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A Night of Serious Drinking
A Night of Serious Drinking (1938) is an allegorical novel by the French surrealist writer René Daumal detailing what is ostensibly an extremely simple plot in which the narrator overly imbibes alcohol; what unfolds however is a novel which explores the extremities of heaven and hell.
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A Ship of the Line
A Ship of the Line is an historical seafaring novel by C. S. Forester.
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A Short History of the World (H. G. Wells)
A Short History of the World is a period-piece non-fictional historic work by English author H. G. Wells first published by Cassell & Co, Ltd Publishing in 1922.
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois (play)
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a play written by the American playwright Robert E. Sherwood in 1938.
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Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (born Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer.
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Agnes Hunt
Dame Agnes Gwendoline Hunt DBE RRC (31 December 1866 – 24 July 1948) was a British nurse, who is generally recognised as the first orthopaedic nurse.
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Alamut (Bartol novel)
Alamut is a novel by Vladimir Bartol, first published in 1938 in Slovenian, dealing with the story of Hassan-i Sabbah and the Hashshashin, and named after their Alamut fortress.
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Albert Cohen
Albert Cohen (August 16, 1895, Corfu, Greece – October 17, 1981, Geneva, Switzerland) was a Greek-born Romaniote Jewish Swiss novelist who wrote in French.
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Alfred Kreymborg
Alfred Francis Kreymborg (December 10, 1883 – August 14, 1966) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, literary editor and anthologist.
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All This, and Heaven Too
All This, and Heaven Too is a 1940 American drama film made by Warner Bros.-First National Pictures, produced and directed by Anatole Litvak with Hal B. Wallis as executive producer.
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Allan Massie
Allan Johnstone Massie CBE (born 1938) is a Scottish journalist, columnist, sports writer and novelist.
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Spencer Lindbergh (née Morrow; June 22, 1906 – February 7, 2001) was an American author, aviator, and the wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh.
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Anne Perry
Anne Perry (born Juliet Marion Hulme; 28 October 1938) is an English author of historical detective fiction, best known for her Thomas Pitt and William Monk series.
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Anthem (novella)
Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Ayn Rand, written in 1937 and first published in 1938 in the United Kingdom.
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Appointment with Death
Appointment with Death is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 2 May 1938 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.
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April 19
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April 21
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April 29
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Armando Palacio Valdés
Armando Palacio Valdés (October 4, 1853January 29, 1938) was a Spanish novelist and critic.
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August 21
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August 26
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August 7
This day marks the approximate midpoint of summer in the Northern Hemisphere and of winter in the Southern Hemisphere (starting the season at the June solstice).
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Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; – March 6, 1982) was a Russian-American writer and philosopher.
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Élie Halévy
Élie Halévy (6 September 1870 – 21 August 1937) was a French philosopher and historian who wrote studies of the British utilitarians, the book of essays Era of Tyrannies, and a history of Britain from 1815 to 1914 that influenced British historiography.
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B. Traven
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Basudeb Dasgupta
Basudeb Dasgupta (31 December 1938 – 31 August 2005), a Bengali novelist and short-story writer (associated with the Hungry generation movement), is considered as one of the most significant avant-gardes and controversial figures in the history of Bengali literature.
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Bertolt Brecht
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.
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Big White Fog
Big White Fog is a play by American playwright Theodore Ward and his first major work.
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Bram Stoker
Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula.
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Branislav Nušić
Branislav Nušić (Бранислав Нушић,; – 19 January 1938) was a Serbian playwright, satirist, essayist, novelist and founder of modern rhetoric in Serbia.
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Brighton Rock (novel)
Brighton Rock is a novel by Graham Greene, published in 1938 and later adapted for film in 1947 and 2010.
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C. L. R. James
Cyril Lionel Robert James (4 January 1901 – 31 May 1989), who sometimes wrote under the pen-name J. R. Johnson, was an Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist.
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C. S. Forester
Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966), known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C. S." Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare such as the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic wars.
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C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist.
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Can Ladies Kill?
Can Ladies Kill? is a crime novel by British author Peter Cheyney first published in 1938 by William Collins, Sons & Co. Ltd.
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Capricornia (novel)
Capricornia (1938) is the debut novel by Xavier Herbert.
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Caps for Sale
Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business is a children's picture book, written and illustrated by Esphyr Slobodkina and published by W. R. Scott in 1940.
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Carnegie Medal (literary award)
The Carnegie Medal is a British literary award that annually recognises one outstanding new book for children or young adults.
