1943 in literature

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See also: 1942 in literature, other events of 1943, 1944 in literature, list of years in literature.

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Events

New books

Adam of the Road - Elizabeth Janet Gray
The Apostle - Sholem Asch
Being and Nothingness - Jean-Paul Sartre
Citizen Tom Paine - Howard Fast
Claudius the God - Robert Graves
Earth's Last Citadel - C. L. Moore
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Gremlins - Roald Dahl
The Lady In The Lake - Raymond Chandler
The Last of Summer - Kate O'Brien
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Nature and Destiny of Man - Reinhold Niebuhr
Mr. Mirakel - E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Ship - C.S. Forester
The Raven - Chancellor Williams
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
Victoria Grandolet - Henry Bellamann
The White Face - Carl Offord

Births

January 4 - Doris Kearns Goodwin, writer
January 11 - Jim Hightower, radio host, author
February 15 - Elke Heidenreich, journalist and writer
February 18 - Graeme Garden, writer, comedian, actor
February 22 - Terry Eagleton, critic
March 26 - Bob Woodward, journalist
April 30 - Paul Jennings, children's author
May 8 - Pat Barker, Booker Prize-winning novelist
June 15 - Xaviera Hollander, Happy Hooker author
December 9 - Joanna Trollope, novelist
date unknown - L. E. Modesitt, Jr., fantasy and science fiction writer
date unknown - Gwynne Dyer, journalist
date unknown - Max Clifford, publicist
date unknown - Simon Jenkins, journalist
date unknown - Charles Murray, Bell Curve author
date unknown - Sheila Rowbotham, feminist author
date unknown - Christopher Priest, science fiction author

Deaths

January 9 - R. G. Collingwood, philosopher and historian
March 10 - Lawrence Binyon, poet and scholar
April 30 - Beatrice Webb
May - Arthur Mee, editor of the Children's Encyclopaedia
August 24 - Simone Weil, philosopher
October 7 - Radclyffe Hall, controversial author
December 22 - Beatrix Potter, Children's author
date unknown - Guido Mazzoni, poet
date unknown - F. M. Cornford, poet

Awards

Newbery Medal for children's literature: Janet Elizabeth Gray, Adam of the Road
Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Frost: A Witness Tree
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Upton Sinclair - Dragon's Teeth

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