1931 in literature 1931 .Events January 10 – A rare copy of Edgar Allan Poe's Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Other Poems and first editions of The Scarlet Letter and Moby-Dick are stolen from New York Public Library by Samuel Dupree, on behalf of a crooked New York antiquarian book dealer, Harry Gold. January 26 – The play Green Grow the Lilacs , by a Cherokee playwright, Lynn Riggs , opens on Broadway . It is later adapted as Oklahoma! by Rodgers and Hammerstein . March 27 – The English writer Arnold Bennett dies of typhoid in London, shortly after a visit to Paris, where he drank local water in an attempt to prove it was safe. April 11 – Gerald Brenan and Gamel Woolsey make a form of marriage in Rome. June 1 – The Near v. Minnesota case in the Supreme Court of the United States affirms the principle that prior restraint is unconstitutional. July 4 – James Joyce marries his long-time partner Nora Barnacle at Kensington register office in London. October 4 – The Dick Tracy comic strip first appears, created by cartoonist Chester Gould . October 5 – The first U.K. performance of Oscar Wilde's tragedy Salome is given at the Savoy Theatre , London, with Nancy Price as producer and as Herodias, and her daughter Joan Maude in the title role. November – Federico García Lorca is appointed by the leftist Second Spanish Republic as director of a touring theatre company, Teatro Universitario La Barraca , charged with taking a portable stage into rural areas to introduce audiences to classical Spanish theatre without charge. unknown dates The publisher Hamish Hamilton is founded by Jamie Hamilton in London. *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is banned in Hunan, China , for anthropomorphism . *The Marquis de Sade's The 120 Days of Sodom , written in 1785 , has its first publication in a scholarly edition as a literary text.New books Fiction Shmuel Yosef Agnon – The Bridal Canopy Margery Allingham – Police at the Funeral Roberto Arlt – Los lanzallamas E. F. Benson – Mapp and Lucia Arna Bontemps – God Sends Sunday Pearl S. Buck – The Good Earth Morley Callaghan – No Man's Meat Nellie Campobello – Cartucho John Dickson Carr *Castle Skull *The Lost Gallows Willa Cather – Shadows on the Rock Sigurd Christiansen – To levende og en død Agatha Christie – The Sittaford Mystery Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth – The Cat Who Went to Heaven N. D. Cocea – Vinul de viață lungă A. J. Cronin – Hatter's Castle E. E. Cummings – CIOPW Sergiu Dan – Dragoste și moarte în provincie Detection Club – The Floating Admiral Pierre Drieu La Rochelle – Will O' the Wisp Lord Dunsany – The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens William Faulkner *Sanctuary *These 13 Jessie Redmon Fauset – The Chinaberry Tree Carlo Emilio Gadda – La madonna dei filosofi Emma Goldman – Living My Life Caroline Gordon – Penhally Dashiell Hammett – The Glass Key James Hanley – Boy Serge-Simon Held – La Mort du fer Harold Heslop – Red Earth Georgette Heyer – The Conqueror Robert Hichens – The First Lady Brendon James Hilton – Murder at School Knud Holmboe – Desert Encounter Fannie Hurst – Back Street Francis Iles – Malice Aforethought Carolyn Keene – The Secret of Shadow Ranch Irmgard Keun – Gilgi – eine von uns Halldór Laxness – Salka Valka, pt I: Þú vínviður hreini Marie Belloc Lowndes – Letty Lynton Compton Mackenzie * Buttercups and Daisies * Our Street W. Somerset Maugham – Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular Pierre Mac Orlan – La Bandera Nancy Mitford – Highland Fling Thomas Mofolo – Chaka Leopold Myers – Prince Jali Ilf and Petrov – The Little Golden Calf Andrei Platonov – The Foundation Pit Anthony Powell – Afternoon Men Ellery Queen – The Dutch Shoe Mystery Erich Remarque – The Road Back E. Arnot Robertson – Four Frightened People Sax Rohmer - Daughter of Fu Manchu Rafael Sabatini – Captain Blood Returns Vita Sackville-West – All Passion Spent John Monk Saunders – Single Lady Dorothy Sayers – Five Red Herrings George S. Schuyler – Black No More Nevil Shute – Lonely Road Georges Simenon – Pietr-le-Letton Upton Sinclair – Roman Holiday Thomas Sigismund Stribling – The Forge Eleanor Smith – Flamenco Phoebe Atwood Taylor – The Cape Cod Mystery Sigrid Undset – Wild Orchid Edgar Wallace – The Man at the Carlton Hugh Walpole – Judith Paris Nathanael West – The Dream Life of Balso Snell Virginia Woolf – The Waves P. G. Wodehouse *Big Money *If I Were You''Children and young people Jean de Brunhoff – Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant John Buchan – The Blanket of the Dark Edgar Rice Burroughs *A Fighting Man of Mars *Tarzan the Invincible Erich Kästner – The 35th of May, or Conrad's Ride to the South Seas Arthur Ransome – Swallowdale Ruth Plumly Thompson – Pirates in Oz Drama Clifford Bax – The Venetian Charles Bennett – Sensation Chen Liting – Put Down Your Whip Noël Coward – Post-Mortem Federico García Lorca – When Five Years Pass Jean Giraudoux – Judith Ian Hay *Mr Faint-Heart *The Midshipmaid Edward Knoblock – Grand Hotel Eugene O'Neill – Mourning Becomes Electra Marcel Pagnol – Fanny J. B. Priestley and Edward Knoblock – The Good Companions Ahmed Shawqi – Qambeez Dodie Smith – Autumn Crocus Gladys Bronwyn Stern – The Man Who Pays The Piper John Van Druten *Hollywood Holiday *London Wall *Sea Fever *There's Always Juliet Ödön von Horváth – Tales from the