1940 in literature
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See also: 1939 in literature, other events of 1940, 1941 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- Aldous Huxley is a screenwriter for the movie adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.
- Jean-Paul Sartre is taken prisoner by the Germans.
- Robertson Davies joins the Old Vic repertory company.
[edit] New books
- Henry Bellamann - King's Row
- Edgar Rice Burroughs - Synthetic Men of Mars
- Erskine Caldwell - Trouble in July
- Taylor Caldwell - The Earth is the Lord's
- Willa Cather - Sapphira And The Slave
- Raymond Chandler - Farewell, My Lovely
- Walter Clark - The Ox-bow Incident
- James Daugherty - Daniel Boone
- Graham Greene - The Power and the Glory
- Georgette Heyer - The Corinthian
- Arthur Koestler - Darkness at Noon
- Dorothy Kunhardt- Pat the Bunny
- John M. Lee - Counter-Clockwise
- Carson McCullers - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
- John O'Hara - Pal Joey
- E. Phillipe Oppenheim - Last Train Out
- Raymond Postgate - Verdict of Twelve
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - When the Whippoorwill
- Mikhail Sholokov - The Don Flows Home to the Sea
- Dr. Seuss - Horton Hatches the Egg -
- Christina Stead - The Man Who Loved Children
- Richard Wright - Native Son
[edit] New drama
- Agatha Christie - Peril at End House
- Jean Cocteau - Le Bel Indifférent
- George Shiels - The Rugged Path
[edit] Non-fiction
- "Cato" (Michael Foot and others) - Guilty Men
- G. H. Hardy - A Mathematician's Apology
- C. S. Lewis - The Problem of Pain
- A. A. Milne - War with Honour
[edit] Births
- January 14 - Sir Trevor Nunn, theatre director
- February 4 - George Romero, horror movie writer, producer, director
- February 29 - Edward Frederic Benson, American writer
- March 16 - Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian writer and film director
- March 28 - Russell Banks, novelist
- April 15 - Jeffrey Archer, novelist
- May 7 - Angela Carter, English magical realist author
- May 8 - Peter Benchley, novelist
- May 13 - Bruce Chatwin, travel writer
- May 28 - Maeve Binchy, novelist
- October 20 - Robert Pinsky, poet
- December 5 - Peter Pohl, novelist
[edit] Deaths
- January 5 - Humbert Wolfe, poet and epigrammist
- January 27 - Isaac Babel, journalist and dramatist
- February 29 - E. F. Benson, novelist
- March 7 - Edwin Markham, poet
- March 10 - Mikhaïl Boulgakov, Russian writer
- March 16
- Selma Lagerlöf, writer
- Thomas Heath, historian and translator
- June 10 - Marcus Garvey, journalist and publisher
- June 20 - Charley Chase, screenwriter
- September - W. H. Davies, poet and Supertramp
- December 21 - F Scott Fitzgerald
- December 22 - Nathanael West
- date unknown - T. O'Conor Sloane, editor of Amazing Stories
[edit] 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
- King's Gold Medal for Poetry: Michael Thwaites
