1934 in literature - Definition and Overview

See also: 1933 in literature, other events of 1934, 1935 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• First Flash Gordon comic strip published

• A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh is published.

• Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald is published.

• Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller is published.

New Books

• Appointment in Samarra - John O'Hara
• Call It Sleep - Henry Roth
• Cool Million - Nathaniel West
• The Death Ship - B. Traven
• An Experiment in Autobiography - H. G. Wells
• Frost in May - Antonia White
• A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
• I, Claudius - Robert Graves
• - Cornelia Meigs
• - Zora Neale Hurston
• Lust for Life - Irving Stone
• More Pricks Than Kicks - Samuel Beckett
• Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
• The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain
• Rajah Amar - Leopold Myers
• Une Semaine de Bonte - Max Ernst
• Seven Gothic Tales - Isak Dinesen
• Ship without Sails - Barbara Barclay Carter
• Such is My Beloved - Morley Callaghan
• Tender Is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
• The 12.30 from Croydon - Freeman Wills Crofts

Births

• May 27 - Harlan Ellison, US science-fiction writer.
• August 6 - Piers Anthony, English writer of science fiction and fantasy

Deaths

Awards

• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Cornelia Meigs, Invincible Louisa
• Nobel Prize for literature: Luigi Pirandello.
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Sidney Kingsley, Men in White
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Hillyer: Collected Verse
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Caroline Miller - Lamb in His Bosom