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The year 1938 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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Events
- The trilogy, U.S.A. by John Dos Passos, is published containing his three novels The 42nd Parallel (1930), 1919 (1932), and The Big Money (1936).
- Jorge Luis Borges is injured in an accident and develops blood poisoning in December. While recovering next year he will write the first short story in his later characteristic style.
- Samuel Beckett's first completed novel Murphy is published.
New books
- Margery Allingham - The Fashion in Shrouds
- Eric Ambler
- Cause for Alarm
- Epitaph for A Spy
- Vladimir Bartol - Alamut
- Elizabeth Bowen - The Death of the Heart
- Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan and the Forbidden City
- Taylor Caldwell - Dynasty of Death
- John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson"
- Peter Cheyney - Can Ladies Kill?
- Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot's Christmas
- René Daumal - A Night of Serious Drinking
- Isak Dinesen - Out of Africa
- John Dos Passos - U.S.A. trilogy
- Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca
- Lawrence Durrell - The Black Book
- Rachel Field - All This and Heaven Too
- Robert Graves - Count Belisarius
- Graham Greene - Brighton Rock
- Eric Knight - Lassie Come-Home
- C. S. Lewis - Out of the Silent Planet
- Henry Miller - Tropic of Capricorn
- Vladimir Nabokov
- John O'Hara - Hope of Heaven
- Ellery Queen
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - The Yearling
- Clayton Rawson - Death from a Top Hat
- Emilio Lussu - Un anno sull'altopiano
- Ayn Rand - Anthem
- Jean-Paul Sartre - La Nausée
- Kate Seredy - The White Stag
- Esphyr Slobodkina - Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business
- Rex Stout - Too Many Cooks
- B. Traven - The Bridge in The Jungle
- S. S. Van Dine - The Gracie Allen Murder Case
- Evelyn Waugh - Scoop
- Nathanael West - The Day of the Locust
- T. H. White - The Sword in the Stone
- Gale Wilhelm - Torchlight to Valhalla
- Virginia Woolf - Three Guineas
New drama
- Jean Anouilh - Thieves' Carnival (Le bal des voleurs)
- Robert Ardrey - Casey Jones
- Patrick Hamilton - Gas Light
- Kaj Munk - Han sidder ved Smeltediglen
- Robert E. Sherwood - Abe Lincoln in Illinois
- Rodolfo Usigli - The Gesticulator
- Thornton Wilder - Our Town
- Emlyn Williams - The Corn is Green
Poetry
- Alfred Kreymborg - The Planets: A Modern Allegory (radio play in verse)
Non-fiction
- Hall Caine - Life of Christ - published post-humously
- Cyril Connolly - Enemies of Promise
- Geoffrey Faber - The Romance of a Bookshop 1904-1938
- Robert McAlmon - Being Geniuses Together, 1920-1930
- Thomas Mann - The Coming Victory of Democracy
- George Orwell - Homage to Catalonia
Births
- February 12 - Judy Blume, children's author
- April 29 - Larry Niven, sci-fi author
- May 13 - Norma Klein, author
- July 19
- Nicholas Bethell, historian
- Dom Moraes, poet and columnist
- October 12 - Anne Perry, historical novelist
- October 13 - Hugo Young, journalist
- December 14 - Leonardo Boff, philosopher and theologian
- date unknown
- Christopher Booker, journalist and editor
- Charles L. Mee, dramatist
- M. K. Wren, novelist
Deaths
- January 19 - Branislav Nušić, novelist and dramatist
- March 1 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, poet and novelist
- April 19 - Sir Henry Newbolt, poet
- April 21 - Lady Ottoline Morrell, literary hostess
- May 26 - James Forbes, dramatist and screenwriter
- June 26 - James Weldon Johnson
- June 26 - E. V. Lucas, essayist and biographer
- August 7 - Konstantin Stanislavski, theatre director
- September 15 - Thomas Wolfe, novelist
- December 25 - Karel Čapek, science fiction author and dramatist
Awards
- Hawthornden Prize - David Jones for In Parenthesis
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: C. S. Forester, A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Sir Edmund Chambers, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Kate Seredy, The White Stag
- Newdigate prize: Michael Thwaites
- Nobel Prize for literature: Pearl S. Buck
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Thornton Wilder, Our Town
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Marya Zaturenska: Cold Morning Sky
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: John Phillips Marquand - The Late George Apley
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