1935 in literature
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[edit] Events
- Penguin Books publishes the first "paperback" book.
- W. H. Auden enters a marriage of convenience with Erika Mann.
- Studs Lonigan - A Trilogy is published by James T. Farrell. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.
[edit] New books
- Maxwell Anderson - Winterset
- Enid Bagnold - National Velvet
- Pearl S. Buck - A House Divided
- Erskine Caldwell - Journeyman
- Morley Callaghan - They Shall Inherit the Earth
- John Dickson Carr - The Hollow Man (aka The Three Coffins)
- Solomon Cleaver - Jean Val Jean
- Robert P. Tristram Coffin - Red Sky in the Morning
- A. J. Cronin - The Stars Look Down
- Franklin W. Dixon - The Hidden Harbor Mystery
- E.R. Eddison - Mistress of Mistresses
- James T. Farrell - Studs Lonigan - A Trilogy
- Rachel Field - Time Out of Mind
- George Wylie Henderson - Ollie Miss
- Georgette Heyer–Death in the Stocks
- Anna Kavan (writing as Helen Ferguson) - A Stranger Still
- John Masefield - The Box of Delights
- George Orwell
- Charles Ferdinand Ramuz - When the Mountain Fell
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - Golden Apples
- George Santayana - The Last Puritan
- Dorothy L. Sayers - Gaudy Night
- Monica Shannon - Dobry
- B. Traven - Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Stanley G. Weinbaum - The Lotus Eaters
[edit] New drama
- T. S. Eliot - Murder in the Cathedral
- Jean Giraudoux - La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu (The Trojan war will not take place)
- Clifford Odets - Waiting for Lefty
- Emlyn Williams - Night Must Fall
[edit] Non-fiction
- George Dangerfield - The Strange Death of Liberal England
- John Maynard Keynes - The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
- Gerald M. Loeb–The Battle for Investment Survival
[edit] Births
- January 30 - Richard Brautigan, writer and poet
- February 5 - Sandra Paretti, author (+ 1994)
- March 1 - Judith Rossner, writer
- March 23 - Barry Cryer, comedy writer
- April 14 - Erich von Däniken, Chariots of the Gods author
- April 15 - Alan Plater, screenwriter
- May 2 - Lynda Lee-Potter, columnist (+ 2004)
- August 15 - Régine Deforges, dramatist, publisher, and author of France's best-selling novel ever
- August 22 - E. Annie Proulx, novelist
- September 17 - Ken Kesey, novelist
- October 7 - Thomas Keneally, Australian novelist
[edit] Deaths
- February 7 - Lewis Grassic Gibbon, novelist
- April 6 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet
- April 11 - Anna Katharine Green, crime writer
- April 18 - Panait Istrati, Romanian novelist and short story writer
- May 19 - T. E. Lawrence, "Lawrence of Arabia"
- August 11 - Sir William Watson, traditionalist poet
- August 17 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, author
- August 30 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist
- October 11 - Steele Rudd, short story writer
- November 30 - Fernando Pessoa, poet
- December 21 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist
[edit] Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize: L. H. Myers, The Root and the Flower
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Monica Shannon, Dobry
- Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Zoe Akins, The Old Maid
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Audrey Wurdemann: Bright Ambush
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Josephine Winslow Johnson - Now in November
