1939 in literature

none 1939 literature poetry July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1939. March 2026 Events January American literary magazine The Kenyon Review is founded and edited by John Crowe Ransom.http://www.kenyonreview.org/about-history.php History The Kenyon Review 2007-01-26 https://web.archive.org/web/20081230133942/http://www.kenyonreview.org/about-history.php 2008-12-30 The American pulp science fiction magazine Startling Stories appears, edited by Mort Weisinger. It includes The Black Flame by Stanley G. Weinbaum as lead novel. Eando Binder's story "I, Robot" appears in the U.S. science fiction magazine Amazing Stories.Despina Kakoudaki Anatomy of a Robot: Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People Rutgers University Press 2014 9780813562179 129 The Criterion, a British literary quarterly, is founded and edited by T. S. Eliot.T. S. Eliot's Criterion: The Editor and His Contributors Herbert Howarth Comparative Literature 11 2 Spring 1959 97–110 10.2307/1768640 1768640 W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood set sail from England for the United States. January/February – Poetry London: a Bi-Monthly of Modern Verse and Criticism, founded and edited by Tambimuttu (with Dylan Thomas and others), is first published. February 6 – Raymond Chandler's California private detective Philip Marlowe is introduced in his first full-length work of crime fiction, The Big Sleep, which reworks elements from earlier short stories. It is published by Alfred A. Knopf in the United States.Steve King Chandler, Marlowe, The Big Sleep Today in Literature http://www.todayinliterature.com/stories.asp?Event_Date=2/6/1939 2015-10-21 March – Isaac Asimov's first published short story, "Marooned off Vesta", appears in Astounding Science-Fiction magazine. March 4 – BBC Television broadcasts one of the first specially written television plays, Condemned To Be Shot by R. E. J. Brooke (perhaps the actor Reginald Brooke), live from its London studios at Alexandra Palace. The production notably uses a camera as the first-person view by the play's unseen central character. March 31 – 20th Century Fox releases a film version of The Hound of the Baskervilles, first of a Sherlock Holmes film series starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr Watson. c. April – Following the final offensive of the Spanish Civil War, Francoist troops burn the entire library of Pompeu Fabra, the main author of the normative reform of contemporary Catalan language, while shouting "¡Abajo la inteligencia!" (Down with the intelligentsia!).http://lexicografia.blogspot.com/2008/05/de-la-destrucci-de-la-biblioteca-de.html De la destrucció de la biblioteca de Pompeu Fabra Lexicografia.blogspot.com 2016-07-18 2016-10-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20161013054026/http://lexicografia.blogspot.com/2008/05/de-la-destrucci-de-la-biblioteca-de.html live April 13 – The United Artists film version of Wuthering Heights, starring Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier, is released. May – Jorge Luis Borges' first short story in his later characteristic style, "Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote", is published in the Buenos Aires literary magazine Sur. May – The Pocket Books mass-market paperback imprint is launched in the United States. The first of the nationally distributed titles is James Hilton's Lost Horizon.The Time of Their Lives: The Golden Age of Great American Publishers, Their Editors and Authors Silverman Al Truman Talley 2008 978-0312-35003-1 256–257 May 4 – James Joyce's last work, Finnegans Wake, is published in full by Faber and Faber in London.Bogan, Louise. Finnegans Wake Review. Nation, cxlviii, 6 May 1939. pp. 533–535. Quoted in James Joyce: The Critical Heritage, p.667 May 15 – Russian writer Isaac Babel is arrested by the NKVD at his dacha as part of the Great Purge in the Soviet Union, and incarcerated in the Lubyanka Building in Moscow. c. August – Ernest Vincent Wright publishes his lipogrammatic novel Gadsby, "a