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The year 1942 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

Events

André Gide leaves France to live in Tunis.
Robertson Davies becomes editor of the Peterborough Examiner.
Thomas Mann emigrates to California.
James Hilton wins an Oscar for the screenplay of Mrs. Miniver.
The New York Times launches influential New York Times Best Seller list.

New fiction books

Samuel Hopkins Adams - The Harvey Girls
Henry Bellamann - Floods of Spring
Earl Birney - David
Jean Bruller - Le Silence de la mer
Taylor Caldwell - The Strong City
Albert Camus - The Stranger (L\'Étranger)
John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson" - The Gilded Man
Joyce Cary - To Be a Pilgrim
Raymond Chandler - The High Window
Agatha Christie - Five Little Pigs
Lloyd C. Douglas - The Robe
Daphne du Maurier - Frenchman\'s Creek
Rachel Field - And Now Tomorrow
Robert A. Heinlein - Beyond This Horizon
Kalki Krishnamurthy - Parthiban Kanavu
C. S. Lewis - The Screwtape Letters
Janette Sebring Lowrey - The Poky Little Puppy
Beryl Markham - West with the Night
Robert Musil - The Man Without Qualities
Annie Greene Nelson - After The Storm
Ellery Queen - Calamity Town
Raymond Queneau - Pierrot mon ami
Clayton Rawson - No Coffin for the Corpse
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - Cross Creek
Nevil Shute - Pied Piper
Curt Siodmak - Donovan\'s Brain
Clark Ashton Smith - Out of Space and Time
Rex Stout - Black Orchids
Evelyn Waugh - Put Out More Flags
Rebecca West - Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Cornell Woolrich - Black Alibi

New drama

Jean Anouilh - Antigone
Kaj Munk - Niels Ebbesen
Eugene O\'Neill - A Touch of the Poet - (not performed until 1958)

Poetry

T. S. Eliot - Little Gidding

Non-fiction

Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus (Le Mythe de Sisyphe)
Edith Hamilton - Mythology
Aldous Huxley - The Art of Seeing
C. S. Lewis - A Preface to Paradise Lost
Elliot Paul - The Last Time I Saw Paris
Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. - Picketing Hell
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - Flight to Arras

Births

January 31 - Derek Jarman, director, writer (+ 1994)
February 1 - Terry Jones, comedian and writer
March 2 - John Irving, novelist
April 1 - Samuel R. Delany, novelist and critic
April 4 - Kitty Kelley, journalist and biographer
April 6 - Barry Levinson, screenwriter, director and producer
August 2 - Isabel Allende, novelist
August 7 - Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days author
October 23 - Michael Crichton, author
October 23 - Douglas Dunn, poet
December 6 - Peter Handke, Austrian novelist
date unknown - Gladys Cardiff, poet
date unknown - Craig Thomas, novelist

Deaths

April 24 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables novelist
May 26 - Libero Bovio, Neapolitan dialect poet
June 30 - Léon Daudet, journalist
July 20 - Moses Annenberg, publisher
September 19 - Condé Nast, magazine publisher
September 26 - Oskar Kraus, philosopher
October 14 - Cosmo Hamilton, dramatist and novelist
October 20 - Friedrich Münzer, classical scholar
date unknown - Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson, Greyfriars Bobby author
date unknown - Konstantin Balmont, poet

Awards

Carnegie Medal: Denys Watkins-Pitchford
Frost Medal: Edgar Lee Masters
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Arthur Waley, Translation of Monkey by Wu Cheng\'en
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede, Henry Ponsonby: Queen Victoria\'s Private Secretary
Newbery Medal for children\'s literature: Walter D. Edmonds, The Matchlock Gun
Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: not awarded
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William Rose Benet, The Dust Which Is God
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

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