Vienna Woods Edgar Wallace – The Old Man Thornton Wilder – The Long Christmas Dinner Carl Zuckmayer – The Captain of Köpenick Non-fiction Samuel Beckett – Proust Adrian Bell – Silver Ley Marc Bloch – Les Caractères originaux de l'histoire rurale française Arthur Bryant – King Charles the Second Herbert Butterfield – The Whig Interpretation of History W. Chapman and V. C. A. Ferraro – A New Theory of Magnetic Storms Ali Akbar Dehkhoda et al. – Dehkhoda Dictionary of the Persian language Julius Evola – The Hermetic Tradition Dion Fortune – Spiritualism in the Light of Occult Science John Middleton Murry – Son of Woman: The Story of D. H. Lawrence Irma S. Rombauer – The Joy of Cooking Helen Thomas – World Without End Births January 6 *E. L. Doctorow, American author *P. J. Kavanagh, English poet, novelist, and broadcaster January 9 – Algis Budrys , Lithuanian-American science fiction author January 10 – Peter Barnes , English playwright January 17 – Mark Brandis , German journalist and science fiction author January 24 – Leonard Baker , American historian and Pulitzer-winning author January 27 *Allan W. Eckert, American historian and novelist *Shirley Hazzard, Australian author *John Hopkins, English screenwriter *Mordecai Richler, Canadian author February 9 – Thomas Bernhard , Dutch-born Austrian author February 11 – Larry Merchant , American author and boxing commentator February 12 – Janwillem van de Wetering , Dutch-American crime writer February 18 *Johnny Hart, American cartoonist *Toni Morrison, American writer and Nobel Prize winner February 19 – Robert Sobel , American business writer March 2 – Tom Wolfe , American novelist March 16 – Augusto Boal , Brazilian theater director and writer March 22 – Leslie Thomas , Welsh novelist March 26 – Alison Prince , English-born Scottish children's writer and biographer April 1 – Rolf Hochhuth , German dramatist April 15 – Tomas Tranströmer , Swedish poet and translator April 21 – Gabriel de Broglie , French historian April 29 – Robert Gottlieb , American editor May 2 – Ruth Fainlight , American-born poet, short story writer , translator and librettist June 12 – Robin Cook , English crime novelist June 21 – Patricia Goedicke , American poet July 4 – Sébastien Japrisot , French novelist and screenwriter July 7 – David Eddings , American novelist July 10 *Nick Adams, American screenwriter *Julian May, American science fiction author *Alice Munro, Canadian short story writer July 15 – Clive Cussler , American thriller writer and underwater explorer August 2 – Karl Miller , British writer and literary editor August 12 – William Goldman , American novelist and screenwriter August 14 – Frederic Raphael , American-born English screenwriter, novelist and non-fiction author August 16 – Marion Patrick Jones , Trinidadian writer September 14 – Ivan Klíma , Czech novelist and dramatist September 15 – Kalim Siddiqui , Pakistani-born British writer and Islamic activist September 22 *Ashokamitran, Indian fiction writer *Fay Weldon, English novelist October 8 – Dennis Silk , American-born English writer on literature and cricket, and first-class cricketer October 13 – Janice Elliott , English novelist and children's writer October 19 – John le Carré , English spy novelist November 3 – Arun Sarma , Assamese playwright and novelist November 18 – Nikoloz Janashia , Georgian historian November 28 – Tomi Ungerer , Alsatian illustrator and writerDeaths January 12 – Henry Gauthier-Villars , French writer January 26 – Graça Aranha , Brazilian diplomat and writer March 27 – Arnold Bennett, English novelist April 4 – André Michelin , French originator of Michelin Guides April 10 – Khalil Gibran , Lebanese-born American poet June 29 – Nérée Beauchemin , French-Canadian poet July 2 – Harald Høffding , Danish philosopher August 1 – Bertha McNamara , German-born Australian pamphleteer and bookseller August 15 – Delfín Chamorro , Spanish poet and language teacher August 27 – Frank Harris , Irish-born American author and editor August 31 – Hall Caine , Manx novelist and dramatist September 9 – Matilda Cugler-Poni , Romanian poet October 13 – Ernst Didring , Swedish novelist October 21 – Arthur Schnitzler , Austrian dramatist October 27 – Lucas Malet , English novelist November 3 – Juan Zorrilla de San Martín , Uruguayan epic poet November 5 – Ole Edvart Rolvaag , Norwegian American writer November 19 – Xu Zhimo , Chinese poet December 10 – Enrico Corradini , Italian novelist, essayist and journalist December 26 – Melvil Dewey , American inventor of library classification system December 27 – Alfred Perceval Graves , Irish author and collector of songs and ballads December 31 – Ieronim Yasinsky , Russian writer, poet and essayist (born 1850 Awards Chancellor's Gold Medal: Robert Gittings James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Kate O'Brien , Without My Cloak James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: J. Y. R. Greig, David Hume Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth Coatsworth , The Cat Who Went to Heaven Nobel Prize in literature – Erik Axel Karlfeldt Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Susan Glaspell , Alison's House Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Frost , Collected Poems Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Margaret Ayer Barnes , Years of Grace
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