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Caryl Churchill
Caryl Churchill (born 3 September 1938, London) is a British playwright known for dramatising the abuses of power, for her use of non-naturalistic techniques, and for her exploration of sexual politics and feminist themes.
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Casey Jones (play)
Casey Jones is a 1938 dramatic play by Robert Ardrey.
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Cause for Alarm (novel)
Cause for Alarm is a novel by Eric Ambler first published in 1938.
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CBS Radio
CBS Radio was a radio broadcasting company and radio network operator owned by CBS Corporation, and consolidated radio station groups owned by CBS and Westinghouse Broadcasting/Group W since the 1920s and Infinity Broadcasting since the 1970s.
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Charles L. Mee
Charles L. Mee (born September 15, 1938) is an American playwright, historian and author known for his collage-like style of playwriting, which makes use of radical reconstructions of found texts.
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Children's literature
Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are enjoyed by children.
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Claire Huchet Bishop
Claire Huchet Bishop (30 December 1898 – 13 March 1993) was a Swiss-born American children's writer and librarian.
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Claude Scudamore Jarvis
Major Claude Scudamore Jarvis CMG OBE (20 July 1879 – 8 December 1953) was a British colonial governor.
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Clayton Rawson
Clayton Rawson (August 15, 1906 – March 1, 1971) was an American mystery writer, editor, and amateur magician.
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Count Belisarius
Count Belisarius is a historical novel by Robert Graves, first published in 1938, recounting the life of the Byzantine general Belisarius (AD 500–565).
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Cyril Connolly
Cyril Vernon Connolly (10 September 1903 – 26 November 1974) was an English literary critic and writer.
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Daniel Snowman
Daniel Snowman (born 4 November 1938) is a British writer, lecturer and broadcaster on social and cultural history.
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Daphne du Maurier
Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, (13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English author and playwright.
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David Jones (artist-poet)
Walter David Jones CH, CBE (known as David Jones, 1 November 1895 – 28 October 1974) was both a painter and one of the first-generation British modernist poets.
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Dear Octopus
Dear Octopus is a comedy by the playwright and novelist Dodie Smith.
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Death from a Top Hat
Death from a Top Hat (1938) is a locked-room mystery novel written by Clayton Rawson.
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Death in Five Boxes
Death in Five Boxes is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), who published it under the name of Carter Dickson.
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December 14
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December 21
In the Northern Hemisphere, December 21 is usually the shortest day of the year and is sometimes regarded as the first day of winter.
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December 23
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December 24
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December 25
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December 27
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December 31
It is known by a collection of names including: Saint Sylvester's Day, New Year's Eve or Old Years Day/Night, as the following day is New Year's Day.
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December 9
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Dodie Smith
Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith (3 May 1896 – 24 November 1990) was an English children's novelist and playwright, known best for the novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956).
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Dom Moraes
Dominic Francis "Dom" Moraes (19 July 1938 – 2 June 2004) was an Indian writer and poet who wrote in the English language.
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Dornach
Dornach (Swiss German: Dornech) is a municipality in the district of Dorneck in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
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Dracula
Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.
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Dynasty of Death
Dynasty of Death was the debut novel of the Anglo-American writer Taylor Caldwell (1900–1985).
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E. K. Chambers
Sir Edmund Kerchever Chambers, (16 March 1866 – 21 January 1954), usually cited as E. K. Chambers, was an English literary critic and Shakespearean scholar.
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E. V. Lucas
Edward Verrall Lucas, CH (11/12 June 1868 – 26 June 1938) was an English humorist, essayist, playwright, biographer, publisher, poet, novelist, short story writer and editor.
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Edgar Innes Fripp
Edgar Innes Fripp (27 November 1861 – 9 November 1931) was a Unitarian minister and English antiquarian who specialized in Shakespearean research in the archives of Stratford-upon-Avon, and the father of the artist Paul Fripp.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American fiction writer best known for his celebrated and prolific output in the adventure and science-fiction genres.
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El gesticulador
El gesticulador (The Impostor) is a 1938 play by Mexican dramatist Rodolfo Usigli.
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Eleanor Bron
Eleanor Bron (born 14 March 1938) is an English stage, film and television actress, and an author.
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Eleanor Graham
Eleanor Graham (born 9 January 1896 in Walthamstow, England; died 8 March 1984 in London) was a book editor and children's book author.
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Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen, CBE (7 June 1899 – 22 February 1973) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer, notable for some of the best fiction about life in wartime London.
