1941 in literature
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See also: 1940 in literature, other events of 1941, 1942 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Frank Herbert marries Flora Parkinson.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished work, The Last Tycoon, is edited and published by Edmund Wilson.
New books
- Blood On The Forge - William Attaway
- Call It Courage - Armstrong Sperry
- Curious George - H.A. Rey and Margret Rey
- A Curtain of Green - Eudora Welty
- Death Comes as the End - Agatha Christie
- Herself Surprised - Joyce Cary
- The Keys of the Kingdom - A.J. Cronin
- Make Way for Ducklings - Robert McCloskey
- Mildred Pierce - James M. Cain
- The Real Life of Sebastian Knight - Vladimir Nabokov
- The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
- The Shy Plutocrat - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- The Song of Bernadette - Franz Werfel
- Under the Cottonwood - Katheryn Campbell Graham
- Up at the Villa - W. Somerset Maugham
- What Makes Sammy Run? - Budd Schulberg
- The Wind From Nowhere - Oscar Micheaux
Births
- March 13 - Donella Meadows, Limits to Growth author
- April 10 - Paul Theroux, novelist and travel writer
- May 19 - Nora Ephron, novelist and screenwriter
- June 5 - Spalding Gray, screenwriter and dramatist
- June 27 - James P. Hogan, science fiction author
- October 2 - John Sinclair, poet
- October 4 - Anne Rice, horror/fantasy writer
- October 13 - John Snow, cricketer and poet
- October 25 - Anne Tyler, novelist
- date unknown - Pepetela, novelist
- date unknown - Miles Kington, journalist
Deaths
- January 4 - Henri Bergson, writer
- January 6 - F. R. Higgins, poet
- January 13 - James Joyce, writer
- January 23 - John Oxenham, novelist and poet
- February 7 - Banjo Paterson, poet
- February 9 - Elizabeth von Arnim, novelist
- March 28 - Virginia Woolf, author
- June 1 - Hugh Walpole, novelist
- June 15 - Evelyn Underhill, poet
- August 7 - Rabindranath Tagore, author
- November 18 – Émile Nelligan, poet
Awards
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Armstrong Sperry, Call It Courage
- Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Robert E. Sherwood, There Shall Be No Night
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Leonard Bacon: Sunderland Capture
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: no award given