1932 in literature - Definition and Overview

See also: 1931 in literature, other events of 1932, 1933 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is published.

New Books

• 1919 - John Dos Passos
• Black Mischief - Evelyn Waugh
• Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
• A Broken Journey - Morley Callaghan
• Burning Bush - Sigrid Undset
• Christmas Pudding - Nancy Mitford
• - Rudolph Fisher
• The Fortress - Hugh Walpole
• Guys and Dolls - Damon Runyon
• Infants Of The Spring - Wallace Thurman
• Josephus - Lion Feuchtwanger
• Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
• Le Pur et L'Impur - Colette
• Light in August - William Faulkner
• Mutiny on the Bounty - Charles Norman Hall
• The Richest Woman in Town - Henry Bellamann
• Selected Essays, 1917-1932 - T. S. Eliot
• The Sheltered Life - Ellen Glasgow
• The Son Avenger - Sigrid Undset
• Sons - Pearl S. Buck
• Tobacco Road - Erskine Caldwell
• Waterless Mountain - Laura Adams Armer

Births

• January 18 - Robert Anton Wilson, author
• February 7 - Gay Talese, author
• October 27 - Sylvia Plath, poet

Deaths

Awards

• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Laura Adams Armer, Waterless Mountain
• Nobel Prize for literature: John Galsworthy
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Ira Gershwin, Of Thee I Sing
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: George Dillon: The Flowering Stone
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Pearl S. Buck: The Good Earth