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Ellery Queen
Ellery Queen is a crime fiction house name created by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee, and later used by other authors under Dannay and Lee's supervision.
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Emilio Lussu
Emilio Lussu (December 4, 1890 – March 5, 1975) was an Italian soldier, politician and a writer.
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Emlyn Williams
George Emlyn Williams, CBE (26 November 1905 – 25 September 1987), known as Emlyn Williams, was a Welsh writer, dramatist and actor.
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Enemies of Promise
Enemies of Promise is a critical and autobiographical work written by Cyril Connolly first published in 1938.
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Enid Blyton
Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was an English children's writer whose books have been among the world's best-sellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies.
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Eric Ambler
Eric Clifford Ambler OBE (28 June 1909 – 22 October 1998) was an influential British author of thrillers, in particular spy novels, who introduced a new realism to the genre.
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Eric Knight
Eric Mowbray Knight (April 10, 1897 – January 15, 1943) was an English novelist and screenwriter, who is mainly known for his 1940 novel Lassie Come-Home, which introduced the fictional collie Lassie.
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Esphyr Slobodkina
Esphyr Slobodkina (September 22, 1908 – July 21, 2002) was a popular artist, author, and illustrator, best known for her classic children's picture book Caps for Sale.
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Esther McCracken
Esther McCracken (née Armstrong, 1902–1971) was a British actress and playwright.
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Evelyn Waugh
Arthur Evelyn St.
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Facing Mount Kenya
Facing Mount Kenya, first published in 1938, is an anthropological study of the people of the Kikuyu ethnicity of central Kenya.
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February 12
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February 13
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February 21
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February 22
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February 9
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Flying Colours (novel)
Flying Colours is a Horatio Hornblower novel by C. S. Forester, originally published 1938 as the third in the series, but now eighth by internal chronology.
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Frank Moorhouse
Frank Moorhouse (born 21 December 1938) is an Australian writer.
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Gabriel Ruhumbika
Gabriel Ruhumbika (born 1938) is a Tanzanian novelist, short story writer, translator and academic.
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Gabriele D'Annunzio
General Gabriele D'Annunzio, Prince of Montenevoso, Duke of Gallese (12 March 1863 – 1 March 1938), sometimes spelled d'Annunzio, was an Italian writer, poet, journalist, playwright and soldier during World War I. He occupied a prominent place in Italian literature from 1889 to 1910 and later political life from 1914 to 1924.
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Gale Wilhelm
Gale Wilhelm (April 26, 1908 – July 11, 1991) was an American writer most noted for two books that featured lesbian themes written in the 1930s: We Too Are Drifting and Torchlight to Valhalla.
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Gas Light
Gas Light (known in the United States as Angel Street) is a 1938 play by the British dramatist Patrick Hamilton.
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Geoffrey Faber
Sir Geoffrey Cust Faber (23 August 1889, Great Malvern – 31 March 1961) was a British academic, publisher, and poet.
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George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism and outspoken support of democratic socialism.
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Georges Simenon
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer.
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Goethe's Faust
Faust is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two.
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Goetheanum
The Goetheanum, located in Dornach, Switzerland, is the world center for the anthroposophical movement.
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Graciliano Ramos
Graciliano Ramos de Oliveira (October 27, 1892 – March 20, 1953) was a Brazilian modernist writer, politician and journalist.
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Graham Greene
Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991), better known by his pen name Graham Greene, was an English novelist regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
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H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells.
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Hall Caine
Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine (14 May 1853 – 31 August 1931), usually known as Hall Caine, was a British novelist, dramatist, short story writer, poet and critic of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
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Hansjörg Schneider
Hansjörg Schneider (born 27 March 1938) is a Swiss writer and dramatist known for occasionally using Mundart or Swiss dialect.
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Hawthornden Prize
The Hawthornden Prize is a British literary award that was established in 1919 by Alice Warrender.
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Henry Miller
Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American writer, expatriated in Paris at his flourishing.
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Henry Newbolt
Sir Henry John Newbolt, CH (6 June 1862 – 19 April 1938) was an English poet, novelist and historian.
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Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Hercule Poirot's Christmas is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 19 December 1938The Times Literary Supplement, 17 December 1938 (p. 805) (although the first edition is copyright dated 1939).
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Homage to Catalonia
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish Civil War.
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Hugo Young
Hugo John Smelter Young (13 October 1938 – 22 September 2003) was a British journalist and columnist and senior political commentator at The Guardian.
