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href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_az_irodalomban" title="1938 az irodalomban – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="1938 az irodalomban" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_%D0%B2%D0%BE_%D0%BA%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0" title="1938 во книжевноста – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="1938 во книжевноста" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litteratur%C3%A5ret_1938" title="Litteraturåret 1938 – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Litteraturåret 1938" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" 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width:15%;"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/List_of_years_in_literature" title="List of years in literature">List of years in literature</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right; width:15%;">(<a href="/wiki/Table_of_years_in_literature" title="Table of years in literature">table</a>) </td></tr></tbody></table> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li::after{content:" · ";font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li:last-child::after{content:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:first-child::before{content:" (";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Literature_by_year" title="Category:Literature by year">…</a> <a href="/wiki/1928_in_literature" title="1928 in literature">1928</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1929_in_literature" title="1929 in literature">1929</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1930_in_literature" title="1930 in literature">1930</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1931_in_literature" title="1931 in literature">1931</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1932_in_literature" title="1932 in literature">1932</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1933_in_literature" title="1933 in literature">1933</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1934_in_literature" title="1934 in literature">1934</a><br /></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1935_in_literature" title="1935 in literature">1935</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1936_in_literature" title="1936 in literature">1936</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1937_in_literature" title="1937 in literature">1937</a></li> <li><b><a class="mw-selflink selflink">1938</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1939_in_literature" title="1939 in literature">1939</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1940_in_literature" title="1940 in literature">1940</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1941_in_literature" title="1941 in literature">1941</a><br /></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1942_in_literature" title="1942 in literature">1942</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1943_in_literature" title="1943 in literature">1943</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1944_in_literature" title="1944 in literature">1944</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1945_in_literature" title="1945 in literature">1945</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1946_in_literature" title="1946 in literature">1946</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1947_in_literature" title="1947 in literature">1947</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1948_in_literature" title="1948 in literature">1948</a> <a href="/wiki/Category:Literature_by_year" title="Category:Literature by year">…</a></li></ul> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="border-top:1px #aaa solid; padding-bottom:0;text-align:center;"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"> <dl><dt><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold">In poetry</span></dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/1935_in_poetry" title="1935 in poetry">1935</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/1936_in_poetry" title="1936 in poetry">1936</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/1937_in_poetry" title="1937 in poetry">1937</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/1938_in_poetry" title="1938 in poetry">1938</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/1939_in_poetry" title="1939 in poetry">1939</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/1940_in_poetry" title="1940 in poetry">1940</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/1941_in_poetry" title="1941 in poetry">1941</a></dd></dl> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1938_in_art" title="1938 in art">Art</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1938_in_archaeology" title="1938 in archaeology">Archaeology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1938_in_architecture" title="1938 in architecture">Architecture</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1938_in_music" title="1938 in music">Music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1938_in_philosophy" title="1938 in philosophy">Philosophy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1938_in_science" title="1938 in science">Science</a></li></ul> </div><i><a href="/wiki/Category:1938" title="Category:1938">+...</a></i> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>This article contains information about the literary events and publications of <b>1938</b>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Events">Events</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1938_in_literature&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Events"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>January <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/John_Dos_Passos" title="John Dos Passos">John Dos Passos</a> trilogy <i><a href="/wiki/U.S.A._trilogy" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S.A. trilogy">U.S.A.</a></i> is published, containing his novels <i><a href="/wiki/The_42nd_Parallel_(novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="The 42nd Parallel (novel)">The 42nd Parallel</a></i> (1930), <i><a href="/wiki/1919_(novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="1919 (novel)">1919</a></i> (1932), and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Big_Money_(novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Big Money (novel)">The Big Money</a></i> (1936).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Beckett" title="Samuel Beckett">Samuel Beckett</a> is stabbed in the chest in Paris and nearly killed.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_21" title="February 21">February 21</a> – The gay American writer and composer <a href="/wiki/Paul_Bowles" title="Paul Bowles">Paul Bowles</a> marries the lesbian American writer <a href="/wiki/Jane_Bowles" title="Jane Bowles">Jane Auer</a> at a <a href="/wiki/Reformed_Church_in_America" title="Reformed Church in America">Reformed Church</a> in <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_7" title="March 7">March 7</a> – Samuel Beckett's first completed novel <i><a href="/wiki/Murphy_(novel)" title="Murphy (novel)">Murphy</a></i> is published in London.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_11" title="July 11">July 11</a> – The first live drama adaptation in <a href="/wiki/Orson_Welles" title="Orson Welles">Orson Welles</a>' <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mercury_Theatre_on_the_Air" title="The Mercury Theatre on the Air">The Mercury Theatre on the Air</a></i> series on <a href="/wiki/CBS_Radio" title="CBS Radio">CBS Radio</a> in the United States is broadcast: <a href="/wiki/Bram_Stoker" title="Bram Stoker">Bram Stoker</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Dracula" title="Dracula">Dracula</a></i>.</li> <li>August – <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslims</a> protest in London against passages they see as disrespectful to their religion in <a href="/wiki/H._G._Wells" title="H. G. Wells">H. G. Wells</a>' <i><a href="/wiki/A_Short_History_of_the_World_(H._G._Wells)" class="mw-redirect" title="A Short History of the World (H. G. Wells)">A Short History of the World</a></i> (1922).