1941 in literature
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See also: 1940 in literature, other events of 1941, 1942 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- Frank Herbert marries Flora Parkinson.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished work, The Last Tycoon, is edited and published by Edmund Wilson.
[edit] New books
- Margery Allingham - Traitor's Purse
- William Attaway - Blood On The Forge
- Frans Gunnar Bengtsson - The Long Ships (part 1)
- Maurice Blanchot - Thomas l'obscure
- James M. Cain - Mildred Pierce
- Joyce Cary - Herself Surprised
- Agatha Christie - Death Comes as the End
- A. J. Cronin - The Keys of the Kingdom
- Walter D. Edmonds - The Matchlock Gun
- Katheryn Campbell Graham - Under the Cottonwood
- Robert A. Heinlein - Methuselah's Children
- James Hilton - Random Harvest
- C.S. Lewis - The Screwtape Letters
- Janet Lewis - The Wife of Martin Guerre
- Robert McCloskey - Make Way for Ducklings
- Hugh MacLennan - Barometer Rising
- W. Somerset Maugham - Up at the Villa
- Oscar Micheaux - The Wind From Nowhere
- Vladimir Nabokov - The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
- Flann O'Brien - An Béal Bocht
- E. Phillips Oppenheim - The Shy Plutocrat
- H. A. Rey and Margret Rey - Curious George
- Budd Schulberg - What Makes Sammy Run?
- Armstrong Sperry - Call It Courage
- L. Sprague de Camp - Lest Darkness Fall (Complete novel)
- Eudora Welty - A Curtain of Green
- Franz Werfel - The Song of Bernadette
[edit] New drama
[edit] Poetry
- William Rose Benét - The Dust which is God
- G. S. Fraser - The Fatal Landscape and Other Poems
[edit] Births
- March 13 - Donella Meadows, Limits to Growth author
- April 10 - Paul Theroux, novelist and travel writer
- May 19 - Nora Ephron, novelist and screenwriter
- June 5 - Spalding Gray, screenwriter and dramatist
- June 27 - James P. Hogan, science fiction author
- October 2 - John Sinclair, poet
- October 4 - Anne Rice, horror/fantasy writer
- October 13 - John Snow, cricketer and poet
- October 25 - Anne Tyler, novelist
- date unknown - Pepetela, novelist
- date unknown - Miles Kington, journalist
[edit] Deaths
- January 4 - Henri Bergson, writer
- January 6 - F. R. Higgins, poet
- January 13 - James Joyce, writer
- January 23 - John Oxenham, novelist and poet
- February 7 - Banjo Paterson, poet
- February 9 - Elizabeth von Arnim, novelist
- March 28 - Virginia Woolf, author
- June 1 - Hugh Walpole, novelist
- June 15 - Evelyn Underhill, poet
- August 7 - Rabindranath Tagore, author
- November 18 – Émile Nelligan, poet
[edit] Awards
- Frost Medal: Robert Frost
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Armstrong Sperry, Call It Courage
- Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Robert E. Sherwood, There Shall Be No Night
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Leonard Bacon: Sunderland Capture
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: no award given
