1931 in literature

none thumb | right | alt=Tales from the Vienna Woods by Ödön von Horváth. Program notes from the 1931 world premiere. | Tales from the Vienna Woods by Ödön von Horváth. Program notes from the 1931 world premiere. 1931 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 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.Thieves of Book Row: New York's Most Notorious Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped It Travis McDade New York Oxford University Press 2013 9780199922666 registration https://archive.org/details/thievesofbookrow0000mcda January 26 – The play Green Grow the Lilacs by Cherokee playwright Lynn Riggs, opens on Broadway. It is later adapted as Oklahoma! by Rodgers and Hammerstein.Lynn Riggs: An Oklahoma Treasure https://web.archive.org/web/20111004150007/http://www.okfriends.net/riggs.htm 2011-10-04 , Friends of Libraries in Oklahoma https://web.archive.org/web/20111004150025/http://www.okfriends.net/index.htm 2011-10-04 . March 27 – The English novelist 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.1959 Straw for Silence The Spectator 203 0038-6952 F. C. Westley "In a Paris hotel he drank ordinary water from a carafe. The waiter protested, 'Ah, ce n'est pas sage, Monsieur, ce n'est pas sage....'" 1766325 April 11 – Gerald Brenan and Gamel Woolsey make a form of marriage in Rome.Justin Glenn The Washingtons: A Family History: Volume 5 (Part One): Generation Nine of the Presidential Branch https://books.google.com/books?id=WQNtBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA516 5 September 2014 Savas Publishing 978-1-940669-30-4 516 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.I Like 'Em Tough Jim Doherty 2009 http://www.mystericale.com/index.php?issue=072&body=file&file=like_em_tough.htm/ ME October 5 – The first U.K. performance of Oscar Wilde's tragedy Salome (1891) is given at the Savoy Theatre, London, with Nancy Price as producer and as Herodias, and her daughter Joan Maude in the title role.Ellis Samantha https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2003/mar/26/theatre.samanthaellis Salomé, Savoy Theatre, October 1931 The Guardian London 2003-03-26 2013-02-22 November – Federico García Lorca is appointed by the leftist Second Spanish Republic as director of a touring theatre company, Teatro Universitario La Barraca (The Shack), charged with taking a portable stage into rural areas to introduce audiences to classical Spanish theatre without charge.Lisa Jackson-Schebetta Traveler, There Is No Road: Theatre, the Spanish Civil War, and the Decolonial Imagination in the Americas https://books.google.com/books?id=5a6hDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA86 15 June 2017 University of Iowa Press 978-1-60938-490-6 86 unknown dates The publisher Hamish Hamilton is founded by Jamie Hamilton in London.Clegg's International Directory of the World's Book Trade https://books.google.com/books?id=V0W7AAAAIAAJ 1950 445 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is banned in Hunan, China, for anthropomorphism.Topics of the Times The New York Times 1931-05-05 26 The Marquis de Sade's The 120 Days of Sodom (Les 120 Journées de Sodome), written in 1785, has its first publication in a scholarly edition as a literary text. New books Fiction Shmuel Yosef Agnon – The Bridal Canopy Dov Nitza Agnon's art of indirection : uncovering latent content in the fiction of S.Y. Agnon E.J. Brill Leiden New York 1993 9789004098633 6 Margery Allingham – Police at the FuneralCatalog of Copyright Entries. New Series: 1932 Copyright Office, Library of Congress 1932 216 Roberto Arlt – Los lanzallamas (The Flame-Throwers)Journal of Spanish Studies: twentieth century Department of Modern Languages, Kansas State University 1977 192 E. F. Benson – Mapp and Lucia Stringer Jenny The Oxford companion to twentieth-century literature in English Oxford University Press Oxford New York 1996 9780192122711 59 Theodora Benson – Which Way?Benson Theodora https://books.google.com/books?id=bUB_zgEACAAJ Which Way? 2022 British Library 978-0-7123-5398-4 London Arna Bontemps – God Sends SundayRobert E. Fleming https://www.anb.org/articles/16/16-01895.html Bontemps, Arna Wendell American National Biography Online February 2000 October 15, 2024 Pearl S. Buck – The Good EarthPearl S. Buck's The Good Earth at a Glance