<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_13" title="September 13">September 13</a> – The first production in Britain of a play by <a href="/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht" title="Bertolt Brecht">Bertolt Brecht</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Se%C3%B1ora_Carrar%27s_Rifles" title="Señora Carrar's Rifles">Mrs Carrar's Rifles</a></i>, opens at the <a href="/wiki/Unity_Theatre,_London" title="Unity Theatre, London">Unity Theatre, London</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_30" title="October 30">October 30</a> – <a href="/wiki/Orson_Welles" title="Orson Welles">Orson Welles</a>' <a href="/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama)" title="The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama)">radio adaptation of <i>The War of the Worlds</i></a> (with script by <a href="/wiki/Howard_Koch_(screenwriter)" title="Howard Koch (screenwriter)">Howard Koch</a>) is broadcast in <i>The Mercury Theatre on the Air</i> series.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_24" title="December 24">December 24</a> – <a href="/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges" title="Jorge Luis Borges">Jorge Luis Borges</a> is injured in an accident and develops blood poisoning. While recovering the following year he will write the first short story in his later characteristic style.</li> <li><i>Uncertain dates</i> <ul><li>The first complete performance of both parts of <a href="/wiki/Goethe" class="mw-redirect" title="Goethe">Goethe</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Goethe%27s_Faust" title="Goethe's Faust">Faust</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/1808_in_literature" title="1808 in literature">1808</a>/<a href="/wiki/1832_in_literature" title="1832 in literature">32</a>) is given at the <a href="/wiki/Goetheanum" title="Goetheanum">Goetheanum</a> in <a href="/wiki/Dornach" title="Dornach">Dornach</a>, Switzerland.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The avant-garde musician and theoretician <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Schaeffer" title="Pierre Schaeffer">Pierre Schaeffer</a> begins his writing career as an essayist for a number of French musical journals.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="New_books">New books</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1938_in_literature&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: New books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fiction">Fiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1938_in_literature&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Margery_Allingham" title="Margery Allingham">Margery Allingham</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Fashion_in_Shrouds" title="The Fashion in Shrouds">The Fashion in Shrouds</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Ambler" title="Eric Ambler">Eric Ambler</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Cause_for_Alarm_(Ambler_novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cause for Alarm (Ambler novel)">Cause for Alarm</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Epitaph_for_a_Spy" title="Epitaph for a Spy">Epitaph for a Spy</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Bartol" title="Vladimir Bartol">Vladimir Bartol</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Alamut_(Bartol_novel)" title="Alamut (Bartol novel)">Alamut</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Berkeley_Cox" title="Anthony Berkeley Cox">Anthony Berkeley</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Not_to_Be_Taken" title="Not to Be Taken">Not to Be Taken</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Bowen" title="Elizabeth Bowen">Elizabeth Bowen</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Death_of_the_Heart" title="The Death of the Heart">The Death of the Heart</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Bowers" title="Dorothy Bowers">Dorothy Bowers</a> – <i>Postscript to Poison</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lynn_Brock" title="Lynn Brock">Lynn Brock</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Silver_Sickle_Case" title="The Silver Sickle Case">The Silver Sickle Case</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Rice_Burroughs" title="Edgar Rice Burroughs">Edgar Rice Burroughs</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Tarzan_and_the_Forbidden_City" title="Tarzan and the Forbidden City">Tarzan and the Forbidden City</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taylor_Caldwell" title="Taylor Caldwell">Taylor Caldwell</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Dynasty_of_Death" title="Dynasty of Death">Dynasty of Death</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victor_Canning" title="Victor Canning">Victor Canning</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Mr._Finchley_Goes_to_Paris" title="Mr. Finchley Goes to Paris">Mr. Finchley Goes to Paris</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Dickson_Carr" title="John Dickson Carr">John Dickson Carr</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Four_False_Weapons" title="The Four False Weapons">The Four False Weapons</a>, Being the Return of Bencolin</i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/To_Wake_the_Dead" title="To Wake the Dead">To Wake the Dead</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Crooked_Hinge" title="The Crooked Hinge">The Crooked Hinge</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Judas_Window" title="The Judas Window">The Judas Window</a></i> (as Carter Dickson)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Death_in_Five_Boxes" title="Death in Five Boxes">Death in Five Boxes</a></i> (as Carter Dickson)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Cheyney" title="Peter Cheyney">Peter Cheyney</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Can_Ladies_Kill%3F" title="Can Ladies Kill?">Can Ladies Kill?</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Urgent_Hangman" title="The Urgent Hangman">The Urgent Hangman</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agatha_Christie" title="Agatha Christie">Agatha Christie</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercule_Poirot%27s_Christmas" title="Hercule Poirot's Christmas">Hercule Poirot's Christmas</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Appointment_with_Death" title="Appointment with Death">Appointment with Death</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Cohen_(novelist)" title="Albert Cohen (novelist)">Albert Cohen</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Nailcruncher" title="Nailcruncher">Nailcruncher</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freeman_Wills_Crofts" title="Freeman Wills Crofts">Freeman Wills Crofts</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Antidote_to_Venom" title="Antidote to Venom">Antidote to Venom</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_End_of_Andrew_Harrison" title="The End of Andrew Harrison">The End of Andrew Harrison</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J.J._Connington" class="mw-redirect" title="J.J. Connington">J.J. Connington</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/For_Murder_Will_Speak" title="For Murder Will Speak">For Murder Will Speak</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Truth_Comes_Limping" title="Truth Comes Limping">Truth Comes Limping</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Daumal" title="René Daumal">René Daumal</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/A_Night_of_Serious_Drinking" title="A Night of Serious Drinking">A Night of Serious Drinking</a> (La Grande Beuverie)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cecil_Day-Lewis" title="Cecil Day-Lewis">Cecil Day-Lewis</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Beast_Must_Die_(novel)" title="The Beast Must Die (novel)">The Beast Must Die</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Dos_Passos" title="John Dos Passos">John Dos Passos</a> – <i>The Big Money</i> (completing the <a href="/wiki/U.S.A._(trilogy)" title="U.S.A. (trilogy)"><i>U.S.A.