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Ian Hamilton (critic)
Robert Ian Hamilton (24 March 1938 – 27 December 2001) was a British literary critic, reviewer, biographer, poet, magazine editor and publisher.
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Invitation to a Beheading
Invitation to a Beheading (lit) is a novel by Russian American author Vladimir Nabokov.
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Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Scott Reed (born February 22, 1938) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, songwriter, playwright, editor and publisher, who is known for his satirical works challenging American political culture.
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J. B. Priestley
John Boynton Priestley, OM (13 September 1894 – 14 August 1984), known by his pen name J.B. Priestley, was an English novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, social commentator and broadcaster.
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James Forbes (screenwriter)
James Gerrie Forbes (September 2, 1871 – May 26, 1938) was a Canadian playwright who worked as a Hollywood movie screenwriter.
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James Tait Black Memorial Prize
The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are literary prizes awarded for literature written in the English language.
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James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871June 26, 1938) was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist.
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Jane Bowles
Jane Bowles (born Jane Sydney Auer; February 22, 1917 – May 4, 1973) was an American writer and playwright.
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January 16
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January 19
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January 20
In the ancient astronomy, it is the cusp day between Capricorn and Aquarius.
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January 29
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January 4
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January 5
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Jean Anouilh
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic.
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Joan Kahn
Joan Kahn (April 13, 1914 – October 12, 1994) was a New York City-based author, anthologist, and editor, widely regarded as the preeminent mystery/suspense editor of her time.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman.
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John Dickson Carr
John Dickson Carr (November 30, 1906 – February 27, 1977) was an American author of detective stories, who also published using the pseudonyms Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson and Roger Fairbairn.
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John Dos Passos
John Roderigo Dos Passos (January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was an American novelist and artist active in the first half of the twentieth century.
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John F. C. Westerman
John Francis Cyril Westerman (born March 1901, died 1991) was an English author of children's literature.
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John O'Hara
John Henry O'Hara (January 31, 1905 – April 11, 1970) was an American writer who earned his early literary reputation for short stories and later became a best-selling novelist before the age of 30 with Appointment in Samarra and Butterfield 8.
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John P. Marquand
John Phillips Marquand (November 10, 1893 – July 16, 1960) was an American writer.
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John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. --> (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author.
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Jomo Kenyatta
Jomo Kenyatta (– 22 August 1978) was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964 and then as its first President from 1964 to his death in 1978.
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Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language literature.
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Joseph Roth
Joseph Roth, born Moses Joseph Roth (2 September 1894 – 27 May 1939), was an Austrian-Jewish journalist and novelist, best known for his family saga Radetzky March (1932), about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, his novel of Jewish life, Job (1930), and his seminal essay "Juden auf Wanderschaft" (1927; translated into English in The Wandering Jews), a fragmented account of the Jewish migrations from eastern to western Europe in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution.
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Jovette Marchessault
Jovette Marchessault (February 9, 1938 – December 31, 2012).
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Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer.
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Judy Blume
Judy Blume (born Judith Sussman; February 12, 1938) is an American writer known for children's and young adult (YA) fiction.
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Julien Gracq
Julien Gracq (27 July 1910 – 22 December 2007; born Louis Poirier in Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, in the French département of Maine-et-Loire) was a French writer.
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July 11
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July 19
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July 28
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June 16
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June 24
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June 26
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June 9
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Kaj Munk
Kaj Harald Leininger Munk (commonly called Kaj Munk) (13 January 1898 – 4 January 1944) was a Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor, known for his cultural engagement and his martyrdom during the Occupation of Denmark of World War II.
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Karel Čapek
Karel Čapek (9 January 1890 – 25 December 1938) was a Czech writer of the early 20th century.
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Kate O'Brien (novelist)
Kate O'Brien (3 December 1897 – 13 August 1974) was an Irish novelist and playwright.
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Kate Seredy
Kate Seredy (November 10, 1899 – March 7, 1975) was a Hungarian-born writer and illustrator of children's books.
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Konstantin Stanislavski
Konstantin Sergeievich Stanislavski (né Alexeiev; p; 7 August 1938) was a seminal Russian theatre practitioner.
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L'Histoire de Tobie et de Sara
L’Histoire de Tobie et de Sara is a three acts theatre play by Paul Claudel.
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Lady Ottoline Morrell
Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Morrell (16 June 1873 – 21 April 1938) was an English aristocrat and society hostess.
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Larry Niven
Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938) is an American science fiction writer.