story of over 50,000 words without using the letter 'E'", in Los Angeles a few months before his death on October 7. August Mikhail Bulgakov, while secretly working on The Master and Margarita, prepares the propaganda play Batumi, to romanticize events in Joseph Stalin's youth. The project is shelved by Stalin himself once Bulgakov announces he will interview witnesses personally.Montefiore Simon Sebag Simon Sebag Montefiore Young Stalin Phoenix London 2007 100 978-1-4072-2145-8 Robert A. Heinlein's first published short story, "Life-Line", appears in Astounding Science-Fiction. Before September – After a pledge drive led by Renaud de Jouvenel and Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, the Romanian poet Benjamin Fondane is naturalized French and in September conscripted into the French Army, to serve in the Phony War.Daniel Paul Fondane Benjamin Benjamin Fondane Poezii Editura Minerva Bucharest 1978 633–635 Destinul unui poet 252065138 September 2 – Jean-Paul Sartre is conscripted into the French Army, where he will serve as a meteorologist. September 3 – Yorkshire-born novelist and playwright J. B. Priestley reads the first installment of his novel Let the People Sing, a celebration of local democracy (published on January 4), on BBC Home Service radio in the UK, the day war is declared.Hugh Chignell Public Issue Radio: Talks, News and Current Affairs in the Twentieth Century https://books.google.com/books?id=QVjwmj2evkIC&pg=PT50 2011 Springer 978-0-230-34645-1 50 September 18 – The Polish painter, playwright and novelist Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (born 1885) commits suicide after the Soviet invasion of Poland. September/October – Famous Fantastic Mysteries, a pulp magazine reprinting American science fiction and fantasy, begins publication in New York. Fall – Frank Herbert lies about his age to get his first job as a local newspaper reporter. November – The teenage Brendan Behan is arrested in Liverpool for possessing explosives. November 8 – Lindsay and Crouse's stage adaptation of Clarence Day's Life with Father opens at the Empire Theatre (42nd Street) in New York. Running until 12 July 1947, it becomes the all-time longest-running non-musical play in Broadway theatre.Mark Lawson Mark Lawson The daddy of Broadway The Guardian London 2014-11-01 18 (Review) November/December – Captain Marvel makes his first appearance, in Whiz Comics #2 (cover date February 1940). New books thumb|right|120px bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!—From Finnegans Wake Fiction Eric Ambler – The Mask of DimitriosIan Ousby The Cambridge Paperback Guide to Literature in English https://books.google.com/books?id=43oBE1nJXaMC&pg=PA9 23 February 1996 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-43627-4 9 Sholem Asch – The Nazarene William Attaway – Let Me Breathe Thunder H. E. Bates – My Uncle Silas (short stories) Arna Wendell Bontemps – Drums at Dusk Pearl S. Buck – The Patriot Karel Čapek (died 1938) – Život a dílo skladatele Foltýna (Life and Work of the Composer Foltýn, translated as The Cheat, unfinished) Joyce Carey – Mister Johnson John Dickson Carr The Black Spectacles The Problem of the Wire Cage The Reader is Warned (as Carter Dickson) Drop to His Death (with John Rhode) Aimé Césaire – "Cahier d'un retour au pays natal" (in Volontés, August) Raymond Chandler – The Big Sleep James Hadley Chase – No Orchids for Miss Blandish Agatha Christie Murder is Easy The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories Ten Little Niggers G.D.H. Cole and Margaret Cole – Greek Tragedy Cecil Day-Lewis – The Smiler with the Knife Jeffrey Dell – Nobody Ordered Wolves Pierre Drieu La Rochelle – Gilles John Fante – Ask the Dust William Faulkner – If I Forget Thee Jerusalem (The Wild Palms/Old Man) Vardis Fisher – Children of God Konstantine Gamsakhurdia – The Right Hand of the Grand Master (დიდოსტატის კონსტანტინეს მარჯვენა)Reader's Encyclopedia of Eastern European Literature HarperCollins 1993 9780062700070 249 Rumer Godden – Black Narcissus Henry Green – Party Going Yaroslav Halan – The Mountains are Smoking Cyril Hare – Suicide Excepted Ernest Hemingway – The Snows of Kilimanjaro Rayner Heppenstall – The Blaze of Noon Anne Hocking – Old Mrs. Fitzgerald Zora Neale Hurston – Moses, Man of the Mountain Aldous Huxley – After Many a SummerAldous Huxley After Many a Summer: A Novel https://books.google.com/books?id=W7K8AAAAIAAJ 1939 Chatto and Windus Christopher Isherwood – Goodbye to Berlin James Joyce – Finnegans Wake Arthur Koestler – The Gladiators Richard Llewellyn – How Green Was My Valleyhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/richard-llewellyn/index.shtml Richard Llewellyn BBC Wales 28 November 2008 25 December 2011 H. P. Lovecraft – The Outsider and Others Ngaio Marsh – Overture to DeathDrayton Joanne Ngaio Marsh: Her Life in Crime 2008 Harper Collins 978000 7328680 136–147 Henry Miller – Tropic of Capricorn Gladys Mitchell – Printer's ErrorReilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015. Page 1089 Christopher Morley – Kitty Foyle Ian Niall (as John McNeillie) – Wigtown Ploughman Anaïs Nin – Winter of Artifice Flann O'Brien – At Swim-Two-Birds John O'Hara – Files on Parade Juan Carlos Onetti – El pozo (The Pit) George Orwell – Coming Up for Air Ellery Queen – The Dragon's Teeth Katherine Anne Porter – Pale Horse, Pale Rider Clayton Rawson – The Footprints on the Ceiling Seymour Reit – The Friendly Ghost Jean Rhys – Good Morning, Midnight Dorothy L. Sayers – In the Teeth of the Evidence Pierre Schaeffer – Chlothar Nicole (Clotaire Nicole) John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath Gladys Bronwyn Stern – The Woman in the Hall Rex Stout – Some Buried Caesar Cecil Street – Death on Sunday Jan Struther – Mrs. MiniverDeidre Lynch William Beatty Warner Cultural Institutions of the Novel Duke University Press 1996 9780822318439 169 Phoebe Atwood Taylor – Cold Steal (as Alice Tilton) Dalton Trumbo – Johnny Got His Gun https://books.google.com/books?id=X_4sAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Johnny+Got+His+Gun%22 Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo 2009-05-02 Trumbo Dalton 1939 J. B. Lippincott Company 9780847938254 S. S. Van Dine – The Winter Murder Case Simon Vestdijk – Sint Sebastiaan (first book chronologically in the Anton Wachter cycle) Elio Vittorini – Conversations in Sicily (Conversazione in Sicilia) Nathanael West – The Day of the Locust Ernest Vincent Wright – Gadsby Marguerite Yourcenar – Coup de Grâce Children and young people Ludwig Bemelmans – Madeline (first in an eponymous series of seven books) Enid Blyton – The Enchanted Wood Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan the Magnificent Lavinia R. Davis – Hobby Horse Hill Hardie Gramatky – Little Toot Carolyn Haywood – "B" is for Betsy (first in Betsy series) Robert Lawson – Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin By His Good Mouse Amos Hilda Lewis – The Ship That Flew Lucy Maud Montgomery – Anne of Ingleside Violet Needham – The Black Riders (first in the Stormy Petrel series) Carola Oman – Alfred, King of the English Arthur Ransome – We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings – The Yearling Joan G. Robinson – A Stands for Angel Felix Salten – Bambis Kinder, eine Familie in Walde (Bambi's Children) Alison Uttley – A Traveller in Time Laura Ingalls Wilder – By the Shores of Silver Lake Drama Philip Barry – The Philadelphia Story Bertolt Brecht Life of Galileo (Leben des Galilei; completed) Mother Courage and Her Children (Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder; written) Mikhail Bulgakov – Batumi (left unfinished) Max Catto – Punch without JudyTheatre World, Volume 33, Issues 180-186. Iliffe Specialist Publications, 1940. p.116 T. S. Eliot – The Family Reunion Jean Giraudoux – Ondine Ian Hay – Little Ladyship Frank Harvey – Saloon BarWearing, J.P. The London Stage 1930-1939: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. Page 769 Lillian Hellman – The Little FoxesThe Little Foxes http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/2851/The-Little-Foxes