</i> trilogy</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daphne_du_Maurier" title="Daphne du Maurier">Daphne du Maurier</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Rebecca_(novel)" title="Rebecca (novel)">Rebecca</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Durrell" title="Lawrence Durrell">Lawrence Durrell</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Black_Book_(Durrell_novel)" title="The Black Book (Durrell novel)">The Black Book</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mircea_Eliade" title="Mircea Eliade">Mircea Eliade</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Marriage_in_Heaven" title="Marriage in Heaven">Marriage in Heaven</a> (Nuntă în cer)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Faulkner" title="William Faulkner">William Faulkner</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Unvanquished" title="The Unvanquished">The Unvanquished</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rachel_Field" title="Rachel Field">Rachel Field</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/All_This_and_Heaven_Too" class="mw-redirect" title="All This and Heaven Too">All This and Heaven Too</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._S._Forester" title="C. S. Forester">C. S. Forester</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Ship_of_the_Line" title="A Ship of the Line">A Ship of the Line</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Flying_Colours_(novel)" title="Flying Colours (novel)">Flying Colours</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Gilbert_(author)" class="mw-redirect" title="Anthony Gilbert (author)">Anthony Gilbert</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Treason_in_My_Breast" title="Treason in My Breast">Treason in My Breast</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julien_Gracq" title="Julien Gracq">Julien Gracq</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Castle_of_Argol" title="The Castle of Argol">The Castle of Argol</a> (Au château d'Argol)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Graves" title="Robert Graves">Robert Graves</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Count_Belisarius" title="Count Belisarius">Count Belisarius</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Graham_Greene" title="Graham Greene">Graham Greene</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Brighton_Rock_(novel)" title="Brighton Rock (novel)">Brighton Rock</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Greenwood" title="Walter Greenwood">Walter Greenwood</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Only_Mugs_Work" title="Only Mugs Work">Only Mugs Work</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Secret_Kingdom_(novel)" title="The Secret Kingdom (novel)">The Secret Kingdom</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyril_Hare" title="Cyril Hare">Cyril Hare</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Death_Is_No_Sportsman" title="Death Is No Sportsman">Death Is No Sportsman</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xavier_Herbert" title="Xavier Herbert">Xavier Herbert</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Capricornia_(novel)" title="Capricornia (novel)">Capricornia</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robin_Hyde" title="Robin Hyde">Robin Hyde</a> – <i>The Godwits Fly</i> (semi-autobiographical)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Innes" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael Innes">Michael Innes</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Lament_for_a_Maker" title="Lament for a Maker">Lament for a Maker</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Kennedy" title="Margaret Kennedy">Margaret Kennedy</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Midas_Touch_(novel)" title="The Midas Touch (novel)">The Midas Touch</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Kennington" title="Alan Kennington">Alan Kennington</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/She_Died_Young" title="She Died Young">She Died Young</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emilio_Lussu" title="Emilio Lussu">Emilio Lussu</a> – <i>Un anno sull'altopiano</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._S._Lewis" title="C. S. Lewis">C. S. Lewis</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Out_of_the_Silent_Planet" title="Out of the Silent Planet">Out of the Silent Planet</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norman_Lindsay" title="Norman Lindsay">Norman Lindsay</a> – <i>Age of Consent</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ngaio_Marsh" title="Ngaio Marsh">Ngaio Marsh</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Artists_in_Crime" title="Artists in Crime">Artists in Crime</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Death_in_a_White_Tie" title="Death in a White Tie">Death in a White Tie</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gladys_Mitchell" title="Gladys Mitchell">Gladys Mitchell</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/St_Peter%27s_Finger" title="St Peter's Finger">St Peter's Finger</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov" title="Vladimir Nabokov">Vladimir Nabokov</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Gift_(Nabokov_novel)" title="The Gift (Nabokov novel)">The Gift</a></i> (Дар)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Invitation_to_a_Beheading" title="Invitation to a Beheading">Invitation to a Beheading</a></i> (Приглашение на казнь; serialization concludes)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._Phillips_Oppenheim" title="E. Phillips Oppenheim">E. Phillips Oppenheim</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Colossus_of_Arcadia" title="The Colossus of Arcadia">The Colossus of Arcadia</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kate_O%27Brien_(novelist)" title="Kate O'Brien (novelist)">Kate O'Brien</a> – <i>Pray for the Wanderer</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_O%27Hara" title="John O'Hara">John O'Hara</a> – <i>Hope of Heaven</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ellery_Queen" title="Ellery Queen">Ellery Queen</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Devil_to_Pay_(1938_novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Devil to Pay (1938 novel)">The Devil to Pay</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Four_of_Hearts" title="The Four of Hearts">The Four of Hearts</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Graciliano_Ramos" title="Graciliano Ramos">Graciliano Ramos</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Vidas_Secas" class="mw-redirect" title="Vidas Secas">Vidas Secas</a> (Barren Lives)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ayn_Rand" title="Ayn Rand">Ayn Rand</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Anthem_(novella)" title="Anthem (novella)">Anthem</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marjorie_Kinnan_Rawlings" title="Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings">Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Yearling" title="The Yearling">The Yearling</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clayton_Rawson" title="Clayton Rawson">Clayton Rawson</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Death_from_a_Top_Hat" title="Death from a Top Hat">Death from a Top Hat</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Roth" title="Joseph Roth">Joseph Roth</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_Tomb" title="The Emperor's Tomb">The Emperor's Tomb</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre" title="Jean-Paul Sartre">Jean-Paul Sartre</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Nausea_(novel)" title="Nausea (novel)">Nausea</a> (La Nausée)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georges_Simenon" title="Georges Simenon">Georges Simenon</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Man_Who_Watched_the_Trains_Go_By_(novel)" title="The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (novel)">The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Marie_of_the_Port_(novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Marie