http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahsbookclub/goodearth/good_novel_synopsis https://web.archive.org/web/20081021075059/http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahsbookclub/goodearth/good_novel_synopsis 2008-10-21 Oprah.com Nellie Campobello – Cartucho John Dickson Carr – Castle Skull Willa Cather – Shadows on the Rock Sigurd Christiansen – To levende og en dødHarald S. N•ss A History of Norwegian Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=blSyHYFvj8YC&pg=PA261 1 January 1993 U of Nebraska Press 0-8032-3317-5 261 Agatha Christie – The Sittaford Mystery N. D. Cocea – Vinul de viață lungăAlexandru Piru Istoria literaturii române https://books.google.com/books?id=-tPhAAAAMAAJ 1994 Editura "Grai și Suflet - Cultura națională" 978-973-95573-4-4 268 ro J.J. Connington The Boathouse Riddle The Sweepstake Murders Freeman Wills Crofts – Mystery in the Channel A. J. Cronin – Hatter's Castle E. E. Cummings – CIOPW Sergiu Dan – Dragoste și moarte în provincie Clemence Dane – Broome Stages Detection Club – The Floating Admiral Pierre Drieu La Rochelle – Will O' the Wisp Lord Dunsany – The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens Joseph Jefferson Farjeon – The House Opposite William Faulkner Sanctuary These 13 Carlo Emilio Gadda – La madonna dei filosofiGaetana Marrone Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J Routledge 2007 798 Anthony Gilbert – The Case Against Andrew Fane Maxim Gorky – The Life of Klim Samgin (Жизнь Клима Самгина, Zhizn' Klima Samgina; third volume, translated as Other Fires) Dashiell Hammett – The Glass Key James Hanley – Boy Serge-Simon Held – La Mort du fer (The Death of Iron)Neil Barron Anatomy of Wonder: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction https://books.google.com/books?id=qVHgAAAAMAAJ 1987 Bowker 978-0-8352-2312-6 56 Georgette Heyer – The ConquerorLynda G. Adamson World Historical Fiction: An Annotated Guide to Novels for Adults and Young Adults https://books.google.com/books?id=DX30otY9RZ8C&pg=PA154 1999 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-1-57356-066-5 154 Robert Hichens – The First Lady Brendon James Hilton (published under the name "Glen Trevor") – Murder at SchoolGeorge Watson Ian R. Willison The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=9e48AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA603 1972 CUP Archive 603 Knud Holmboe – Desert EncounterKrystyna Clara Von Henneberg The Construction of Fascist Libya: Modern Colonial Architecture and Urban Planning in Italian North Africa (1922-1943) https://books.google.com/books?id=BRJNAQAAMAAJ 1996 University of California, Berkeley 58 E. M. Hull – The Captive of the Sahara Fannie Hurst – Back Street Francis Iles – Malice AforethoughtH. R. F. Keating H. R. F. Keating Whodunit? – a guide to crime, suspense and spy fiction London Windward 1982 0-7112-0249-4 Carolyn Keene – The Secret of Shadow RanchBernard Alger Drew The 100 Most Popular Young Adult Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies https://books.google.com/books?id=_ubHYRVKquEC&pg=PA187 1997 Libraries Unlimited 978-1-56308-615-1 187 Margaret Kennedy – Return I Dare Not Irmgard Keun – Gilgi – eine von uns (Gilgi – One of Us)Elke P. Frederiksen Martha Kaarsberg Wallach Facing Fascism and Confronting the Past: German Women Writers from Weimar to the Present https://books.google.com/books?id=CU21LvvBqooC&pg=PA42 8 June 2000 SUNY Press 978-0-7914-4579-2 42 Halldór Laxness – is Salka Valka, pt I: Þú vínviður hreini (O Thou Pure Vine) E. C. R. Lorac – The Murder on the Burrows 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 E. Phillips Oppenheim – Up the Ladder of Gold Ilf and Petrov – The Little Golden Calf (Золотой телёнок, Zolotoy telyonok) Andrei Platonov – The Foundation Pit (Котлован, Kotlovan, written) Bullock Philip The feminine in the prose of Andrey Platonov Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis Boca Raton, FL 2017 9781351197540 22 Anthony Powell – Afternoon Men Ellery Queen – The Dutch Shoe Mystery Erich Remarque – The Road Back Jean Rhys – After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie E. Arnot Robertson – Four Frightened People Sax Rohmer - Daughter of Fu Manchu Rafael Sabatini – Captain Blood Returns Vita Sackville-West – All Passion SpentSybil Oldfield This Working-Day World: Women's Lives And Culture(s) In Britain, 