Playbill Vault 2014-04-24 George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart – The Man Who Came to Dinner Joseph Kesselring – Arsenic and Old Lace"Arsenic and Old Lace, Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times, 11 January 1941. Clare Boothe Luce – Margin for ErrorMargin for Error Opens The New York Times October 15, 1939 https://www.nytimes.com/1939/10/15/archives/margin-for-error-opens-clare-boothes-new-play-is-presented-in.html 48 Hugh Mills and Wells Root – As You Are William Saroyan – The Time of Your Life Will Scott – Married for MoneyWearing, J. P. The London Stage 1930–1939: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel Rowman & Littlefield 2014 769 Poetry 1939 in poetry W. H. Auden Journey to a War (with diary entries and nonfiction prose by Christopher Isherwood; March 16)Cox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 978-0-19-860634-5 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm "September 1, 1939" (in The New Republic (U.S.) October 18) Vladimir Cavarnali – Răsadul verde al inimii stelele de sus îl plouă (The Heart's Green Seedling Is Rained upon by the Stars Above) Aimé Césaire – Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (Notebook on a Return to the Native Land) T. S. Eliot – Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats José Gorostiza – Muerte sin fin (Death without End)https://figshare.le.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Oneiric_landscapes_of_creation_Visions_of_life_and_death_in_Jos_Gorostiza_s_Muerte_sin_fin_/10107590?file=18220352 Oneiric landscapes of creation: Visions of life and death in José Gorostiza's 'Muerte sin fin' Sheldon C. Penn Romance Studies 2011 29 (4) 255-268 Javier del Granado – Rosas Pálidas (Pale Roses) Changampuzha Krishna Pillai – Rahtapuspangal Christopher Smart (died 1771) – Jubilate Agno (as Rejoice in the Lamb: A Song from Bedlam, edited by W. F. Stead; completed by 1763) Non-fiction Adrian Bell – Men and the Fields Lord David Cecil – The Young Melbourne and the Story of his Marriage with Caroline Lamb Savitri Devi – A Warning to the Hindus Norbert Elias – The Civilizing Process (Über den Prozeß der Zivilisation) Mary Lascelles – Jane Austen and Her Art Erwin Panofsky – Studies in Iconology Ed Ricketts – Between Pacific Tides Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – Wind, Sand and Stars (Terre des hommes)Miller John R. Fay Eliot G. 381288 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: A Bibliography The French Review American Association of Teachers of French 19 5 1946 299–309 [p. 300] Ronald Syme – The Roman Revolution Bill W. and Dr. Bob – The Big Book Gamel Woolsey – Death's Other Kingdom Births January 10 – Jared Carter, American poet and author January 12 – Jacques Hamelink, Dutch poet, novelist and literary critic, best known for short stories (died 2021)https://www.rd.nl/artikel/951333-dichter-en-schrijver-jacques-hamelink-82-overleden Dichter en schrijver Jacques Hamelink (82) overleden rd.nl 18 November 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20230407103700/https://www.rd.nl/artikel/951333-dichter-en-schrijver-jacques-hamelink-82-overleden 7 April 2023 January 29 – Germaine Greer, Australian-born feminist authorStephen Pollard Ten Days that Changed the Nation: The Making of Modern Britain Simon & Schuster 2009 200 February 19 – Erin Pizzey, English novelist and founder of world's first domestic violence shelterhttps://books.google.com/books?id=5JYrAQAAIAAJ World Who's Who Of Women 1990/91 July 1, 1990 Taylor & Francis Google Books February 25 – Gerald Murnane, Australian novelist March 15 – Alicia Freilich, Venezuelan novelist March 25 – Toni Cade Bambara, African-American writer (died 1995) April 10 – Penny Vincenzi, née Hannaford, English novelist (died 2018)https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/28/penny-vincenzi-obituary Penny Vincenzi obituary February 28, 2018 Danuta Kean The Guardian September 1, 2021 April 12 – Alan Ayckbourn, English dramatistSidney Howard White Alan