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The year 1936 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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Events
- Life magazine is first published.
New books
- Eric Ambler - The Dark Frontier
- Henry Bellamann - The Gray Man Walks
- Gottfried Benn - The Trainee Man
- Arna Wendell Bontemps - Black Thunder
- Elizabeth Bowen - The House in Paris
- Carol Ryrie Brink - Caddie Woodlawn
- Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan's Quest
- James M. Cain - Double Indemnity
- Morley Callaghan - Now that April's Here and Other Stories
- Karel Čapek - War with the Newts
- John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson" - The Punch and Judy Murders
- Willa Cather - Not Under Forty
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Death on the Installment Plan
- Robert P. Tristram Coffin - John Dawn
- John Dos Passos - The Big Money
- William Pène du Bois - Otto at Sea
- Daphne du Maurier - Jamaica Inn
- Walter D. Edmonds - Drums Along the Mohawk
- William Faulkner - Absalom, Absalom!
- Aldous Huxley - Eyeless in Gaza
- Winifred Holtby - South Riding
- Arthur Joseph - Dark Metropolis
- Jonathan Latimer - The Lady in the Morgue
- Andrew Lytle - The Long Night
- Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind
- John A. Moroso - Nobody's Buddy
- Ellery Queen - Halfway House
- Ayn Rand - We the Living
- Israel Joshua Singer - The Brothers Ashkenazi
- John Steinbeck - In Dubious Battle
- Rex Stout - The Rubber Band
- S. S. Van Dine - The Kidnap Murder Case
- Ethel Lina White - The Wheel Spins (later The Lady Vanishes)
New drama
- Noel Coward
- Federico García Lorca - Doña Rosita la soltera
- Clare Boothe Luce - The Women
- Terence Rattigan - French Without Tears
Poetry
See 1936 in poetry
Non-fiction
- C. S. Lewis - The Allegory of Love
- Edwin Muir - Scott and Scotland
- Olavi Paavolainen - Kolmannen valtakunnan vieraana
Births
- January 10 - Stephen Ambrose, controversial historian (d. 2002)
- 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
- June 24 - J. H. Prynne, poet
- July 22 - Tom Robbins, novelist
- August 24 - A. S. Byatt, novelist
- September 20 - Andrew Davies, TV and film writer
- October 5 - Václav Havel, dramatist and first president of the Czech Republic
- November 17 - John Wells, satirical writer and actor (d. 1998)
- November 20 - Don DeLillo, United States novelist
- date unknown - Duff Hart-Davis, biographer and journalist
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)
Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Winifred Holtby, South Riding
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Edward Sackville West, A Flame in Sunlight: The Life and Work of Thomas de Quincey
- 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, Idiot's Delight
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert P. Tristram Coffin: Strange Holiness
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Harold L. Davis - Honey in the Horn
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