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Lascelles Abercrombie
Lascelles Abercrombie, FBA (9 January 1881 – 27 October 1938) was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets".
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Lassie Come Home
Lassie Come Home is a 1943 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Technicolor feature film starring Roddy McDowall and canine actor, Pal, in a story about the profound bond between Yorkshire boy Joe Carraclough and his rough collie, Lassie.
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Lawrence Block
Lawrence Block (born June 24, 1938) is an American crime writer best known for two long-running New York–set series about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and the gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr.
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Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence George Durrell (27 February 1912 – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer.
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Leonardo Boff
Leonardo Boff (born December 14, 1938), born as Genézio Darci Boff, is a Brazilian theologian and writer, known for his active support for liberation theology.
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Les Murray (poet)
Leslie Allan "Les" Murray AO (born 17 October 1938) is an Australian poet, anthologist and critic.
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Listen! The Wind
Listen! The Wind is a 1938 book by the American writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
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Liz Calder
Liz Calder (born 20 January 1938) is an English publisher and book editor.
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Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
Lyudmila Stefanovna Petrushevskaya (Людмила Стефановна Петрушевская; born 26 May 1938) is a Russian writer, novelist and playwright.
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M. K. Wren
Martha Kay Renfroe (1938 – August 20, 2016) was an Oregon writer, author of mystery and science fiction under the pen name M.K. Wren.
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Manhattan
Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.
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March 1
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March 14
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March 24
March 24th is the 365th and last day of the year in many European implementations of the Julian calendar.
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March 27
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March 7
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Margaret Forster
Margaret Forster (25 May 1938 – 8 February 2016) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and literary critic.
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Margery Allingham
Margery Louise Allingham (20 May 1904 – 30 June 1966) was an English writer of detective fiction, best remembered for her "golden age" stories featuring gentleman sleuth Albert Campion.
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953); accessed December 8, 2014.
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Marriage in Heaven
Marriage in Heaven is a 1938 novel by the Romanian writer Mircea Eliade.
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Marya Zaturenska
Marya Zaturenska (September 12, 1902 – January 19, 1982) was an American lyric poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1938.
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May 13
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May 25
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May 26
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Michael Kurland
Michael Joseph Kurland (born March 1, 1938) is an American author, best known for his works of science fiction and detective fiction.
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Michael Thwaites
Michael Rayner Thwaites, AO (30 May 1915 – 1 November 2005) was an Australian academic, poet, and intelligence officer.
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Millosh Gjergj Nikolla
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Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade (– April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago.
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Molly Keane
Molly Keane (20 July 1904 – 22 April 1996),Who's Who 1987 Mary Nesta Skrine, and who also wrote as M. J. Farrell, was an Irish novelist and playwright.
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Momčilo Nastasijević
Momčilo Nastasijević (23 September 1894 – 13 February 1938) was a Serbian poet, novelist and dramatist born in Gornji Milanovac in Serbia, and whose work was issued during the literary epoch between the two world wars.
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Mudrooroo
Colin Thomas Johnson (born 21 August 1938), better known by his nom de plume Mudrooroo, is a novelist, poet, essayist and playwright.
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Murder at the New York World's Fair
Murder at the New York World's Fair is a novel that was published in 1938 by Phoebe Atwood Taylor writing as Freeman Dana.
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Murphy (novel)
Murphy, first published in 1938, is an avant-garde novel as well as the third work of prose fiction by the Irish author and dramatist Samuel Beckett.
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Muslim
A Muslim (مُسلِم) is someone who follows or practices Islam, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion.
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Nailcruncher
Nailcruncher (Mangeclous) is a 1938 novel by the Swiss writer Albert Cohen.
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Nausea (novel)
Nausea (La Nausée) is a philosophical novel by the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, published in 1938.
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Newbery Medal
The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association (ALA).
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Newdigate Prize
Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize, more commonly the Newdigate Prize, is awarded to students of the University of Oxford for the Best Composition in English verse by an undergraduate who has been admitted to Oxford within the previous four years.
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (born 5 January 1938) is a Kenyan writer, formerly working in English and now working in Gikuyu.
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Nicholas Bethell, 4th Baron Bethell
Nicholas William Bethell, 4th Baron Bethell (19 July 1938 – 8 September 2007) was a British politician.
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Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that has been awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" (original Swedish: "den som inom litteraturen har producerat det mest framstående verket i en idealisk riktning").