of the Port (novel)">Marie of the Port</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Esphyr_Slobodkina" title="Esphyr Slobodkina">Esphyr Slobodkina</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Caps_for_Sale" title="Caps for Sale">Caps for Sale</a>: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lady_Eleanor_Smith" title="Lady Eleanor Smith">Eleanor Smith</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Spanish_House_(novel)" title="The Spanish House (novel)">The Spanish House</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howard_Spring" title="Howard Spring">Howard Spring</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/My_Son,_My_Son_(novel)" title="My Son, My Son (novel)">My Son, My Son</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Steinbeck" title="John Steinbeck">John Steinbeck</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Long_Valley" title="The Long Valley">The Long Valley</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rex_Stout" title="Rex Stout">Rex Stout</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Too_Many_Cooks_(novel)" title="Too Many Cooks (novel)">Too Many Cooks</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cecil_Street" title="Cecil Street">Cecil Street</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Bloody_Tower" title="The Bloody Tower">The Bloody Tower</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Death_at_Low_Tide" title="Death at Low Tide">Death at Low Tide</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Invisible_Weapons" title="Invisible Weapons">Invisible Weapons</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kressmann_Taylor" class="mw-redirect" title="Kressmann Taylor">Kressmann Taylor</a> – <i>Address Unknown</i> (short story)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phoebe_Atwood_Taylor" title="Phoebe Atwood Taylor">Phoebe Atwood Taylor</a> <ul><li><i>The Annulet of Gilt</i></li> <li><i>Banbury Bog</i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Cut_Direct" title="The Cut Direct">The Cut Direct</a></i> (as by Alice Tilton)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Murder_at_the_New_York_World%27s_Fair" title="Murder at the New York World's Fair">Murder at the New York World's Fair</a></i> (as by Freeman Dana)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._Traven" title="B. Traven">B. Traven</a> – <i>The Bridge in the Jungle</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._S._Van_Dine" title="S. S. Van Dine">S. S. Van Dine</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Gracie_Allen_Murder_Case" title="The Gracie Allen Murder Case">The Gracie Allen Murder Case</a></i></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Franti%C5%A1ek_Bernard_Van%C4%9Bk&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="František Bernard Vaněk (page does not exist)">František Bernard Vaněk</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franti%C5%A1ek_Bernard_Van%C4%9Bk" class="extiw" title="cs:František Bernard Vaněk">cs</a>]</span> – <i><a href="/wiki/Na_kr%C3%A1sn%C3%A9_samot%C4%9B" title="Na krásné samotě">Na krásné samotě</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Henry_Aubrey-Fletcher,_6th_Baronet" title="Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet">Henry Wade</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Released_for_Death" title="Released for Death">Released for Death</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winifred_Watson" title="Winifred Watson">Winifred Watson</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Miss_Pettigrew_Lives_for_a_Day_(novel)" title="Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (novel)">Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evelyn_Waugh" title="Evelyn Waugh">Evelyn Waugh</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Scoop_(novel)" title="Scoop (novel)">Scoop</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethel_Lina_White" title="Ethel Lina White">Ethel Lina White</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Step_in_the_Dark" title="Step in the Dark">Step in the Dark</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._H._White" title="T. H. White">T. H. White</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sword_in_the_Stone_(novel)" title="The Sword in the Stone (novel)">The Sword in the Stone</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gale_Wilhelm" title="Gale Wilhelm">Gale Wilhelm</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Torchlight_to_Valhalla" title="Torchlight to Valhalla">Torchlight to Valhalla</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Brett_Young" title="Francis Brett Young">Francis Brett Young</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Dr._Bradley_Remembers" class="mw-redirect" title="Dr. Bradley Remembers">Dr. Bradley Remembers</a></i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Children_and_young_people">Children and young people</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1938_in_literature&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Children and young people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>BB (<a href="/wiki/Denys_Watkins-Pitchford" title="Denys Watkins-Pitchford">Denys Watkins-Pitchford</a>) – <i>Wild Lone: The Story of a Pytchley Fox</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claire_Huchet_Bishop" title="Claire Huchet Bishop">Claire Huchet Bishop</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Five_Chinese_Brothers" title="The Five Chinese Brothers">The Five Chinese Brothers</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enid_Blyton" title="Enid Blyton">Enid Blyton</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Secret_Series_(Enid_Blyton)" title="The Secret Series (Enid Blyton)">The Secret Island</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eleanor_Graham" title="Eleanor Graham">Eleanor Graham</a> – <i>The Children Who Lived in a Barn</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joan_Kahn" title="Joan Kahn">Joan Kahn</a> – <i>"Ladies and Gentlemen," said the Ringmaster</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Knight" title="Eric Knight">Eric Knight</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Lassie_Come_Home" title="Lassie Come Home">Lassie Come-Home</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marjorie_Kinnan_Rawlings" title="Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings">Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Yearling" title="The Yearling">The Yearling</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kate_Seredy" title="Kate Seredy">Kate Seredy</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_White_Stag" title="The White Stag">The White Stag</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noel_Streatfeild" title="Noel Streatfeild">Noel Streatfeild</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Circus_Is_Coming" title="The Circus Is Coming">The Circus Is Coming</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._H._White" title="T. H. White">T. H. White</a> – <i>The Sword in the Stone</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_F._C._Westerman" title="John F. C. Westerman">John F. C. Westerman</a> – <i>John Wentley Takes Charge</i> (first in the John Wentley trilogy)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ursula_Moray_Williams" title="Ursula Moray Williams">Ursula Moray Williams</a> – <i>Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse</i><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Drama">Drama</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1938_in_literature&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Drama"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Anouilh" title="Jean Anouilh">Jean Anouilh</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Thieves%27_Carnival" title="Thieves' Carnival">Thieves' Carnival</a></i> (<i>Le Bal des Voleurs</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Ardrey" title="Robert Ardrey">Robert Ardrey</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Casey_Jones_(play)" title="Casey Jones (play)">Casey Jones</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Max_Catto" title="Max Catto">Max Catto</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/They_Walk_Alone" title="They Walk Alone">They Walk Alone</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Claudel" title="Paul Claudel">Paul Claudel</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/L%27Histoire_de_Tobie_et_de_Sara" title="L'Histoire de Tobie et de Sara">L'Histoire de Tobie et de Sara</a></i> (<i>The History of Tobit and Sara</i>, first version)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Molly_Keane" title="Molly Keane">M. J. Farrell</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Spring_Meeting_(play)" title="Spring Meeting (play)">Spring Meeting</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Hamilton_(writer)" title="Patrick Hamilton (writer)">Patrick Hamilton</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Gaslight_(play)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaslight (play)">Gaslight</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H.M._Harwood" class="mw-redirect" title="H.M. Harwood">H.M. Harwood</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Innocent_Party" title="The Innocent Party">The Innocent Party</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Esther_McCracken" title="Esther McCracken">Esther McCracken</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Quiet_Wedding_(play)" title="Quiet Wedding (play)">Quiet Wedding</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaj_Munk" title="Kaj Munk">Kaj Munk</a> – <i>Han sidder ved Smeltediglen</i> (He sits by the melting pot)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Pertwee" title="Michael Pertwee">Michael Pertwee</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Death_on_the_Table" title="Death on the Table">Death on the Table</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._B._Priestley" title="J. B. Priestley">J. B. Priestley</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/When_We_Are_Married" title="When We Are Married">When We Are Married</a></i></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gordon_Sherry_(writer)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gordon Sherry (writer) (page does not exist)">Gordon Sherry</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Bare_Idea" title="The Bare Idea">The Bare Idea</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_E._Sherwood" title="Robert E. Sherwood">Robert E. Sherwood</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Abe_Lincoln_in_Illinois_(play)" title="Abe Lincoln in Illinois (play)">Abe Lincoln in Illinois</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dodie_Smith" title="Dodie Smith">Dodie Smith</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Dear_Octopus" title="Dear Octopus">Dear Octopus</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Spender" title="Stephen Spender">Stephen Spender</a> – <i>Trial of a Judge</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lesley_Storm" title="Lesley Storm">Lesley Storm</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Tony_Draws_a_Horse_(play)" title="Tony Draws a Horse (play)">Tony Draws a Horse</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arnold_Sundgaard" title="Arnold Sundgaard">Arnold Sundgaard</a> <ul><li><i>Spirochete: A History</i></li> <li>with <a href="/wiki/Marc_Connelly" title="Marc Connelly">Marc Connelly</a> – <i>Everywhere I Roam</i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rodolfo_Usigli" title="Rodolfo Usigli">Rodolfo Usigli</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/El_gesticulador" title="El gesticulador">El gesticulador</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Ward" title="Theodore Ward">Theodore Ward</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Big_White_Fog" title="Big White Fog">Big White Fog</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thornton_Wilder" title="Thornton Wilder">Thornton Wilder</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Our_Town" title="Our Town">Our Town</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emlyn_Williams" title="Emlyn Williams">Emlyn Williams</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Corn_is_Green" class="mw-redirect" title="The Corn is Green">The Corn is Green</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Williams" title="Tennessee Williams">Tennessee Williams</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Not_About_Nightingales" title="Not About Nightingales">Not About Nightingales</a></i> (written; first performed 1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/W._B._Yeats" title="W. B. Yeats">W. B. Yeats</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Purgatory_(drama)" title="Purgatory (drama)">Purgatory</a></i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Poetry">Poetry</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1938_in_literature&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Poetry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/1938_in_poetry" title="1938 in poetry">1938 in poetry</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Kreymborg" title="Alfred Kreymborg">Alfred Kreymborg</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Planets:_A_Modern_Allegory" title="The Planets: A Modern Allegory">The Planets: A Modern Allegory</a></i> (radio play in verse)</li> <li>Mary Pettibone Poole – <i><a href="/wiki/A_Glass_Eye_at_a_Keyhole" title="A Glass Eye at a Keyhole">A Glass Eye at a Keyhole</a></i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Non-fiction">Non-fiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1938_in_literature&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Non-fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Crane_Brinton" title="Crane Brinton">Crane Brinton</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Anatomy_of_Revolution" title="The Anatomy of Revolution">The Anatomy of Revolution</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hall_Caine" title="Hall Caine">Hall Caine</a> (died 1931) – <i>Life of Christ</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyril_Connolly" title="Cyril Connolly">Cyril Connolly</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Enemies_of_Promise" title="Enemies of Promise">Enemies of Promise</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Faber" title="Geoffrey Faber">Geoffrey Faber</a> – <i>The Romance of a Bookshop 1904–1938</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Newton_Flew" title="Robert Newton Flew">Robert Newton Flew</a> – <i>Jesus and His Church. A study of the idea of the Ecclesia in the New Testament</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Innes_Fripp" title="Edgar Innes Fripp">Edgar Innes Fripp</a> (died 1931) – <i>Shakespeare, Man and Artist</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elie_Hal%C3%A9vy" class="mw-redirect" title="Elie Halévy">Elie Halévy</a> – <i>The Era of Tyrannies</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johan_Huizinga" title="Johan Huizinga">Johan Huizinga</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Homo_Ludens" title="Homo Ludens">Homo Ludens</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agnes_Hunt" title="Agnes Hunt">Agnes Hunt</a> – <i>This Is My Life</i> (autobiography of pioneer orthopedic nurse)<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._L._R._James" title="C. L. R. James">C. L. R. James</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Black_Jacobins:_Toussaint_L%27Ouverture_and_the_San_Domingo_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution">The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claude_Scudamore_Jarvis" title="Claude Scudamore Jarvis">Claude Scudamore Jarvis</a> – <i>Desert and Delta. An account of modern Egypt</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jomo_Kenyatta" title="Jomo Kenyatta">Jomo Kenyatta</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Facing_Mount_Kenya" title="Facing Mount Kenya">Facing Mount Kenya</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anne_Morrow_Lindbergh" title="Anne Morrow Lindbergh">Anne Morrow Lindbergh</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Listen!