1950 in literature
See also: 1949 in literature,
other events of 1950,
1951 in literature,
list of years in literature.
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Events
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\n*Across the River and into the Trees - Ernest Hemingway\n*The Adventurer - Mika Waltari\n*Beetlecreek - William Demby\n*Cabbagetown - Hugh Garner\n*The Cardinal - Henry Morton Robinson \n*The Child Who Never Grew - Pearl S. Buck\n*The Disenchanted - Budd Schulberg\n*The Door in the Wall - Marguerite de Angeli\n*Floodtide - Frank Yerby\n*Florence Nightingale - Cecil Woodham-Smith\n*The Grass Is Singing - Doris Lessing \n*I, Robot - Isaac Asimov\n*Joy Street - Frances Parkinson Keyes\n*Jubilee Trail - Gwen Bristow\n*Kon-Tiki - Thor Heyerdahl\n*The Liberal Imagination - Lionel Trilling\n*The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis\n*The Little World of Don Camillo - Giovanni Guareschi\n*Parade's End - Ford Madox Ford\n*The Parasites - Daphne du Maurier\n*Reading and Criticism - Raymond Williams\n*Star Money - Kathleen Winsor\n*Summer In The Country - Edith Templeton\n*The Wall - John Hersey
\nBirths
Deaths
\n* January 21 - George Orwell, writer\n* March 19 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, author\n* George Bernard Shaw\n* Johannes Vilhelm Jensen - Danish writer, Nobel prize winner.
Awards
\n* Newbery Medal for children's literature: Marguerite de Angeli, The Door in the Wall\n* Nobel Prize for Literature: Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell\n* Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan, South Pacific\n* Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: A. B. Guthrie, Jr, The Way West\n* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Gwendolyn Brooks, Annie Allen
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