Events Penguin Books publishes the first "paperback" book. Studs Lonigan - A Trilogy is published by James T. Farrell. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. New Books Box of Delights - John Masefield Burmese Days - George Orwell Butterfield 8 - John O'Hara A Clergyman's Daughter - George Orwell Dobry - Monica Shannon Gaudy Night - Dorothy L. Sayers The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money - John Maynard Keynes Golden Apples - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings The Hidden Harbor Mystery - Franklin W. Dixon A House Divided - Pearl S. Buck Journeyman - Erskine Caldwell The Last Puritan - George Santayana The Lotus Eaters - Stanley G. Weinbaum Mistress of Mistresses - E.R. Eddison National Velvet - Enid Bagnold Ollie Miss - George Wylie Henderson Red Sky in the Morning - Robert P. Tristram Coffin The Strange Death of Liberal England - George Dangerfield A Stranger Still - Anna Kavan (writing as Helen Ferguson) Studs Lonigan - A Trilogy - James T. Farrell They Shall Inherit the Earth - Morley Callaghan Treasure of the Sierra Madre - B. Traven When the Mountain Fell - Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz Winterset - Maxwell Anderson Births January 30 - Richard Brautigan, writer and poet February 5 - Sandra Paretti, author (+ 1994) March 1 - Judith Rossner, writer August 15 - Régine Deforges, writer, publisher September 17 - Ken Kesey, author October 7 - Thomas Keneally, Australian novelist Deaths April 6 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet August 17 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, author August 30 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist December 21 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: Monica Shannon, Dobry Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Zoe Akins, The Old Maid Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Audrey Wurdemann: Bright Ambush Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Josephine Winslow Johnson - Now in November
