1937 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1937.

Events[]

  • January 9 – The first issue of Look magazine goes on sale in the United States.
  • 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, appears in the United States.
  • 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, the first known television broadcast of a Shakespeare piece. The cast includes 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 prints poems by a 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
    • Buchenwald concentration camp in Nazi Germany is established around the Goethe Oak.
    • Rex Ingamells and other poets initiate the Jindyworobak Movement in Australian literature, in the magazine Venture.[5]
    • The American academic librarian Randolph Greenfield Adams writes a controversial Library Quarterly essay, "Librarians as Enemies of Books", complaining of librarians downgrading books and scholarship in favor of other tasks.[6][7]
  • July 4 – The Lost Colony a historical drama by 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", inspired by April's Bombing of Guernica, is published in the U.S. The Saturday Evening Post as "The Place of the Gods".
  • 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 is published in England by George Allen & Unwin on the recommendation of young 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, London.[9]
  • November 11 (Armistice Day)
    • BBC Television broadcasts Journey's End by R. C. Sherriff, 1928, set on the Western Front (World War I) in 1918, as the first full-length television adaptation of a stage play. Reginald Tate plays the lead, having long performed it in the theater.[10][11]
    • Caesar, Orson Welles's modern-dress bare-stage adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, premieres as the first production of the Mercury Theatre in New York City.
  • unknown dates
    • The National Library of Iran is inaugurated in Tehran.[12]
    • The future novelist Angus Wilson becomes a book cataloguer at the British Museum Library in London.

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

  • Enid Blyton – The Adventures of the Wishing-Chair
  • C. S. Forester – The Happy Return (also as Beat to Quarters)
  • Eve Garnett – The Family from One End Street
  • Hergé – The Broken Ear (L'Oreille cassée)
  • Kornel Makuszyński – Argument About Basia (Awantura o Basię)
  • Carola Oman – Robin Hood
  • Arthur Ransome – We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea
  • Kate Seredy – The White Stag
  • Dr. Seuss – And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (verse)
  • J. R. R. Tolkien – The Hobbit
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder – On the Banks of Plum Creek
  • Henry Winterfeld (as Manfred Michael) – Timpetill – Die Stadt ohne Eltern (Timpetill – Parentless City, translated 1963 as Trouble at Timpetill)

Drama[]

Poetry[]

Main article: 1937 in poetry
  • David Jones – In Parenthesis (part prose)
  • Isaac Rosenberg (killed in action 1918) – Collected Works

Non-fiction[]

Births[]

  • January 1 – John Fuller, English poet
  • January 7 – Ian La Frenais, English television comedy writer
  • January 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 novelist
  • January 14 – J. Bernlef, born Hendrik Jan Marsman, Dutch poet, novelist and translator (died 2012)
  • January 22 – Joseph Wambaugh, American mystery novelist and non-fiction writer
  • January 23 – Juan Radrigán, Chilean playwright (died 2016)
  • February 11 – Maryse Condé, Guadeloupe historical fiction writer
  • February 20 – George Leonardos, Greek journalist and novelist
  • February 21 – Jilly Cooper, English novelist and journalist
  • February 27 – Peter Hamm, German poet, author, journalist, editor and literary critic (died 2019)
  • March 14 – Jan Karon (Janice Wilson), American novelist and children's writer
  • March 15 – Valentin Rasputin, Russian writer (died 2015)
  • April 10 – Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet (died 2010)
  • April 29 – Jill Paton Walsh (Gillian Bliss), English novelist (died 2020)
  • May 8 – Thomas Pynchon, American novelist
  • May 13
    • Roch Carrier, Canadian novelist and short-story writer
    • Roger Zelazny, American writer of fantasy and science fiction (died 1995)
  • 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[16]
  • 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
    • Richard Ingrams, English editor
    • Alexander Vampilov, Russian dramatist (drowned 1972)
  • September 5 – Dick Clement, English television comedy writer
  • October 4 – Jackie Collins, English-born romance novelist (died 2015)
  • October 7 – Christopher Booker, English journalist and editor (died 2019)
  • November 9
    • Roger McGough, English poet[17]
    • S. Abdul Rahman, Tamil poet (died 2017)
  • November 17 – Peter Cook, English comedian, satirist and writer (died 1995)
  • December 3 – Binod Bihari Verma, Maithili man of letters (died 2003)
  • December 11 – Jim Harrison, American novelist and poet (died 2016)
  • December 22
    • David F. Case, American novelist and short story writer
    • Charlotte Lamb (Sheila Holland, Sheila Coates, etc.), English romantic novelist (died 2000)
  • unknown date – Parijat (Bishnu Kumari Waiba), Nepalese novelist and poet (died 1993)

