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The year 1938 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

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Events

The trilogy, U.S.A. by John Dos Passos, is published containing his three novels The 42nd Parallel (1930), 1919 (1932), and The Big Money (1936).
Jorge Luis Borges is injured in an accident and develops blood poisoning in December. While recovering next year he will write the first short story in his later characteristic style.
Samuel Beckett\'s first completed novel Murphy is published.

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New books

Margery Allingham - The Fashion in Shrouds
Eric Ambler
- Cause for Alarm
- Epitaph for A Spy
Vladimir Bartol - Alamut
Elizabeth Bowen - The Death of the Heart
Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan and the Forbidden City
Taylor Caldwell - Dynasty of Death
John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson" - The Judas Window
John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson" - Death in Five Boxes
Peter Cheyney - Can Ladies Kill?
Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot\'s Christmas
René Daumal - A Night of Serious Drinking
Isak Dinesen - Out of Africa
John Dos Passos - U.S.A. trilogy
Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca
Lawrence Durrell - The Black Book
Rachel Field - All This and Heaven Too
Robert Graves - Count Belisarius
Graham Greene - Brighton Rock
Eric Knight - Lassie Come-Home
C. S. Lewis - Out of the Silent Planet
Henry Miller - Tropic of Capricorn
Vladimir Nabokov - Invitation to a Beheading
John O\'Hara - Hope of Heaven
Ellery Queen - The Devil To Pay
Ellery Queen - The Four of Hearts
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - The Yearling
Clayton Rawson - Death from a Top Hat
Emilio Lussu - Un anno sull\'altopiano
Ayn Rand - Anthem
Jean-Paul Sartre - La Nausée
Kate Seredy - The White Stag
Esphyr Slobodkina - Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business
Rex Stout - Too Many Cooks
B. Traven - The Bridge in The Jungle
S. S. Van Dine - The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Evelyn Waugh - Scoop
Nathanael West - The Day of the Locust
T. H. White - The Sword in the Stone
Gale Wilhelm - Torchlight to Valhalla
Virginia Woolf - Three Guineas

New drama

Jean Anouilh - Thieves\' Carnival (Le bal des voleurs)
Robert Ardrey - Casey Jones
Patrick Hamilton - Gas Light
Kaj Munk - Han sidder ved Smeltediglen
Robert E. Sherwood - Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Rodolfo Usigli - The Gesticulator
Thornton Wilder - Our Town
Emlyn Williams - The Corn is Green

Poetry

Alfred Kreymborg - The Planets: A Modern Allegory (radio play in verse)

Non-fiction

Hall Caine - Life of Christ - published post-humously
Cyril Connolly - Enemies of Promise
Geoffrey Faber - The Romance of a Bookshop 1904-1938
Robert McAlmon - Being Geniuses Together, 1920-1930
Thomas Mann - The Coming Victory of Democracy
George Orwell - Homage to Catalonia

Births

February 12 - Judy Blume, children\'s author
April 29 - Larry Niven, sci-fi author
May 13 - Norma Klein, author
July 19
- Nicholas Bethell, historian
- Dom Moraes, poet and columnist
October 12 - Anne Perry, historical novelist
October 13 - Hugo Young, journalist
December 14 - Leonardo Boff, philosopher and theologian
date unknown
- Christopher Booker, journalist and editor
- Charles L. Mee, dramatist
- M. K. Wren, novelist

Deaths

January 19 - Branislav Nušić, novelist and dramatist
March 1 - Gabriele D\'Annunzio, poet and novelist
April 19 - Sir Henry Newbolt, poet
April 21 - Lady Ottoline Morrell, literary hostess
May 26 - James Forbes, dramatist and screenwriter
June 26 - James Weldon Johnson
June 26 - E. V. Lucas, essayist and biographer
August 7 - Konstantin Stanislavski, theatre director
September 15 - Thomas Wolfe, novelist
December 25 - Karel Čapek, science fiction author and dramatist

Awards

Hawthornden Prize - David Jones for In Parenthesis
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: C. S. Forester, A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Sir Edmund Chambers, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Newbery Medal for children\'s literature: Kate Seredy, The White Stag
Newdigate prize: Michael Thwaites
Nobel Prize for literature: Pearl S. Buck
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Thornton Wilder, Our Town
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Marya Zaturenska: Cold Morning Sky
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: John Phillips Marquand - The Late George Apley

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