1929 in literature
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The year 1929 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[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. Twenty-one-year-old de Beauvoir becomes the youngest person ever to obtain the agrégation in philosophy, and comes second in the final exam, beaten only by Sartre.
- 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
- Henry Green - Living
- Julien Green - The Dark Journey
- Dashiell Hammett
- Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms
- Richard Hughes - A High Wind in Jamaica
- Erich Kästner - Emil und die Detektive
- Anna Kavan - A Charmed Circle
- Eric P. Kelly - The Trumpeter of Krakow
- Oliver La Farge - 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 - All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues)
- Elmer Rice - Street Scene
- 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
[edit] New drama
- Henri Bernstein - Mélo
- Bertolt Brecht - The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent
- 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
- Walter Lippmann - A Preface to Morals
- A. A. Milne - Those Were the Days
- Alice Prin - Kiki's Memoirs
- Various authors - Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress: essays in support of James Joyce
- E. B. White & James Thurber - Is Sex Necessary?
- Alfred North Whitehead - Process and Reality
- Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own
[edit] Births
- January 26 - Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist & writer
- February 17 - Chaim Potok, American author (d. 2002)
- February 18 - Len Deighton, British novelist
- April 1 - Milan Kundera, Czech-French novelist
- May 16 - Adrienne Rich, American poet and essayist
- June 11 - George Garrett, American poet & novelist (d. 2008)
- July 31 - Lynne Reid Banks, British author
- August 18 - Anatoly Kuznetsov, Russian dissident novelist (d. 1979)
- August 21 - X. J. Kennedy, American poet & translator
- August 27 - Ira Levin, American novelist & playwright (d. 2007)
- August 29 - Thom Gunn, Anglo-American poet (d. 2004)
- November - Steve Carter, American playwright
- November 13 - Theo Aronson, British biographer (d. 2003)
- December 12 - John Osborne, English playwright & screenwriter (d. 1994)
- December 16 - James Moore, Cornish author
- December 19 - Howard Sackler, American dramatist & screenwriter (d. 1982)
[edit] Deaths
- March 26 - Katharine Lee Bates, lyricist of "America the Beautiful" (b. 1859)
- April 16 - Sir John Morris-Jones, Welsh grammarian & poet (b. 1864)
- April 21 - Lucy Clifford, British novelist (b. 1846)
- June 8 - Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (b. 1861)
- June 22 - Alfred Brunswig, German philosopher (b. 1877)
- June 25 - Georges Courteline, French dramatist & novelist (b. 1858)
- July 15 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian novelist & poet (b. 1874)
- July 31 - José de Castro, Portuguese journalist (b. 1868)
- August - Mary MacLane, Canadian feminist writer (b. 1881)
- December 10 - Harry Crosby, American publisher and poet (b. 1898) (suicide)
- date unknown
- Max Lehmann, German historian (b. 1845)
- Hans Prutz, German historian (b. 1843)
- Grace Rhys, Irish novelist & poet (b. 1865)
- Dallas Lore Sharp, American nature writer (b. 1870)
[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
