1932 in literature

See also: 1931 in literature, other events of 1932, 1933 in literature, list of years in literature.

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is published. In 2001, the book would be one of two books by Huxley to be on the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

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New Books

\n*1919 - John Dos Passos\n*Black Mischief - Evelyn Waugh \n*Brave New World - Aldous Huxley\n*A Broken Journey - Morley Callaghan\n*Burning Bush - Sigrid Undset \n*Christmas Pudding - Nancy Mitford\n*The Conjure Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem - Rudolph Fisher \n*The Fortress - Hugh Walpole\n*Guys and Dolls - Damon Runyon\n*Infants Of The Spring - Wallace Thurman\n*Josephus - Lion Feuchtwanger \n*Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Céline \n*Le Pur et L'Impur - Colette \n*Light in August - William Faulkner\n*Mutiny on the Bounty - Charles Norman Hall\n*The Richest Woman in Town - Henry Bellamann\n*Selected Essays, 1917-1932 - T. S. Eliot\n*The Sheltered Life - Ellen Glasgow\n*The Son Avenger - Sigrid Undset \n*Sons - Pearl S. Buck\n*Tobacco Road - Erskine Caldwell\n*Waterless Mountain - Laura Adams Armer \n

Births

\n* January 18 - Robert Anton Wilson, author\n* February 7 - Gay Talese, author\n* October 27 - Sylvia Plath, poet

Deaths

Awards

\n* Newbery Medal for children's literature: Laura Adams Armer, Waterless Mountain\n* Nobel Prize for literature: John Galsworthy\n* Pulitzer Prize for Drama: George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Ira Gershwin, Of Thee I Sing\n* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: George Dillon: The Flowering Stone\n* Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Pearl S. Buck: The Good Earth *