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Noel Streatfeild
Mary Noel Streatfeild OBE (24 December 1895 –11 September 1986), was an English author, best known for children's books including the "Shoes" books, which were not a series.
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Norma Klein
Norma Klein (May 13, 1938 – April 25, 1989) was a US children's book author.
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Norman Lindsay
Norman Alfred William Lindsay (22 February 1879 – 21 November 1969) was an Australian artist, etcher, sculptor, writer, editorial cartoonist, scale modeller, and an accomplished amateur boxer.
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November 4
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October 12
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October 13
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October 17
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October 19
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October 27
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October 30
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Orson Welles
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film.
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Osip Mandelstam
Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam (p; – 27 December 1938) was a Russian Jewish poet and essayist.
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Our Town
Our Town is a 1938 metatheatrical three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder.
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Out of the Silent Planet
Out of the Silent Planet is a science fiction novel by the British author C. S. Lewis, published in 1938 by John Lane, The Bodley Head.
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Ovid Densusianu
Ovid Densusianu (also known under his pen name Ervin; 29 December 1873, Făgăraș – 9 June 1938, Bucharest) was a Romanian poet, philologist, linguist, folklorist, literary historian and critic, şef de şcoală poetică, university professor and journalist.
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Paola Drigo
Paola (née Bianchetti) Drigo (4 January 1876 – 4 January 1938) was an Italian writer of short stories, novellas, and novels.
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Patrick Hamilton (writer)
Patrick Hamilton (17 March 1904 – 23 September 1962) was an English playwright and novelist.
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Paul Bowles
Paul Frederic Bowles (December 30, 1910November 18, 1999) was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator.
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Paul Claudel
Paul Claudel (6 August 1868 – 23 February 1955) was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptress Camille Claudel.
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Pearl S. Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973; also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu) was an American writer and novelist.
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Peter Cheyney
Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse Cheyney (22 February 1896 – 26 June 1951), known as Peter Cheyney, was a British crime fiction writer who flourished between 1936 and 1951.
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Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Phoebe Atwood Taylor (1909–1976) was an American mystery author.
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Pierre Schaeffer
Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer (English pronunciation:,; 14 August 1910 – 19 August 1995) was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist and acoustician.
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Pulitzer Prize for Drama
The Pulitzer Prize for Drama is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.
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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.
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Quiet Wedding (play)
Quiet Wedding is a 1938 comedy play in three acts by the British writer Esther McCracken.
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Rachel Field
Rachel Lyman Field (1894–1942) was an American novelist, poet, and children's fiction writer.
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Raymond Carver
Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short-story writer and poet.
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Rebecca (novel)
Rebecca is a thriller novel by English author Dame Daphne du Maurier.
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Reformed Church in America
The Reformed Church in America (RCA) is a mainline Reformed Protestant denomination in Canada and the United States.
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René Daumal
René Daumal (16 March 1908 – 21 May 1944) was a French spiritual para-surrealist writer and poet, best known for his posthumously published novel Mount Analogue (1952) as well as for being an early, outspoken practitioner of pataphysics.
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Rex Stout
Rex Todhunter Stout (December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975) was an American writer noted for his detective fiction.
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Robert Ardrey
Robert Ardrey (October 16, 1908 – January 14, 1980) was an American playwright, screenwriter and science writer perhaps best known for The Territorial Imperative (1966).
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Robert E. Sherwood
Robert Emmet Sherwood (April 4, 1896 – November 14, 1955) was an American playwright, editor, and screenwriter.
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Robert Graves
Robert Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985), also known as Robert von Ranke Graves, was an English poet, historical novelist, critic, and classicist.
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Robert Herrick (novelist)
Robert Welch Herrick (April 21, 1868 – December 23, 1938) was a novelist who was part of a new generation of American realists.
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Robert Hughes (critic)
Robert Studley Forrest Hughes AO (28 July 19386 August 2012) was an Australian-born art critic, writer, and producer of television documentaries.
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Robert McAlmon
Robert Menzies McAlmon (also used Robert M. McAlmon, as his signature name, March 9, 1895 – February 2, 1956) was an American author, poet and publisher.
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Robert Newton Flew
Robert Newton Flew (1886–1962) was an English Methodist minister and theologian, and an advocate of ecumenism among the Christian churches.
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Robin Hyde
Robin Hyde (19 January 1906 – 23 August 1939) is one of New Zealand's major poets.
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Rodolfo Usigli
Rodolfo Usigli (November 17, 1905 – June 18, 1979) was a Mexican playwright.
