1942 in literature
See also: 1941 in literature, other events of 1942, 1943 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
New books
- After The Storm - Annie Greene Nelson
- Black Alibi - Cornell Woolrich
- Black Lamb and Grey Falcon - Rebecca West
- Cross Creek - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- David - Earl Birney
- Floods of Spring - Henry Bellamann
- Frenchman's Creek - Daphne du Maurier
- The Matchlock Gun - Walter D. Edmonds
- Picketing Hell - Adam Clayton Powell, Sr.
- The Last Time I Saw Paris - Elliot Paul
- The Poky Little Puppy - Janette Sebring Lowrey
- The Robe - Lloyd C. Douglas
- The Stranger (L'Étranger) - Albert Camus
- The Strong City - Taylor Caldwell
- To Be a Pilgrim - Joyce Cary
- West with the Night - Beryl Markham
Births
- January 31 - Derek Jarman, director, writer (+ 1994)
- March 2 - John Irving, novelist
- April 1 - Samuel R. Delany, novelist and critic
- April 4 - Kitty Kelley, journalist and biographer
- April 6 - Barry Levinson, screenwriter, director and producer
- July 17 - Tim Brooke-Taylor, comedy writer and actor
- August 2 - Isabel Allende, novelist
- August 7 - Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days author
- October 23 - Michael Crichton, author
- October 23 - Douglas Dunn, poet
- December 6 - Peter Handke, Austrian novelist
- date unknown - Gladys Cardiff, poet
- date unknown - Craig Thomas, novelist
Deaths
- April 24 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables novelist
- June - Moses Annenberg, publisher
- September 19 - Condé Nast, magazine publisher
- October 20 - Friedrich Münzer, classical scholar
- date unknown - Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson, Greyfriars Bobby author
Awards
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Walter D. Edmonds, The Matchlock Gun
- Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William Rose Benet, The Dust Which Is God
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life