1931 in literature
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See also: 1930 in literature, other events of 1931, 1932 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Samuel Beckett publishes "Proust," a collection of essays
- Cherokee playwright Lynn Riggs' play Green Grow the Lilacs premiers. It would later be adapted by Rodgers and Hammerstein as Oklahoma!.
- October 4 - Debut appearance of the Dick Tracy comic strip, created by cartoonist Chester Gould.
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New books
- Afternoon Men - Anthony Powell
- Big Money - P.G. Wodehouse
- Black No More - George S. Schuyler
- The Cat Who Went to Heaven - Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
- The Chinaberry Tree - Jessie Redmon Fauset
- The Colored Gentlemen, A Product of Modern Civilization - Dennis F. Imbert
- The Conqueror – Georgette Heyer
- Desert Encounter - Knud Holmboe
- The Dutch Shoe Mystery - Ellery Queen
- A Fighting Man of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- The Floating Admiral - Detection Club
- The Glass Key - Dashiell Hammett
- The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
- Hatter's Castle - A.J. Cronin
- The Hermetic Tradition - Julius Evola
- Highland Fling (novel) - Nancy Mitford
- If I Were You - P.G. Wodehouse
- Judith Paris - Hugh Walpole
- The Little Golden Calf - Ilf and Petrov
- The Lonely Road - Nevil Shute
- Malice Aforethought - Francis Iles
- No Man's Meat - Morley Callaghan
- Prince Jali - Leopold Myers
- The Road Back - Erich Remarque
- Roman Holiday - Upton Sinclair
- Sanctuary - William Faulkner
- The Secret of Shadow Ranch - Carolyn Keene
- Strong Poison - Dorothy Sayers
- Swallowdale - Arthur Ransome
- These 13 - William Faulkner
- The 35th of May, or Conrad's Ride to the South Seas - Erich Kästner
- The Waves - Virginia Woolf
- Wild Orchid (novel) - Sigrid Undset
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New drama
- Eugene O'Neill - Mourning Becomes Electra
- Dodie Smith - Autumn Crocus
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Births
- January 6 - E. L. Doctorow, author
- January 9 - Algis Budrys, science fiction author
- January 10 - Peter Barnes, playwright
- January 27 - Mordecai Richler, author (d. 2001)
- February 10 - Thomas Bernhard, author (d. 1989)
- February 11 - Larry Merchant, author/boxing commentator
- February 18 - Johnny Hart, cartoonist
- February 18 - Toni Morrison, writer, winner 1993 Nobel Prize in literature
- March 2 - Tom Wolfe
- July 7 - David Eddings, American novelist
- July 10 - Nick Adams, screenwriter
- August 12 - William Goldman, author
- October 19 - John le Carré, novelist
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Deaths
- March 27 - Arnold Bennett, novelist
- April 4 - André Michelin, originator of the Michelin Guide
- April 10 - Khalil Gibran, poet
- August 27 - Frank Harris, author and editor,
- August 31 - Hall Caine, author
- October 13 - Ernst Didring, Swedish writer
- December 26 - Melvil Dewey, inventor of the most widely-used library classification system
- December 27 - Alfred Perceval Graves, author and collector of songs and ballads
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Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize: Kate O'Brien, Without My Cloak
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth Coatsworth, The Cat Who Went to Heaven
- Nobel Prize for literature - Erik Axel Karlfeldt
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Susan Glaspell, Alison's House
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Frost: Collected Poems
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Margaret Ayer Barnes - Years of Gracefr:1931 en littérature