1914-1945 Taylor & Francis 1994 9780748401086 278 Dorothy Sayers – The Five Red HerringsCatherine Kenney The Remarkable Case of Dorothy L. Sayers https://books.google.com/books?id=w9DiArv98MQC&pg=PA50 15 June 1991 Kent State University Press 978-0-87338-458-2 50 George S. Schuyler – Black No More Nevil Shute – Lonely Road Georges Simenon – Pietr-le-Letton (book format) Upton Sinclair – Roman Holiday Eleanor Smith – Flamenco Stanislas-André Steeman — The Six Dead Men Cecil Street – Tragedy on the Line Phoebe Atwood Taylor – The Cape Cod Mystery Henry Wade – No Friendly Drop Edgar Wallace – The Man at the Carlton Nathanael West – The Dream Life of Balso Snell Ethel Lina White – Put Out the Light Virginia Woolf – The Waves P. G. 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H. Lawrence Irma S. Rombauer – Joy of Cooking Edmund Wilson – Axel's Castle Births January 4 – José Triana, Cuban poet (d. 2018)Àlvarez Johanna A. Muere en París el poeta y dramaturgo cubano José Triana http://www.elnuevoherald.com/noticias/mundo/america-latina/cuba-es/article203473809.html 8 March 2018 El Nuevo Herald 4 March 2018 es January 6 E. L. Doctorow, American author (died 2015)Joel Shatzky Michael Taub Emmanuel Sampath Nelson Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-critical Sourcebook https://books.google.com/books?id=X3HN2tYhR0cC&pg=PA54 1997 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-29462-4 54 P. J. Kavanagh, English poet, novelist, and broadcaster (died 2015) January 9 – Algis Budrys, Lithuanian-American science fiction author (died 2008)L. Ron Hubbard L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 24: The Best New Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year https://books.google.com/books?id=LypJ4AjuNj4C&pg=PA1 8 September 2008 Galaxy Press LLC 978-1-59212-264-6 1 January 10 – Peter Barnes, English playwright (died 2004)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/peter-barnes-6166201.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/peter-barnes-6166201.html 2022-05-01 subscription live Peter Barnes: Surprising and adventurous dramatist The Independent 5 July 2004 5 September 2014 Strachan, Alan January 17 – Mark Brandis (Nikolai von Michalewsky), German journalist and science fiction author (died 2000) January 20 – Sawako Ariyoshi, Japanese novelist (died 1984)https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ariyoshi-Sawako Ariyoshi Sawako, Japanese author Encyclopedia Britannica 2018-02-01 en January 24 – Leonard Baker, American historian and Pulitzer-winning author (died 1984)Elizabeth A. Brennan Elizabeth C. Clarage Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&pg=PA41 1999 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-1-57356-111-2 41 January 27 Allan W. Eckert, American historian and novelist (died 2011)Something about the Author https://books.google.com/books?id=-LtkAAAAMAAJ June 1982 Gale Research 978-0-8103-0083-5 86 Shirley Hazzard, Australian author (died 2016)Brigitta Olubas Shirley Hazzard: New Critical Essays https://books.google.com/books?id=N6d1BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA123 8 October 2014 Sydney University Press 978-1-74332-410-3 123 John Hopkins, English screenwriter (died 1998) Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (died 2001)Reinhold Kramer Mordecai Richler: Leaving St Urbain https://books.google.com/books?id=pEZAhyjZPQkC&pg=PA19 20 March 2008 McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP 978-0-7735-7477-9 19 February 2 – Walter Burkert, German writer (died 2015)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/walter-burkert-classical-scholar-whose-fascinating-books-greek-mythology-and-religion-were-packed-fresh-insight-10287963.