1944 in literature

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The year 1944 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

James K. Baxter – Beyond the Palisade
Paul Éluard – Au rendez-vous allemand (To the German Rendezvous)
Five Young American Poets, volume 3, including work by Eve Merriam, John Frederick Nims, Jean Garrigue, Tennessee Williams and Alejandro Carrión
Nicholas Moore – The Glass Tower

January 8 – Terry Brooks, writer of fantasy fiction
January 21 – Jack Abbott, murderer and acclaimed writer
February 7 – Witi Ihimaera, New Zealand Māori writer, author of The Whale Rider
February 14
- Alan Parker, director, writer
- Carl Bernstein, journalist
February 16 – Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist
May 13 – Armistead Maupin, novelist
May 17 – Uldis Bērziņš, poet and translator
May 18 – W. G. Sebald, novelist (d. 2001)
June 5 – John Fraser, journalist
August 18 – Paula Danziger, young adult book novelist
August 30 – Molly Ivins, journalist
October 2 – Vernor Vinge, science fiction novelist
October 5 – Tomás de Jesús Mangual, journalist
November 7 – Peter Wilby, journalist
November 24 – Eintou Pearl Springer, poet
November 28 – Rita Mae Brown, writer and political activist
December 17 – Jack L. Chalker, science fiction novelist
date unknown
- Tom Leonard, dialect poet
- Patrick O'Connell, poet (d. 2004)

January 6 – Ida M. Tarbell, journalist
January 8 – Joseph Jastrow, psychologist
January 31 – Jean Giraudoux, dramatist
February 10 – Israel Joshua Singer, Yiddish novelist
February 12 – Olive Custance, poet (b. 1874)
March 5
- Max Jacob, poet and critic
- Alun Lewis, war poet (accidental shooting)
March 28 – Stephen Leacock, economist
May 3 – Anica Černej, Slovenian poet (b. 1900) (concentration camp victim)
May 12 – Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, "Q"
May 16 – George Ade, journalist and dramatist
June
- Joseph Campbell, poet (b. 1879)
- Elizabeth Wharton Drexel, socialite and author
June 9 – Keith Douglas, war poet
June 16 – Marc Bloch, historian
July 31 – Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer (b. 1900)
September 13 – W. Heath Robinson, cartoonist and illustrator
October 19 – Karel Poláček, writer, humourist, journalist
November 15 – Edith Durham, travel writer (b. 1863)
December 17 – Robert Nichols, poet and dramatist (b. 1893)
December 30 – Romain Rolland, Nobel Prize winning author
date unknown – Ethel Lina White, crime novelist