_The_Wind" title="Listen! The Wind">Listen! The Wind</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_McAlmon" title="Robert McAlmon">Robert McAlmon</a> – <i>Being Geniuses Together, 1920–1930</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Mann" title="Thomas Mann">Thomas Mann</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Coming_Victory_of_Democracy" title="The Coming Victory of Democracy">The Coming Victory of Democracy</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Homage_to_Catalonia" title="Homage to Catalonia">Homage to Catalonia</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nichita_Smochin%C4%83" title="Nichita Smochină">Nichita Smochină</a> – <i>Republica Moldovenească a Sovietelor</i> (The Moldavian Republic of Soviets)<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derek_A._Traversi" title="Derek A. Traversi">Derek A. Traversi</a> – <i>An Approach to Shakespeare</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._G._Wells" title="H. G. Wells">H. G. Wells</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/World_Brain" title="World Brain">World Brain</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virginia_Woolf" title="Virginia Woolf">Virginia Woolf</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Three_Guineas" title="Three Guineas">Three Guineas</a></i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Births">Births</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1938_in_literature&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Births"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_2" title="January 2">January 2</a> – <a href="/wiki/Hans_Herbj%C3%B8rnsrud" title="Hans Herbjørnsrud">Hans Herbjørnsrud</a>, Norwegian short story writer (died <a href="/wiki/2023_in_literature" title="2023 in literature">2023</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_5" title="January 5">January 5</a> – <a href="/wiki/Ng%C5%A9g%C4%A9_wa_Thiong%27o" title="Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o">Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o</a> (also known as James Ngigi), Kenyan novelist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_6" title="January 6">January 6</a> – <a href="/wiki/Mario_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Cobos" title="Mario Rodríguez Cobos">Mario Rodríguez Cobos</a> ("Silo"), Argentine author and spiritualist (died <a href="/wiki/2010_in_literature" title="2010 in literature">2010</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_20" title="January 20">January 20</a> – <a href="/wiki/Liz_Calder" title="Liz Calder">Liz Calder</a>, English publisher and editor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_7" title="February 7">February 7</a> – <a href="/wiki/Andrea_Newman" title="Andrea Newman">Andrea Newman</a>, English novelist and screenwriter (died <a href="/wiki/2019_in_literature" title="2019 in literature">2019</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_9" title="February 9">February 9</a> – <a href="/wiki/Jovette_Marchessault" title="Jovette Marchessault">Jovette Marchessault</a>, French Canadian writer and artist (died <a href="/wiki/2012_in_literature" title="2012 in literature">2012</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_12" title="February 12">February 12</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Judy_Blume" title="Judy Blume">Judy Blume</a>, American children's author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tor_Obrestad" title="Tor Obrestad">Tor Obrestad</a>, Norwegian novelist, poet and documentary writer (died <a href="/wiki/2020_in_literature" title="2020 in literature">2020</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_22" title="February 22">February 22</a> – <a href="/wiki/Ishmael_Reed" title="Ishmael Reed">Ishmael Reed</a>, American poet, essayist and novelist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_1" title="March 1">March 1</a> – <a href="/wiki/Michael_Kurland" title="Michael Kurland">Michael Kurland</a>, American author of sci-fi and detective fiction</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_14" title="March 14">March 14</a> – <a href="/wiki/Eleanor_Bron" title="Eleanor Bron">Eleanor Bron</a>, English humorous writer and actress</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_24" title="March 24">March 24</a> – <a href="/wiki/Ian_Hamilton_(critic)" title="Ian Hamilton (critic)">Ian Hamilton</a>, English critic, biographer and poet (died <a href="/wiki/2001_in_literature" title="2001 in literature">2001</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_27" title="March 27">March 27</a> – <a href="/wiki/Hansj%C3%B6rg_Schneider" title="Hansjörg Schneider">Hansjörg Schneider</a>, Swiss novelist (died <a href="/wiki/2016_in_literature" title="2016 in literature">2016</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_20" title="April 20">April 20</a> – <a href="/wiki/Chiung_Yao" title="Chiung Yao">Chiung Yao</a>, Taiwanese romance novelist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_25" title="April 25">April 25</a> – <a href="/wiki/John_Nagenda" title="John Nagenda">John Nagenda</a>, Ugandan writer and sportsman (died <a href="/wiki/2023_in_literature" title="2023 in literature">2023</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_30" title="April 30">April 30</a> – <a href="/wiki/Larry_Niven" title="Larry Niven">Larry Niven</a>, American sci-fi author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_13" title="May 13">May 13</a> – <a href="/wiki/Norma_Klein" title="Norma Klein">Norma Klein</a>, American author (died <a href="/wiki/1989_in_literature" title="1989 in literature">1989</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_15" title="May 15">May 15</a> – <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Garden" title="Nancy Garden">Nancy Garden</a>, American author (died <a href="/wiki/2014_in_literature" title="2014 in literature">2014</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_16" title="May 16">May 16</a> – <a href="/wiki/Marco_Aurelio_Denegri" title="Marco Aurelio Denegri">Marco Aurelio Denegri</a>, Peruvian literature critic, television host and sexologist (died <a href="/wiki/2018_in_literature" title="2018 in literature">2018</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_25" title="May 25">May 25</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Raymond_Carver" title="Raymond Carver">Raymond Carver</a>, American short-story writer and poet (died <a href="/wiki/1988_in_literature" title="1988 in literature">1988</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Forster" title="Margaret Forster">Margaret Forster</a>, English novelist and biographer (died <a href="/wiki/2016_in_literature" title="2016 in literature">2016</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_26" title="May 26">May 26</a> – <a href="/wiki/Lyudmila_Petrushevskaya" title="Lyudmila Petrushevskaya">Lyudmila Petrushevskaya</a>, Russian novelist and playwright</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_5" title="June 5">June 5</a> – <a href="/wiki/M._K._Wren" title="M. K. Wren">M. K. Wren</a> (Martha Kay Renfroe), American novelist (died <a href="/wiki/2016_in_literature" title="2016 in literature">2016</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_16" title="June 16">June 16</a> – <a href="/wiki/Joyce_Carol_Oates" title="Joyce Carol Oates">Joyce Carol Oates</a>, American novelist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_24" title="June 24">June 24</a> – <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Block" title="Lawrence Block">Lawrence Block</a>, American crime fiction writer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_26" title="June 26">June 26</a> – <a href="/wiki/Maria_Velho_da_Costa" title="Maria Velho da Costa">Maria Velho da Costa</a>, Portuguese writer (died <a href="/wiki/2020_in_literature" title="2020 in literature">2020</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_15" title="July 15">July 15</a> – <a href="/wiki/Josephine_Cox" title="Josephine Cox">Josephine Cox</a>, English novelist (died <a href="/wiki/2020_in_literature" title="2020 in