Ayckbourn Twayne 1984 9780805768701 1 April 13 – Seamus Heaney, Irish poet (died 2013)https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/aug/30/seamus-heaney Seamus Heaney obituary Neil Corcoran The Guardian 30 August 2013 September 1, 2021 April 22 – Jason Miller, American playwright and actor (died 2001)Pogrebin Robin https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/15/arts/jason-miller-playwright-and-actor-dies-at-62.html Jason Miller, Playwright and Actor, Dies at 62 The New York Times May 15, 2001 August 27, 2016 May 4 – Amos Oz, né Klausner, Israeli author (died 2018)https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/28/obituaries/amos-oz-dead.html Amos Oz, Israeli Author and Peace Advocate, Dies at 79 Kershner Isabel Isabel Kershner 28 December 2018 The New York Times 29 December 2018 June 5 – Margaret Drabble, English novelistVicki K. Janik Del Ivan Janik Emmanuel Sampath Nelson Modern British Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide https://books.google.com/books?id=RKkxuhw7kowC&pg=PA99 2002 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-31030-0 99 June 14 – Penelope Farmer, English children's writer June 15 – Brian Jacques, English writer (died 2011)2011-02-08 Brian Jacques https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/8311935/Brian-Jacques.html 2023-11-28 The Telegraph en July 2 – Ferdinand Mount, English journalist and novelist July 27 – Michael Longley, Northern Irish poet (died 2025) August 1 – Robert James Waller, American novelist (died 2017)https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/books/robert-james-waller-bridges-of-madison-county-author-dies.html Robert James Waller, Author of 'The Bridges of Madison County', Dies at 77 March 11, 2017 The New York Times September 6 – Dan Cragg, American science-fiction author September 16 – Breyten Breytenbach, South African writer and painterhttp://www.sahistory.org.za/people/breyten-breytenbach Breyten Breytenbach South African History Online 30 July 2014 September 9 – Ed Victor, American-born literary agent (died 2017)https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/08/ed-victor-obituary Ed Victor obituary Barnett David 9 June 2017 The Guardian 8 June 2017 September 24 – Jacky Gillott, English novelist (suicide 1980) October 6 – Melvyn Bragg, English novelist, critic and broadcast presenterBragg, Baron, (Melvyn Bragg) (born 6 Oct. 1939) https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-8507 WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO 2007 5 May 2021 978-0-19-954088-4 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u8507 October 7 – Clive James, Australian writer, humorist and television personality (died 2019) Jeffries Stuart Clive James Obituary https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/nov/27/clive-james-obituary The Guardian 27 November 2019 20 July 2020 October 8 – Harvey Pekar, American memoirist and graphic-novel scriptwriter (died 2010)"https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/arts/design/13pekar.html Harvey Pekar, 'American Splendor' Creator, Dies at 70 William Grimes The New York Times July 12, 2010 October 9 – John Pilger, Australian-born journalist and documentary filmmakerEuropa Publications International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004 https://books.google.com/books?id=phhhHT64kIMC&pg=PA444 2003 Psychology Press 978-1-85743-179-7 444 October 28 – Giulio Angioni, Italian writer and anthropologist (died 2017)September 2024 October 29 – Malay Roy Choudhury, Bengali poet, novelist and creator of the Indian Hungry generation literary and cultural movementhttps://www.newagebd.net/article/216031/bengali-poet-malay-roy-choudhury-dies Bengali poet Malay Roy Choudhury dies 26 October 2023 New Age 17 September 2024 November 17 – Auberon Waugh, English journalist and novelist (died 2001)Jeffrey Heath Picturesque Prison: Evelyn Waugh and His Writing https://books.google.com/books?id=jI_hMlMHd2gC&pg=PA148 1 January 1983 McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP 978-0-7735-6088-8 148 November 18 – Margaret Atwood, Canadian novelist and poetMargaret Atwood Jan Garden Castro Kathryn Van Spanckeren Margaret Atwood: Vision and Forms Southern Illinois University Press 1988 9780809314089 xxix November 25 – Shelagh Delaney, English dramatist (died 2011)Barker Dennis https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2011/nov/21/shelagh-delaney Obituary: Shelagh Delaney The Guardian 21 November 2011 10 June 2014 December 3 – Lee Israel, American biographer and literary forger (died 2014)https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11415893/Lee-Israel-literary-forger-obituary.html Lee Israel, literary forger - obituary The Telegraph 24 February 2015 1 April 2024 December 11 – Thomas McGuane, American writer December 18 – Michael Moorcock, English science fiction writerWilfried Wilms William Rasch Bombs Away!: Representing the Air War Over Europe and Japan https://books.google.com/books?id=PNid3h0IuaQC&pg=PA235 2006 Rodopi 90-420-1759-7 235 Deaths January 8 – Caton Theodorian, Romanian dramatist and novelist (born 1871) January 27 - Lewis Jones, Welsh miners' leader and novelist (born 1897)The Anglo-Welsh Review https://books.google.com/books?id=IKAeAQAAMAAJ 1983 Dock Leaves Press 62 January 28 – W. B. Yeats, Irish poet (born 1865)K. P. S. Jochum The Reception of W. B. Yeats in Europe https://books.google.com/books?id=FMkOxnrae8UC&pg=PA224 6 October 2006 A&C Black 978-0-8264-5963-3 224 February 2 – Amanda McKittrick Ros, Irish novelist and poet noted for her purple prose (born 1860)Frank Ormsby Thine in Storm and Calm: An Amanda McKittrick Ros Reader Belfast St Paul Blackstaff Press 1988 978-0-85640-408-5 4 February 5 – Teresa Mañé, Spanish teacher, editor and writer (born [1865)Davies Catherine Spanish Women's Writing 1849–1996 The Libertarian Superwoman: Federica Montseny (1905-1994) 1998 Athlone Press London https://books.google.com/books?id=ppRtzQXGS8wC&pg=PA138 78 0-485-91006-3 98-11468 468307323 February 18 – Okamoto Kanoko (岡本 かの子, Ohnuki Kano), Japanese tanka poet (born 1889) February 22 – Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (born 1875)William Arrowsmith James Fearon Brown The Chimera: A Rough Beast https://books.google.com/books?id=JgIwAAAAMAAJ 1966 5 March 7 – Ludwig Fulda, German playwright and poet, suicide (born 1862)Lester David Suicide and the Holocaust https://books.google.com/books?id=R1nkj-xSzYgC&dq=%22ludwig+fulda%22+suicide&pg=PA73 2005 Nova Publishers 978-1-59454-427-9 73 March 23 – Richard Halliburton, American travel writer (born 1900) April 5 – Sibyl Marvin Huse, French-born American author and teacher (born 1866).Obituary, Sibyl Marvin Huse. Died April 5, 1939. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112286224/obituary-sibyl-marvin-huse-died-april/ 30 October 2022 The Courier-News 6 April 1939 1 April 11 – S. S. Van Dine (Willard Huntington Wright), American crime novelist and art critic (born 1888)The Encyclopedia Americana https://books.google.com/books?id=E45UAAAAMAAJ 2002 Grolier Incorporated 978-0-7172-0135-8 894 May 23 – Margarete Böhme, German novelist (born 1867) Smith Brian An encyclopedia of German women writers, 1900-1933 : biographies and bibliographies with exemplary readings E. Mellen Press Lewiston, N.Y 1997 9780773485846 81 May 27 – Joseph Roth, Austrian novelist (born 1894)http://www.krakowpost.com/1334/2009/05 Joseph Roth: The Legend of the Holy Drinker May 27, 2009 Martin Kraft Krakow Post October 31, 2022 June 5 – Solomon Cleaver, Canadian storyteller and novelist (born 1855) June 13 – Volter Kilpi, Finnish novelist (born 1874)http://www.kansallisbiografia.fi/english/?id=4972 Kilpi, Volter (1874-1939) Assmann Dietrich The National Biography of Finland Biografiakeskus, Suomen Kirjallisuuden Seura 27 September 2016 June 14 – Vladislav Khodasevich, Russian poet and critic (born 1886) June 26 – Ford Madox Ford (Ford Hermann Hueffer), English novelist (born 1873)August Nemo Camille Flammarion Essential Novelists - Ford Madox Ford: The Redefinition of