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/walter-burkert-classical-scholar-whose-fascinating-books-greek-mythology-and-religion-were-packed-fresh-insight-10287963.html 2022-05-01 subscription live Walter Burkert: Classical scholar whose fascinating books on Greek mythology and religion were packed with fresh insight 31 May 2015 Robert Parker The Independent April 3, 2021 February 6 – Mamie Van Doren, American actress and writer1940 United States Census 1940 Sioux City, Iowa 480 13 97-61B February 13, 2014 February 9 – Thomas Bernhard, Dutch-born Austrian author (died 1989) February 11 – Larry Merchant, American author and boxing commentator February 12 – Janwillem van de Wetering, Dutch-American crime writer (died 2008)https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/oct/14/netherlands Janwillem van de Wetering October 14, 2008 The Guardian Christopher Hawtree September 10, 2021 February 18 Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (died 2007) Toni Morrison, American writer and Nobel Prize winner (died 2019)Obituary: Toni Morrison https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27635463 BBC News 6 August 2019 6 August 2019 February 19 – Robert Sobel, American business writer (died 1999) February 24 – Barry Oakley, Australian writer. March 11 Janosch, German children's author and illustrator Contemporary authors. New Revision series Gale Research Detroit, Mich 1981 9780810319929 123 Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born publisher March 16 – Augusto Boal, Brazilian theater director and writer (died 2009) March 22 – Leslie Thomas, Welsh novelist (died 2014)https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10814267/Leslie-Thomas-obituary.html Leslie Thomas Daily Telegraph May 7, 2014 March 26 – Alison Prince, English-born Scottish children's writer and biographer (died 2019) April 1 – Rolf Hochhuth, German dramatist (died 2020)https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/may/25/rolf-hochhuth-obituary Rolf Hochhuth Obituary May 25, 2020 Michael Coveney The Guardian October 28, 2021 April 2 – Joseph Joffo, French author (died 2018) April 12 – Chico Anysio, Brazilian actor, comedian, writer and composer (died 2012) April 15 – Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet and translator (died 2015)Brown Andrew Swedish Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer dies aged 83 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/27/swedish-poet-thomas-transtromer-dies-age-83 28 March 2015 The Guardian 26 March 2015 April 21 – Gabriel de Broglie, French historian April 29 – Robert Gottlieb, American editor (died 2023) May 2 – Ruth Fainlight, American-born poet, short story writer, translator and librettistContemporary Poets Tracy Chevalier St. James Press 1991 288 May 7 – Gene Wolfe, American science fiction and fantasy writer (died 2019)https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/29/gene-wolfe-obituary Gene Wolfe Obituary April 29, 2019 John Clute The Guardian October 28, 2021 May 23 – Barbara Barrie, American actress and writer June 12 – Robin Cook (Derek Raymond), English crime novelist (died 1994) June 21 – Patricia Goedicke, American poet (died 2006)Contemporary Poets Tracy Chevalier St. James Press 1991 350 June 26 – Colin Wilson, British novelist and philosopher (died 2013)Colin Wilson: Author (Obituary) https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/colin-wilson-author-8991678.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/colin-wilson-author-8991678.html 2022-05-01 subscription live The Independent Marcus Williamson Williamson Marcus 8 December 2013 17 January 2014 June 28 – Hans Alfredson, Swedish actor and writer and comedian (d. 2017)http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/a/d30wz/hans-alfredson-ar-dod Aftonbladet Hans Alfredson är död Torbjörn Ek 10 September 2017 10 September 2017 sv July 4 – Sébastien Japrisot, French novelist and screenwriter (died 2003) July 6 – Emily Nasrallah, Lebanese writer and women's rights activist (died 2018)https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/obituaries/emily-nasrallah-dead.html Emily Nasrallah, Lebanese Novelist and Activist, Dies at 86 Sam Roberts 16 March 2018 The New York Times 19 March 2018 https://archive.today/20180319084128/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/obituaries/emily-nasrallah-dead.html 19 March 2018 live July 7 – David Eddings, American novelist (died 2009) July 10 Nick Adams, American screenwriter (died 1968) Julian May, American science fiction author (died 2017)https://locusmag.com/2017/10/julian-may-1931-2017/ Julian May (1931-2017) October 20, 2017 Locus Magazine October 28, 2021 Alice Munro, Canadian short story writerHallvard Dahlie Alice Munro and Her Works https://books.google.com/books?id=bbsfAQAAIAAJ 1984 ECW Press 1 9780920802694 (died 2024) July 14 – E. 