literature">2020</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_19" title="July 19">July 19</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Bethell" class="mw-redirect" title="Nicholas Bethell">Nicholas Bethell</a>, English historian and politician (died <a href="/wiki/2007_in_literature" title="2007 in literature">2007</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dom_Moraes" title="Dom Moraes">Dom Moraes</a>, Indian poet and columnist (died <a href="/wiki/2004_in_literature" title="2004 in literature">2004</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Raworth" title="Tom Raworth">Tom Raworth</a>, English poet (died <a href="/wiki/2017_in_literature" title="2017 in literature">2017</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary-Kay_Wilmers" title="Mary-Kay Wilmers">Mary-Kay Wilmers</a>, American-born editor</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_28" title="July 28">July 28</a> – <a href="/wiki/Robert_Hughes_(critic)" title="Robert Hughes (critic)">Robert Hughes</a>, Australian critic and historian (died <a href="/wiki/2012_in_literature" title="2012 in literature">2012</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_15" title="August 15">August 15</a> – <a href="/wiki/Janusz_Zajdel" title="Janusz Zajdel">Janusz Zajdel</a>, Polish writer (died <a href="/wiki/1985_in_literature" title="1985 in literature">1985</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_21" title="August 21">August 21</a> – <a href="/wiki/Mudrooroo" title="Mudrooroo">Mudrooroo</a> (Colin Johnson), Australian novelist (died <a href="/wiki/2019_in_literature" title="2019 in literature">2019</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_30" title="August 30">August 30</a> – <a href="/wiki/Dorota_Terakowska" title="Dorota Terakowska">Dorota Terakowska</a>, Polish writer and journalist, author of fantasy books for children and young adults (died <a href="/wiki/2004_in_literature" title="2004 in literature">2004</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_3" title="September 3">September 3</a> – <a href="/wiki/Caryl_Churchill" title="Caryl Churchill">Caryl Churchill</a>, English dramatist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_12" title="September 12">September 12</a> – <a href="/wiki/Richard_Booth" title="Richard Booth">Richard Booth</a>, Welsh bookseller (died <a href="/wiki/2019_in_literature" title="2019 in literature">2019</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_15" title="September 15">September 15</a> – <a href="/wiki/Charles_L._Mee" title="Charles L. Mee">Charles L. Mee</a>, American dramatist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_18" title="September 18">September 18</a> – <a href="/wiki/Poornachandra_Tejaswi" title="Poornachandra Tejaswi">Poornachandra Tejaswi</a>, Kannada writer (died <a href="/wiki/2007_in_literature" title="2007 in literature">2007</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_19" title="September 19">September 19</a> – <a href="/wiki/Keorapetse_Kgositsile" title="Keorapetse Kgositsile">Keorapetse Kgositsile</a>, South African Poet Laureate (died <a href="/wiki/2018_in_literature" title="2018 in literature">2018</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_12" title="October 12">October 12</a> – <a href="/wiki/Anne_Perry" title="Anne Perry">Anne Perry</a> (Juliet Marion Hulme), English historical novelist (died <a href="/wiki/2023_in_literature" title="2023 in literature">2023</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_13" title="October 13">October 13</a> – <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Young" title="Hugo Young">Hugo Young</a>, English journalist (died <a href="/wiki/2003_in_literature" title="2003 in literature">2003</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_17" title="October 17">October 17</a> – <a href="/wiki/Les_Murray_(poet)" title="Les Murray (poet)">Les Murray</a>, Australian poet (died <a href="/wiki/2019_in_literature" title="2019 in literature">2019</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_19" title="October 19">October 19</a> – <a href="/wiki/Allan_Massie" title="Allan Massie">Allan Massie</a>, Singapore-born Scottish writer<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_3" title="November 3">November 3</a> – <a href="/wiki/Terrence_McNally" title="Terrence McNally">Terrence McNally</a>, American playwright (died <a href="/wiki/2020_in_literature" title="2020 in literature">2020</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_4" title="November 4">November 4</a> – <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Snowman" title="Daniel Snowman">Daniel Snowman</a>, English non-fiction writer and historian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_14" title="December 14">December 14</a> – <a href="/wiki/Leonardo_Boff" title="Leonardo Boff">Leonardo Boff</a> (Genézio Darci Boff), Brazilian philosopher and theologian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_21" title="December 21">December 21</a> – <a href="/wiki/Frank_Moorhouse" title="Frank Moorhouse">Frank Moorhouse</a>, Australian journalist, author and screenwriter (died <a href="/wiki/2022_in_literature" title="2022 in literature">2022</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_31" title="December 31">December 31</a> – <a href="/wiki/Basudeb_Dasgupta" title="Basudeb Dasgupta">Basudeb Dasgupta</a>, Bengali novelist (died <a href="/wiki/2005_in_literature" title="2005 in literature">2005</a>)</li> <li><i>unknown date</i> – <a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Ruhumbika" title="Gabriel Ruhumbika">Gabriel Ruhumbika</a>, Tanzanian novelist<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Deaths">Deaths</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1938_in_literature&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Deaths"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_4" title="January 4">January 4</a> – <a href="/wiki/Paola_Drigo" title="Paola Drigo">Paola Drigo</a>, Italian writer (born <a href="/wiki/1876_in_literature" title="1876 in literature">1876</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_16" title="January 16">January 16</a> – <a href="/wiki/Sarat_Chandra_Chattopadhyay" title="Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay">Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay</a> (Sarat Chandra Chattergee), Bengali novelist (born <a href="/wiki/1876_in_literature" title="1876 in literature">1876</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_19" title="January 19">January 19</a> – <a href="/wiki/Branislav_Nu%C5%A1i%C4%87" title="Branislav Nušić">Branislav Nušić</a>, Serbian novelist and dramatist (born <a href="/wiki/1864_in_literature" title="1864 in literature">1864</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_29" title="January 29">January 29</a> – <a href="/wiki/Armando_Palacio_Vald%C3%A9s" title="Armando Palacio Valdés">Armando Palacio Valdés</a>, Spanish novelist and critic (born <a href="/wiki/1853_in_literature" title="1853 in literature">1853</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_13" title="February 13">February 13</a> – <a href="/wiki/Mom%C4%8Dilo_Nastasijevi%C4%87" title="Momčilo Nastasijević">Momčilo Nastasijević</a>, Serbian poet, novelist and dramatist (born <a href="/wiki/1894_in_literature" title="1894 in literature">1894</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_6" title="March 6">March 6</a> – <a href="/wiki/Eva_Allen_Alberti" title="Eva Allen Alberti">Eva Allen Alberti</a>, American dramatics teacher (born <a href="/wiki/1856_in_literature" title="1856 in literature">1856</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_27" title="March 27">March 27</a> – <a href="/wiki/Helen_M._Winslow" title="Helen M. Winslow">Helen M. Winslow</a>, American editor, author and publisher (born <a href="/wiki/1851_in_literature" title="1851 in literature">1851</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_31" title="March 31">March 31</a> – <a href="/wiki/Willem_Kloos" title="Willem Kloos">Willem Kloos</a>, Dutch poet and critic (born <a href="/wiki/1859_in_literature" title="1859 in literature">1859</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_19" title="April 