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S. S. Van Dine
S. S. Van Dine (also styled S.S. Van Dine) is the pseudonym used by American art critic Willard Huntington Wright (October 15, 1888 – April 11, 1939) when he wrote detective novels. Wright was an important figure in avant-garde cultural circles in pre-World War I New York, and under the pseudonym (which he originally used to conceal his identity) he created the immensely popular fictional detective Philo Vance, a sleuth and aesthete who first appeared in books in the 1920s, then in movies and on the radio.
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Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, poet, and literary translator who lived in Paris for most of his adult life.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets.
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Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, alternatively spelt as Sarat Chandra Chatterjee (15 September 1876 – 16 January 1938), was a prominent Bengali novelist and short story writer of the early 20th century.
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Scoop (novel)
Scoop is a 1938 novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh.
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Señora Carrar's Rifles
Señora Carrar's Rifles (Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar) is a one-act play by the twentieth-century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, written in collaboration with Margarete Steffin.
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September 13
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September 15
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September 3
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Spring Meeting (play)
Spring Meeting is a 1938 British comedy play written by M.J. Farrell and John Percy.
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T. H. White
Terence Hanbury "Tim" White (29 May 1906 – 17 January 1964) was an English author best known for his Arthurian novels, The Once and Future King, first published together in 1958.
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Tarzan and the Forbidden City
Tarzan and the Forbidden City is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the twentieth in his series of books about the title character Tarzan.
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Taylor Caldwell
Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell (September 7, 1900August 30, 1985) was an Anglo-American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction, also known by the pen names Marcus Holland and Max Reiner, and by her married name of J. Miriam Reback.
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The Big Money
"The Big Money" is a song by Canadian rock band Rush, originally released on their 1985 album Power Windows.
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The Black Book (Durrell novel)
The Black Book is a novel by Lawrence Durrell, published in 1938 by the Obelisk Press.
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The Black Jacobins
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution is a 1938 book by Afro-Trinidadian historian C. L. R. James, a history of the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1804.
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The Castle of Argol
The Castle of Argol (Au château d'Argol) is a 1938 novel by the French writer, Julien Gracq.
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The Circus Is Coming
The Circus Is Coming is a children's novel by Noel Streatfeild, about the working life of a travelling circus.
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The Coming Victory of Democracy
The Coming Victory of Democracy is a book published in 1938 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
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The Corn Is Green
The Corn Is Green is a 1938 semi-autobiographical play by Welsh dramatist and actor Emlyn Williams.
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The Crooked Hinge
The Crooked Hinge is a mystery novel (1938) by detective novelist John Dickson Carr.
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The Cut Direct
The Cut Direct is a novel that was published in 1938 by Phoebe Atwood Taylor writing as Alice Tilton.
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The Death of the Heart
The Death of the Heart is a 1938 novel by Elizabeth Bowen set in the interwar period.
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The Devil to Pay (Ellery Queen novel)
The Devil To Pay is a novel that was published in 1938 by Ellery Queen.
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The Emperor's Tomb
The Emperor's Tomb (Die Kapuzinergruft) is a 1938 novel by the Austrian writer Joseph Roth.
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The Fashion in Shrouds
The Fashion in Shrouds is a crime novel by Margery Allingham.
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The Five Chinese Brothers
The Five Chinese Brothers is an American children's book written by Claire Huchet Bishop and illustrated by Kurt Wiese.
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The Four False Weapons
The Four False Weapons, first published in 1937, is a detective story by John Dickson Carr featuring his series detective Henri Bencolin.
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The Four of Hearts
The Four of Hearts is a novel that was published in 1938 by Ellery Queen.
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The Gift (Nabokov novel)
The Gift (Дар, Dar) is Vladimir Nabokov's final Russian novel, and is considered to be his farewell to the world he was leaving behind.
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The Gracie Allen Murder Case
The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1938) (also published as The Scent of Murder) is the eleventh of twelve detective novels by S. S. Van Dine featuring his famous fictional detective of the 1920s and 1930s, Philo Vance.
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The Judas Window
The Judas Window (also published as The Crossbow Murder) is a famous locked room mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), writing under the name of Carter Dickson, published in 1938 and featuring detective Sir Henry Merrivale.
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The Late George Apley
The Late George Apley is a 1937 novel by John Phillips Marquand.
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The Long Valley
The Long Valley is a collection of short stories written by the American author John Steinbeck.
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The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (novel)
The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By, first published in English in 1938, is a crime thriller by Georges Simenon about a man's rapid descent into criminality and madness following sudden financial ruination.
