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The year 1937 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Contents |
Events
- January 9 - The first issue of Look magazine goes on sale in the United States.
- Thomas Quinn Curtiss meets Klaus Mann.
New books
- Eric Ambler - Uncommon Danger
- Georges Bernanos - Diary of a Country Priest
- Morley Callaghan - More Joy in Heaven
- John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson" - The Ten Teacups
- Agatha Christie - Death on the Nile
- Murray Constantine - Swastika Night
- A. J. Cronin - The Citadel
- Isak Dinesen - Out of Africa
- Zona Gale - Light Woman
- Witold Gombrowicz - Ferdydurke
- Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Meyer Levin - The Old Bunch
- Cameron McCabe - The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor
- Elliot Paul - Life and Death of a Spanish Town
- Ellery Queen - The Door Between
- Ruth Sawyer - Roller Skates
- Olaf Stapledon - Star Maker
- John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
- Rex Stout - The Red Box
- J. R. R. Tolkien - The Hobbit
- Waters Edward Turpin - These Low Grounds
- Virginia Woolf - The Years
New drama
Non-fiction
- Hilaire Belloc - The Crusades: the World's Debate
- Alf K. Berle and L. Sprague de Camp - Inventions and Their Management
- Napoleon Hill - Think and Grow Rich
- Walter Lippmann - The Good Society
- Eric Partridge - A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Births
- January 1 - John Fuller, poet
- January 7 - Ian La Frenais, TV comedy writer
- January 9 - Judith Krantz, bestselling novelist
- February 21 - Jilly Cooper, novelist and journalist
- April 29 - Jill Paton Walsh, novelist
- May 8 - Thomas Pynchon, novelist
- May 13 - Roger Zelazny, American writer of fantasy and science fiction
- May 13 - Roch Carrier, novelist and short-story writer
- June 16 - Erich Segal, Love Story author
- July 3 - Tom Stoppard, dramatist
- August 5 - Carla Lane, comedy writer
- September 5 - Dick Clement, TV comedy writer
- November 17 - Peter Cook, comedian, satirist and writer
- December 3 - Binod Bihari Verma, Maithili literateur
- date unknown - David F. Case, American writer
- date unknown - Richard Ingrams, editor
- date unknown - Jan Karon, novelist
- date unknown - Roger McGough, poet
Deaths
- February 19 - Horacio Quiroga, short story writer
- March 15 - H. P. Lovecraft, horror writer
- March 25 - John Drinkwater, poet and novelist
- June 19 - J. M. Barrie, novelist and dramatist
- August 11 - Edith Wharton, writer
- September 13 - Ellis Parker Butler, novelist
- October 22 - Nakahara Chuya, poet
- October 31 - Ralph Connor, novelist
- December 24 - Elizabeth Haldane
- December 26 - Ivor Gurney, war poet
- December 29 - Don Marquis, poet
- date unknown
- Frederic Taber Cooper, editor
- Gerald Duckworth, publisher
- Edward Garnett, critic
- W. F. Harvey, short story writer
- William F. Lloyd, newspaper editor
- H. C. McNeile ("Sapper"), "Bulldog Drummond" novelist
Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Neil M. Gunn, Highland River
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Lord Eustace Percy, John Knox
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Ruth Sawyer, Roller Skates
- Nobel Prize for literature: Roger Martin du Gard
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman, You Can't Take It With You
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Frost: A Further Range
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind
- King's Gold Medal for Poetry: W. H. Auden