19">April 19</a> – Sir <a href="/wiki/Henry_Newbolt" title="Henry Newbolt">Henry Newbolt</a>, English poet (born <a href="/wiki/1862_in_literature" title="1862 in literature">1862</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_21" title="April 21">April 21</a> – Lady <a href="/wiki/Ottoline_Morrell" class="mw-redirect" title="Ottoline Morrell">Ottoline Morrell</a>, English literary hostess (born <a href="/wiki/1873_in_literature" title="1873 in literature">1873</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_26" title="May 26">May 26</a> – <a href="/wiki/James_Forbes_(screenwriter)" class="mw-redirect" title="James Forbes (screenwriter)">James Forbes</a>, Canadian American dramatist and screenwriter (born <a href="/wiki/1871_in_literature" title="1871 in literature">1871</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_9" title="June 9">June 9</a> – <a href="/wiki/Ovid_Densusianu" title="Ovid Densusianu">Ovid Densusianu</a>, Romanian poet, philologist, and literary historian (born <a href="/wiki/1873_in_literature" title="1873 in literature">1873</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_26" title="June 26">June 26</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Weldon_Johnson" title="James Weldon Johnson">James Weldon Johnson</a>, American politician, poet and activist (born <a href="/wiki/1871_in_literature" title="1871 in literature">1871</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._V._Lucas" title="E. V. Lucas">E. V. Lucas</a>, English essayist and biographer, 70</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_21" title="July 21">July 21</a> – <a href="/wiki/Owen_Wister" title="Owen Wister">Owen Wister</a>, American Western fiction writer and historian (born <a href="/wiki/1860_in_literature" title="1860 in literature">1860</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_7" title="August 7">August 7</a> – <a href="/wiki/Konstantin_Stanislavski" title="Konstantin Stanislavski">Konstantin Stanislavski</a>, Russian theatre director (born <a href="/wiki/1863_in_literature" title="1863 in literature">1863</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_26" title="August 26">August 26</a> – <a href="/wiki/Millosh_Gjergj_Nikolla" class="mw-redirect" title="Millosh Gjergj Nikolla">Millosh Gjergj Nikolla</a>, Albanian poet and writer (tuberculosis, born <a href="/wiki/1911_in_literature" title="1911 in literature">1911</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_15" title="September 15">September 15</a> – <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Wolfe" title="Thomas Wolfe">Thomas Wolfe</a>, American novelist (tuberculosis, born <a href="/wiki/1900_in_literature" title="1900 in literature">1900</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_3" title="October 3">October 3</a> – <a href="/wiki/Olivia_Shakespear" title="Olivia Shakespear">Olivia Shakespear</a>, British novelist, playwright and patron of the arts (born 1863)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_27" title="October 27">October 27</a> – <a href="/wiki/Lascelles_Abercrombie" title="Lascelles Abercrombie">Lascelles Abercrombie</a>, English poet and literary critic (born <a href="/wiki/1881_in_literature" title="1881 in literature">1881</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_13" title="December 13">December 13</a> – <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Frazer_Boyle" title="Virginia Frazer Boyle">Virginia Frazer Boyle</a>, American author and poet (born <a href="/wiki/1863_in_literature" title="1863 in literature">1863</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_23" title="December 23">December 23</a> – <a href="/wiki/Robert_Herrick_(novelist)" title="Robert Herrick (novelist)">Robert Herrick</a>, American realist novelist (born <a href="/wiki/1868_in_literature" title="1868 in literature">1868</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_25" title="December 25">December 25</a> – <a href="/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek">Karel Čapek</a>, Czech science fiction author and dramatist (pneumonia, born <a href="/wiki/1890_in_literature" title="1890 in literature">1890</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_27" title="December 27">December 27</a> – <a href="/wiki/Osip_Mandelstam" title="Osip Mandelstam">Osip Mandelstam</a>, Russian poet and essayist (in detention, born <a href="/wiki/1891_in_literature" title="1891 in literature">1891</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1938_in_literature&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Medal_(literary_award)" title="Carnegie Medal (literary award)">Carnegie Medal</a> for <a href="/wiki/Children%27s_literature" title="Children's literature">children's literature</a>: <a href="/wiki/Noel_Streatfeild" title="Noel Streatfeild">Noel Streatfeild</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Circus_Is_Coming" title="The Circus Is Coming">The Circus Is Coming</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawthornden_Prize" title="Hawthornden Prize">Hawthornden Prize</a> – <a href="/wiki/David_Jones_(poet)" class="mw-redirect" title="David Jones (poet)">David Jones</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/In_Parenthesis" title="In Parenthesis">In Parenthesis</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Tait_Black_Memorial_Prize" title="James Tait Black Memorial Prize">James Tait Black Memorial Prize</a> for fiction: <a href="/wiki/C._S._Forester" title="C. S. Forester">C. S. Forester</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/A_Ship_of_the_Line" title="A Ship of the Line">A Ship of the Line</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Flying_Colours_(novel)" title="Flying Colours (novel)">Flying Colours</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Tait_Black_Memorial_Prize" title="James Tait Black Memorial Prize">James Tait Black Memorial Prize</a> for biography: <a href="/wiki/Sir_Edmund_Chambers" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Edmund Chambers">Sir Edmund Chambers</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge" title="Samuel Taylor Coleridge">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newbery_Medal" title="Newbery Medal">Newbery Medal</a> for <a href="/wiki/Children%27s_literature" title="Children's literature">children's literature</a>: <a href="/wiki/Kate_Seredy" title="Kate Seredy">Kate Seredy</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_White_Stag" title="The White Stag">The White Stag</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newdigate_prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Newdigate prize">Newdigate prize</a>: <a href="/wiki/Michael_Thwaites" title="Michael Thwaites">Michael Thwaites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Nobel Prize in literature">Nobel Prize in literature</a>: <a href="/wiki/Pearl_S._Buck" title="Pearl S. Buck">Pearl S. Buck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Drama" title="Pulitzer Prize for Drama">Pulitzer Prize for Drama</a>: <a href="/wiki/Thornton_Wilder" title="Thornton Wilder">Thornton Wilder</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Our_Town" title="Our Town">Our Town</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Poetry" title="Pulitzer Prize for Poetry">Pulitzer Prize for Poetry</a>: <a href="/wiki/Marya_Zaturenska" title="Marya Zaturenska">Marya Zaturenska</a>, <i>Cold Morning Sky</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_the_Novel" class="mw-redirect" title="Pulitzer Prize for the Novel">Pulitzer Prize for the Novel</a>: <a href="/wiki/John_Phillips_Marquand" class="mw-redirect" title="John Phillips Marquand">John Phillips Marquand</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Late_George_Apley" title="The Late George Apley">The Late George Apley</a></i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1938_in_literature&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFBaker2016" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Baker,_Baron_Baker_of_Dorking" title="Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking">Baker, Kenneth</a> (2016). <i>On the Burning of Books</i>. 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