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Thompson, English novelist (died 2012) July 15 – Clive Cussler, American thriller writer and underwater explorer (died 2020)Cain Sian Clive Cussler, bestselling adventure novelist, dies aged 88 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/feb/26/clive-cussler-novelist-dies-88 April 11, 2020 The Guardian February 26, 2020 July 17 – Caroline Graham, English playwright, screenwriter and novelist August 2 – Karl Miller, British writer and literary editor (died 2014) August 12 – William Goldman, American novelist and screenwriter (died 2018) August 14 – Frederic Raphael, American-born English screenwriter, novelist and non-fiction authorThe Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century Taylor & Francis 2004 9781135456078 831 August 16 – Marion Patrick Jones, Trinidadian writer (died 2016) August 22 – Maurice Gee, New Zealand novelist September 14 – Ivan Klíma, Czech novelist and dramatist (died 2025) September 15 – Kalim Siddiqui, Pakistani-born British writer and Islamic activist (died 1996) September 22 Ashokamitran (Jagadisa Thyagarajan), Indian fiction writer (died 2017) Fay Weldon, English novelist (died 2023)Armitstead Claire 2023-01-04 Fay Weldon obituary en-GB The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/04/fay-weldon-obituary 2023-03-31 0261-3077 October 8 – Dennis Silk, American-born English writer on literature and cricket, and first-class cricketer (died 2019)https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/17772394.obituary-dennis-silk-former-president-mcc-warden-radley-college/ Obituary: Dennis Silk, former president of MCC and warden of Radley College July 16, 2019 Herald Scotland November 21, 2021 October 13 – Janice Elliott, English novelist and children's writer (died 1995) October 19 – John le Carré (David John Moore Cornwell), English spy novelist (died 2020)https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/14/john-le-carre-obituary John le Carré obituary Homberger Eric The Guardian 14 December 2020 14 December 2020 14 December 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201214022605/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/14/john-le-carre-obituary live October 22 – Ann Rule, American true-crime writer (died 2015)https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/29/arts/ann-rule-best-selling-author-of-true-crime-books-dies-at-83.html Ann Rule, 83, Dies: Wrote About Ted Bundy (a Friend) and Other Killers Grimes William July 28, 2015 The New York Times July 30, 2015 October 23 – James McNeish, New Zealand novelist, playwright and biographer (died 2016) November 3 – Arun Sarma, Assamese playwright and novelist (died 2017) November 15 – Kulanthai Shanmugalingam, Sri Lankan playwright (died 2025)https://www.northbeat.lk/sri-lankan-tamil-playwright-kulanthai-m-shanmugalingam-creator-of-mansumantha-manier-passes-away-at-93/ Sri Lankan Tamil Playwright Kulanthai M. Shanmugalingam, Creator of “Mansumantha Manier,” Passes Away at 93 2025-01-23 2025-09-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20250916072923/https://www.northbeat.lk/sri-lankan-tamil-playwright-kulanthai-m-shanmugalingam-creator-of-mansumantha-manier-passes-away-at-93/ dead November 18 – Nikoloz Janashia, Georgian historian (died 1982) November 28 Dervla Murphy, Irish cyclist and author (died 2022)https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2022/may/26/dervla-murphy-obituary Horwell Veronica Dervla Murphy obituary 26 May 2022 The Guardian London 0261-3077 27 May 2022 Tomi Ungerer, Alsatian illustrator and writer (died 2019)https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/28/tomi-ungerer-obituary Tomi Ungerer obituary 28 February 2019 Joanna Carey The Guardian 13 July 2024 December 2 – Nigel Calder, British science writer (died 2014) December 15 – Klaus Rifbjerg, Danish writer (died 2015) Gray Charlotte Klaus Rifbjerg Greenwood Press New York 1986 9780313250989 3 December 17 – Krystyna Boglar, Polish writer known mostly for her work for children and young adults (died 2019)2020-10-30 Krystyna Boglar (17.12.1931 - 14.11.2019) https://wyborcza.pl/7,134835,26456692,krystyna-boglar-17-12-1931-14-11-2019.html 2023-07-04 wyborcza.pl December 24 – Walter Abish, Austrian-born American writer (died 2022)https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/books/walter-abish-dead.html Walter Abish, Daring Writer Who Pondered Germany, Dies at 90 Alan Cowell The New York Times May 31, 2022 NYTimes.com December 31 – Bob Shaw, Irish science-fiction writer (died 1996)17 February 1996 Bob Shaw Obituary The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary--bob-shaw-1319392.