1936 in literature
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See also: 1935 in literature, other events of 1936, 1937 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Life magazine is first published
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New books
- The Allegory of Love - C. S. Lewis
- The Big Money - John Dos Passos
- Black Thunder - Arna Wendell Bontemps
- The Brothers Ashkenazi - Israel Joshua Singer
- Caddie Woodlawn - Carol Ryrie Brink
- The Dark Frontier - Eric Ambler
- Dark Metropolis - Arthur Joseph
- Death on the Installment Plan - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- Double Indemnity - James M. Cain
- Drums Along the Mohawk - Walter D. Edmonds
- Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
- The Gray Man Walks - Henry Bellamann
- The House in Paris - Elizabeth Bowen
- In Dubious Battle - John Steinbeck
- Jamaica Inn - Daphne du Maurier
- John Dawn - Robert P. Tristram Coffin
- The Lady in the Morgue - Jonathan Latimer
- The Long Night - Andrew Lytle
- Nobody's Buddy - John A. Moroso
- Not Under Forty - Willa Cather
- Now that April's Here and Other Stories - Morley Callaghan
- Otto at Sea - William Pène du Bois
- Quel homme es-tu - André Billy
- The Trainee Man - Gottfried Benn
- We The Living - Ayn Rand
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New drama
- Noel Coward - Tonight at 8:30 and Present Laughter
- Federico García Lorca - Doña Rosita la soltera
- Clare Boothe Luce - The Women
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Births
- January 10 - Stephen Ambrose, controversial historian
- January 22 - Joseph Wambaugh, author
- February 18 - Jean M. Auel, Earth's Children author
- May 23 - Ian Kennedy Martin, scriptwriter
- June 23 - Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull author
- July 22 - Tom Robbins, novelist
- August 24 - A. S. Byatt, novelist
- October 5 - Václav Havel, dramatist and first president of the Czech Republic
- November 17 - John Wells, satirical writer and actor
- November 20 - Don DeLillo, United States novelist
- date unknown - Andrew Davies, TV and film writer
- date unknown - Duff Hart-Davis, biographer and journalist
- date unknown - J. H. Prynne, poet
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Deaths
- January 18 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer - Nobel prize for literature (1907)
- March 16 - Marguerite Durand, journalist
- April 30 - A. E. Housman, poet
- June 11 - Robert E. Howard, American fantasy writer (suicide)
- June 12 - M. R. James, writer of ghost stories
- June 14 - G. K. Chesterton, author
- June 14 - Maxim Gorky, dramatist
- August 19 - Federico García Lorca, dramatist and poet
- November 12 - Stefan Grabinski, "the Polish Poe"
- December 10 - Luigi Pirandello, dramatist and novelist
- December 28 - John Cornford, Communist poet
- Grazia Deledda, Sardinian (Italy) writer - Nobel prize for literature (1926)
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Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize: Winifred Holtby, South Riding
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn
- Nobel Prize for literature: Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Robert E. Sherwood, Idiots Delight
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert P. Tristram Coffin: Strange Holiness
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Harold L. Davis - Honey in the Hornfr:1936 en littérature