, The Trumpeter of Krakow
- Nobel Prize in literature: Thomas Mann
- O. Henry Award: Dorothy Parker for Big Blonde (short story)
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Elmer L. Rice, Street Scene
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Vincent Benet: John Brown's Body
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Julia Peterkin - Scarlet Sister Mary