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary--bob-shaw-1319392.html 2022-05-01 subscription live 8 November 2011 Deaths January 3 – L. Adams Beck, Irish writer (born 1862) January 12 – Henry Gauthier-Villars, French writer (born 1859) January 26 – Graça Aranha, Brazilian diplomat and writer (born 1868)Necrologies Bulletin of the Pan American Union The Union 1931 65 322 March 25 – Ida B. Wells, American journalist and novelist (born 1862) March 27 – Arnold Bennett, English novelist (born 1867)Arnold Bennett Letters of Arnold Bennett https://books.google.com/books?id=sWlaAAAAMAAJ 1966 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-212207-0 618 April 4 – André Michelin, French originator of Michelin Guides (born 1853)((Chase's Editors)) Contemporary Books Chase's Calendar of Events 2003 https://books.google.com/books?id=1NnUNBh6jIAC September 2002 McGraw-Hill 978-0-07-139098-9 55 April 10 – Khalil Gibran, Lebanese-born American poet (born 1883)Kahlil Gibran Robin Waterfield The Voice of Kahlil Gibran: An Anthology https://books.google.com/books?id=UFtFD5CiyesC 1995 Arkana 978-0-14-019506-4 xi June 29 – Nérée Beauchemin, French-Canadian poet (born 1850) July 2 – Harald Høffding, Danish philosopher (born 1843)The Philosophical Review Sage School of Philosophy Notes Cornell University Press 1931 505 July 14 – Vasile Cijevschi, Bessarabian Romanian soldier, journalist and short-story writer (born 1880) August 1 – Bertha McNamara, German-born Australian pamphleteer and bookseller (born 1853) August 15 – Delfín Chamorro, Spanish poet and language teacher (born 1863) August 26 – Frank Harris, Irish-born American author and editor (born 1856)John Stokes Oscar Wilde: Myths, Miracles and Imitations https://books.google.com/books?id=dU-QtGTNJNcC&pg=PA87 14 March 1996 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-47537-2 87 August 31 – Hall Caine, Manx novelist and dramatist (born 1853)Susanne Stark The Novel in Anglo-German Context: Cultural Cross-currents and Affinities : Papers from the Conference Held at the University of Leeds from 15 to 17 September 1997 https://books.google.com/books?id=uXdyujq4jTEC&pg=PA273 2000 Rodopi 90-420-0698-6 273 September 8 – Sue A. Sanders, American teacher, clubwoman, and author (born 1842)Active Life Ends https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24991412/susan_pike_sanders_obit_w_photo/ 28 January 2019 newspapers.com The Pantagraph 8 September 1931 3 September 9 – Matilda Cugler-Poni, Romanian poet (born 1851) September 24 – Ethel Hillyer Harris, author (born 1859) September 30 – Jane Meade Welch, American historian (born 1854) October 13 – Ernst Didring, Swedish novelist (born 1868) October 21 – Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian dramatist (born 1862)Reinhard Urbach Arthur Schnitzler. https://books.google.com/books?id=BF9cAAAAMAAJ 1973 Frederick Ungar A Book 978-0-8044-2936-8 11 October 27 – Lucas Malet (Mary St Leger Kingsley), English novelist (born 1852) November 3 – Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, Uruguayan epic poet (born 1855) November 5 – Ole Edvart Rolvaag, Norwegian American writer (born 1876) November 19 – Xu Zhimo (徐志摩), Chinese poet (air accident, born 1897) December 5 – Vachel Lindsay, American poet (born 1879)Masters Edgar Lee 1935 Vachel Lindsay : A Poet in America 361 978-0819602398 December 10 – Enrico Corradini, Italian novelist, essayist and journalist (born 1865) December 26 – Melvil Dewey, American inventor of library classification system (born 1851)Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Second Edition - Volume II Miriam Drake Taylor & Francis 2003 848 December 27 – Alfred Perceval Graves, Irish author and collector of songs and ballads (born 1846)Robert Hogan Macmillan Dictionary of Irish Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=iDJdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA269 12 January 2016 Macmillan International Higher Education 978-1-349-07795-3 269 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 References 30em External links Popular Books of 1931 at Goodreads Published 1931 Books at Goodreads 1931 Books at Goodreads