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The Mercury Theatre on the Air
The Mercury Theatre on the Air (first known as First Person Singular) is a radio series of live radio dramas created by Orson Welles.
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The Planets: A Modern Allegory
The Planets: A Modern Allegory is a radio play, written in verse, by Alfred Kreymborg.
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The Secret Series (Enid Blyton)
The Secret Series is a series of adventure novels written by Enid Blyton.
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The Sword in the Stone (novel)
The Sword in the Stone is a novel by British writer T. H. White, published in 1938, initially as a stand-alone work but now the first part of a tetralogy, The Once and Future King.
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The Unvanquished
The Unvanquished is a 1938 novel by the American author William Faulkner, set in Yoknapatawpha County.
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The War of the Worlds (radio drama)
"The War of the Worlds" is an episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air.
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The White Stag
The White Stag is a children's book, written and illustrated by Kate Seredy.
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The Yearling
The Yearling is the 1938 novel written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
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Theodore Ward
James Theodore Ward (September 15, 1902 – May 8, 1983) was a leftist political playwright and theatre educator during the first half of the 20th century and one of the earliest contributors to the Black Chicago Renaissance.
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Thieves' Carnival
Le Bal des Voleurs (Thieves' Carnival) is a play written by French playwright Jean Anouilh, first staged at Théâtre des Arts, Paris on 17 August 1938.
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Thomas Mann
Paul Thomas Mann (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
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Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was an American novelist of the early twentieth century.
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Thornton Wilder
Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist.
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Three Guineas
Three Guineas is a book-length essay by Virginia Woolf, published in June 1938.
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To Wake the Dead
To Wake the Dead, first published in 1938, is a detective story by John Dickson Carr featuring his series detective Gideon Fell.
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Tom Raworth
Thomas Moore "Tom" Raworth (19 July 1938 – 8 February 2017) was an English-Irish poet, publisher, editor, and teacher who published over 40 books of poetry and prose during his life.
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Too Many Cooks (novel)
Too Many Cooks is the fifth Nero Wolfe detective novel by American mystery writer Rex Stout.
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Tor Obrestad
Tor Obrestad (born 12 February 1938) is a Norwegian novelist, poet and documentary writer.
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Torchlight to Valhalla
Torchlight to Valhalla is a lesbian-themed novel published by Random House in 1938, written by Gale Wilhelm.
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Tropic of Capricorn (novel)
Tropic of Capricorn is a semi-autobiographical novel by Henry Miller, first published by Obelisk Press in Paris in 1939.
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U.S.A. (trilogy)
The U.S.A. Trilogy is a series of three novels by American writer John Dos Passos, comprising the novels The 42nd Parallel (1930), 1919 (1932) and The Big Money (1936).
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Unity Theatre, London
The Unity Theatre was a theatre club formed in 1936, and initially based in St Judes Hall, Britannia Street, Somers Town, London NW1.
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Ursula Moray Williams
Ursula Moray Williams (19 April 1911 – 17 October 2006) was an English children's author of nearly 70 books for children.
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Vidas Secas
Vidas Secas (Pre-Reform spelling: Vidas Sêcas, literally "Dry Lives"; translated into English as Barren Lives) is a novel by twentieth-century Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos, written in 1938.
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Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 188228 March 1941) was an English writer, who is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.
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Vladimir Bartol
Vladimir Bartol (24 February 1903 – 12 September 1967) was a writer from the community of Slovene minority in Italy.
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Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; 2 July 1977) was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator and entomologist.
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When We Are Married
When We Are Married is a comedy by the English dramatist, J. B. Priestley.
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Willi Glasauer
Willi Glasauer (born 9 December 1938 in Stříbro) is a German illustrator of books for children.
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William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi.
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Xavier Herbert
Xavier Herbert (15 May 190110 November 1984) was an Australian writer best known for his Miles Franklin Award-winning novel Poor Fellow My Country (1975).
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1808 in literature
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1832 in literature
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1853 in literature
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1862 in literature
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1863 in literature
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1864 in literature
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1868 in literature
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1871 in literature
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1873 in literature
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1876 in literature
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1881 in literature
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1890 in literature
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1891 in literature
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1894 in literature
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1900 in literature
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1911 in literature
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1988 in literature
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1989 in literature
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2001 in literature
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2003 in literature
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2004 in literature
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2005 in literature
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2007 in literature
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2012 in literature
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2016 in literature
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_in_literature
