1929 in literature

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The year 1929 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Non-fiction 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Awards

[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.
• Ellery Queen publishes his first mystery novel.

[edit] New books

• Richard Aldington - Death of a Hero
• Hamilton Basso - Relics and Angels
• Anthony Berkeley - The Poisoned Chocolates Case
• Mary Borden - The Forbidden Zone
• Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan and the Lost Empire
• Mateiu Caragiale - Craii de Curtea-Veche
• Jean Cocteau - Les Enfants Terribles
• Colette - Sido
• Aleister Crowley - The Stratagem and other Stories
• Alfred Döblin - Berlin Alexanderplatz
• Lloyd C. Douglas - Magnificent Obsession
• Arthur Conan Doyle - The Maracot Deep
• 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
• Floyd Gibbons - The Red Napoleon
• Julien Green - The Dark Journey
• Dashiell Hammett
  • The Dain Curse
  • Red Harvest
• 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
• S. S. Van Dine - The Scarab Murder Case
• 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
• Elmer Rice - Street Scene
• 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 - The 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 for fiction: J. B. Priestley, The Good Companions
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Lord David Cecil, The Stricken Deer: or The Life of Cowper
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Eric P. Kelly, The Trumpeter of Krakow
• Newdigate prize: Phyllis Hartnoll
• 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 Benét: John Brown's Body
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Julia Peterkin - Scarlet Sister Mary