1937 in literature
Overview of the events of 1937 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1937 .
Events
January 9 – The first issue of Look January 19 – BBC Television broadcasts The Underground Murder Mystery by J. Bissell Thomas from London, the first play to be written for television.[ 1] February 6 – John Steinbeck 's novella of the Great Depression , Of Mice and Men April – The Irish writers Elizabeth Bowen and Seán Ó Faoláin first meet, in London.
May 14 – BBC Television broadcasts a 30-minute excerpt of Twelfth Night Peggy Ashcroft and Greer Garson .May 21 – Penguin Books in the U.K. launches Pelican Books , a sixpenny paperback non-fiction imprint, with a two-volume edition of George Bernard Shaw 's The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism [ 2] June
June 30 – The New England Quarterly colonial American pastor, Edward Taylor (died 1729 ), discovered by Thomas H. Johnson.[ 4] Summer – American-born writer Thomas Quinn Curtiss meets German-born novelist Klaus Mann in Europe and they start a relationship.
July
July 4 – The Lost Colony Paul Green , is first performed at an outdoor theater in the place where it is set: Roanoke Island , North Carolina .July 31 – Stephen Vincent Benét 's post-apocalyptic short story By the Waters of Babylon Bombing of Guernica , is published in the U.S. The Saturday Evening Post September 10 – The Soviet playwright Sergei Tretyakov commits suicide while under sentence of death at Butyrka prison in Moscow as part of the Great Purge .[ 8] September 21 – J. R. R. Tolkien 's juvenile fantasy novel The Hobbit, or There and Back Again Rayner Unwin .September 29 – The French playwright Antonin Artaud is expelled from Ireland.October 6 – The fictional Mrs. Miniver appears in a column on domestic life by Jan Struther for The Times [ 9] November 11 (Armistice Day )
December 21 – Dr. Seuss 's first book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street Vanguard Press .unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 1 – John Fuller , English poetJanuary 7 – Ian La Frenais , English television comedy writerJanuary 8 – Leon Forrest , African-American novelist and essayist (died 1997 )January 9 – Judith Krantz , American novelist (died 2019 )January 13 – Jean D'Costa , Jamaican children's novelistJanuary 14 – J. Bernlef , born Hendrik Jan Marsman, Dutch poet, novelist and translator (died 2012 )January 22 – Joseph Wambaugh , American mystery novelist and non-fiction writerJanuary 23 – Juan Radrigán , Chilean playwright (died 2016 )February 11 – Maryse Condé , Guadeloupe historical fiction writerFebruary 20 – George Leonardos , Greek journalist and novelistFebruary 21 – Jilly Cooper , English novelist and journalistFebruary 27 – Peter Hamm , German poet, author, journalist, editor and literary critic (died 2019 )March 14 – Jan Karon (Janice Wilson), American novelist and children's writerMarch 15 – Valentin Rasputin , Russian writer (died 2015 )March 20 - Lois Lowry , American children's and young-adult writerApril 10 – Bella Akhmadulina , Russian poet (died 2010 )April 29 – Jill Paton Walsh (Gillian Bliss), English novelist (died 2020 )May 8 – Thomas Pynchon , American novelistMay 13
June 1 – Colleen McCullough , Australian novelist (died 2015 )June 16 – Erich Segal , American novelist (died 2010 )July 3 – Tom Stoppard (Tomáš Straussler), Czech-born English dramatist[ 17] July 6 – Bessie Head , South African-born Botswanan fiction writer (died 1986 )August 3 – Peter van Gestel , Dutch writer (died 2019 )August 5 – Carla Lane (Romana Barrack), English comedy writer (died 2016 )August 19
September 5 – Dick Clement , English television comedy writerOctober 4 – Jackie Collins , English-born romance novelist (died 2015 )October 7 – Christopher Booker , English journalist and editor (died 2019 )November 9
November 17 – Peter Cook , English comedian, satirist and writer (died 1995 )December 11 – Jim Harrison , American novelist and poet (died 2016 )December 22
unknown date – Parijat (Bishnu Kumari Waiba), Nepalese novelist and poet (died 1993 )
Deaths
January 5 – Alberto de Oliveira , Brazilian poet (born 1857 )[ 19] January 11 – Emma A. Cranmer , American author, reformer, suffragist (born 1858 )February 19
March 7 – Tomas O'Crohan , Irish Gaelic writer and fisherman (born 1856 )[ 22] March 8 – Albert Verwey , Dutch poet (born 1865 )[ 23] March 15 – H. P. Lovecraft , American horror writer (intestinal cancer, born 1890 )[ 24] March 25 – John Drinkwater , English poet and dramatist (born 1882 )[ 25] May 20 – Frederic Taber Cooper , American editor and writer (born 1864 )[ 26] June 4 – W. F. Harvey , English horror-story writer (born 1885 )June 13 – William F. Lloyd , English-born Newfoundland journalist and prime minister (born 1864 )June 19 – J. M. Barrie , Scottish novelist and dramatist (born 1860 )June 22 – Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo , Malagasy poet (suicide, born 1901 or 1903)July 18 – Julian Bell , English poet (killed in Spanish Civil War, born 1908 )July 29 — Ella Maria Ballou , American writer (born 1852 )August 11 – Edith Wharton (Edith Newbold Jones), American novelist and short-story writer (born 1862 )August 14 – H. C. McNeile (Sapper), English novelist and soldier (born 1888 )September 13 – Ellis Parker Butler , American humorist, novelist and essayist (born 1869 )October 13 – Dmitrii Milev , Soviet Moldovan shorty story writer and critic (shot, born 1887 )October 15 – Samuil Lehtțir , Soviet Moldovan poet, critic and literary theorist (shot, born 1901 )October 16 – Jean de Brunhoff , French children's author and illustrator (born 1899 )November 3 – Mykola Kulish , Ukrainian writer (shot with many other Ukrainian intellectuals at Sandarmokh , born 1892 )[ 27] November 3 – Mykola Zerov , Ukrainian poet, translator, classical and literary scholar and critic (shot at Sandarmokh, born 1890 )[ 28] November 3 – Valerian Pidmohylny , Ukrainian writer, (shot at Sandarmokh, born 1901 )[ 29] November 3 – Hryhorii Epik , Ukrainian writer and journalist (shot at Sandarmokh, born 1901 )[ 30] November 3 – Myroslav Irchan , Ukrainian storywriter and playwright (shot at Sandarmokh, born 1897 )[ 31] October 17 – Florence Dugdale , English children's writer, widow of Thomas Hardy (cancer, born 1879 )[ 32] October 22 – Chūya Nakahara (中原 中也), Japanese poet (meningitis, born 1907 )October 31 – Ralph Connor , Canadian novelist (born 1860 )c. December – Filimon Săteanu , Soviet Moldovan poet (shot, born 1907 )
December 9 – Frances Nimmo Greene , American novelist, short story writer, children's writer, playwright (born 1867 )December 24 – Elizabeth Haldane , Scottish author, philosopher and suffragist (born 1862 )December 26
Awards
References
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