Deaths[]

  • February 19
    • Edward Garnett, English critic (born 1868)[18]
    • Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan short story writer (suicide, born 1878)[19]
  • March 7 – Tomas O'Crohan, Irish Gaelic writer and fisherman (born 1856)[20]
  • March 8 – Albert Verwey, Dutch poet (born 1865)[21]
  • March 15 – H. P. Lovecraft, American horror writer (intestinal cancer, born 1890)[22]
  • March 25 – John Drinkwater, English poet and dramatist (born 1882)[23]
  • May 20 – Frederic Taber Cooper, American editor and writer (born 1864)[24]
  • 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)
  • 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 16 – Jean de Brunhoff, French children's author and illustrator (born 1899)
  • October 17 – Florence Dugdale, English children's writer, widow of Thomas Hardy (cancer, born 1879)[25]
  • October 22 – Chūya Nakahara (中原 中也), Japanese poet (meningitis, born 1907)
  • October 31 – Ralph Connor, Canadian novelist (born 1860)
  • December 24 – Elizabeth Haldane, Scottish author, philosopher and suffragist (born 1862)
  • December 26 – Ivor Gurney, English war poet and composer (tuberculosis, born 1890)[26]
  • December 29 – Don Marquis, American poet (stroke, born 1878)

Awards[]

References[]

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  2. ^ "Pelican Books". Penguin First Editions. 2013. Retrieved 2015-07-16.
  3. ^ Keith, W. J. (July 2007), Owen Glendower: a Reader's Companion (PDF), p. 40
  4. ^ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (April 29, 1937). "Catalog of Copyright Entries: Periodicals" – via Google Books.
  5. ^ John Tregenza (1964). Australian Little Magazines, 1923-1954. Libraries Board of South Australia.
  6. ^ Kaser, David (1978). "Adams, Randolph Greenfield". In Wynar, Bohdan S. (ed.). Dictionary of American Library Biography. Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited. pp. 2–3.
  7. ^ "Randolph Greenfield Adams". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1977.
  8. ^ Leach, Robert (1995). "Introduction". In Tretyakov, Sergei Mikhailovich (ed.). I Want a Baby. Studies in drama and dance. University of Birmingham. ISBN 0704416204.
  9. ^ "Mrs. Miniver (1942)". Reel Classics. Archived from the original on 2 May 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-28.
  10. ^ "Televised Drama – Journey's End". The Times. London. 1937-11-12. p. 14.
  11. ^ Vahimagi, Tise (1994). British Television: An Illustrated Guide. Oxford University Press; British Film Institute. p. 8. ISBN 0-19-818336-4.
  12. ^ Sant Ram Bhatia (1978). Indian Librarian. Indian Librarian. p. 15.
  13. ^ Atkinson, Brooks (March 31, 1937). "THE PLAY; ' Red Harvest,' From a Diary of the Red Cross at the Front During the War" – via NYTimes.com.
  14. ^ "THE PLAY; ' Red Harvest,' From a Diary of the Red Cross at the Front During the War". timesmachine.nytimes.com.
  15. ^ Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 147. ISBN 080-5-7723-08.
  16. ^ Bloom, Harold (2009). Tom Stoppard. Infobase Publishing. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-4381-1652-5.
  17. ^ The Book of Golden Discs. Barrie & Jenkins. 1978. p. 248. ISBN 978-0-214-20480-7.
  18. ^ T. H. White (May 1984). Letters to a Friend. Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-425-06816-8.
  19. ^ Pan American Union (1937). Bulletin of the Pan American Union. The Union. p. 588.
  20. ^ Seán Ó Criomhthain (1993). A Day in Our Life. Oxford University Press. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-19-283119-4.
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  24. ^ "Frederic T. Cooper; Writer Educator." New York Times. 21 May 1937: 21.
  25. ^ Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy. p. xxiii. Retrieved 2015-02-23.
  26. ^ Ivor Gurney; Edmund Blunden; Leonard Clark (1973). Poems of Ivor Gurney, 1890-1937. Chatto and Windus. p. 21. ISBN 9780701119003.

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