Modern Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=UZugDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT3 3 July 2019 Tacet Books 978-85-7777-331-2 3 July 5 – Mrs. O. F. Walton, English writer of Christian children's books (born 1849) July 8 – Havelock Ellis, English sexual psychologist and writer (born 1859)Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of London https://books.google.com/books?id=vAtPAQAAIAAJ 1968 Royal College of Physicians 121 August 7 – Leonard Merrick, English novelist (born 1864)Who's who in the Theatre Pitman 1967 1664 August 15 – Federico Gamboa, Mexican diplomat and writer (born 1864)Bulletin of the Pan American Union The Union 1939 676 August 20 – Agnes Giberne, English children's writer (born 1845)Copson Belinda Giberne, Agnes (1845–1939) 2004-09-23 10.1093/ref:odnb/58972 https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/58972 2020-10-18 August 23 Sidney Howard, American writer (born 1891)Arthur Gewirtz Sidney Howard and Clare Eames: American Theater's Perfect Couple of the 1920s McFarland, Incorporated 2004 9780786417513 281 Robin Hyde (Iris Guiver Wilkinson), South African-born New Zealand poet and novelist, suicide (born 1905) August 31 – Wilhelm Bölsche, German journalist, editor and science writer (born [1861)https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz5042.html Bölsche, Wilhelm - Deutsche Biographie September 6 – Arthur Rackham, English book illustrator (born 1867)Hamilton James Stanley Rackham, Arthur, (1867-1939) 2004-09-23 10.1093/ref:odnb/35645 September 7 – Kyōka Izumi, Japanese author (b. 1873)Keene Donald Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era Izumi Kyōka 202–219 New York Columbia University Press 1998 0-231-11435-4 September 19 – Ethel M. Dell, English romantic novelist (born 1881) October 23 – Zane Grey, American western novelist (born 1872) October 29 – Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (born 1864) November – Pedro Nolasco Cruz Vergara, Chilean literary critic, novelist, writer, and politician (born 1857)Alone Hernán Díaz Arrieta Diario íntimo, 1917-1947 https://books.google.com/books?id=KOEcAQAAIAAJ 2001 Zig-Zag 72 November 6 – Eliza D. Keith, American educator, author, and journalist (born 1854)https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108406075/obituary-for-eliza-d-keith November 6, 1939 San Francisco Examiner Obituary for Eliza D. Keith August 27, 2022 December 2 – Llewelyn Powys, English novelist and autobiographer (born 1884)George Santayana The Letters of George Santayana https://books.google.com/books?id=61iA6tDeiXwC&pg=PA143 2001 MIT Press 978-0-262-19495-2 143 December 13 – Frances Brackett Damon (Percy Larkin), American writer (born 1857)Mrs. Frances B. Damon http://obits.abbott-library.com/readobit.php?obitid=3717 The Eastern Gazette 12-14-1939, p.5 abbott-library.com 20 March 2022 unknown dates Anna Braden, American author, editor, elocutionist (born 1858) Mary Frances Dowdall, English novelist and non-fiction writer (born 1876) Culai Neniu, Moldovan folklorist and dramatist (shot; born 1905) Awards Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Eleanor Doorly, The Radium Woman James Tait Black Memorial Prize: Fiction: Aldous Huxley, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan Biography: David C. Douglas, English Scholars Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth Enright, Thimble Summer Nobel Prize in Literature: Frans Eemil Sillanpää Pulitzer Prize: Drama: Robert E. Sherwood, Abe Lincoln in Illinois Poetry: John Gould Fletcher, Selected Poems Novel: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The YearlingHeinz-D. Fischer Erika J. Fischer Chronicle of the Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction: Discussions, Decisions and Documents https://books.google.com/books?id=Yjj7FiO4p44C&pg=PA12 14 February 2012 Walter de Gruyter 978-3-11-097330-3 12 Hugo Award: Best Novella: Don A. Stuart, Who Goes There? References 30em External links Popular Books of 1939 at Goodreads Published 1939 Books at Goodreads 1939 Books at Goodreads