Events Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather is published. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder is published. In 2001, the book would be on the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. New Books Amerika - Franz Kafka Aspects of the Novel - E. M. Forster The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder The Closed Garden - Julian Green La Confession de Dan Yack - Blaise Cendrars Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather Der Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse Go She Must - David Garnett God's Trombones - James Weldon Johnson Hills Like White Elephants - Ernest Hemingway Jalna - Mazo De La Roche King of the Jews - Waverley Lewis Root Marching On - James Boyd Now We Are Six - A.A. Milne Philosophy and Civilization - John Dewey The President's Daughter - Nan Britton A la recherche du temps perdu (final installment) - Marcel Proust Smoky the Cowhorse - Will James The Snake Pit - Sigrid Undset Something About Eve - James Branch Cabell The Son Avenger - Sigrid Undset To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf The Tower Treasure - Franklin W. Dixon Births February 21 - Erma Bombeck, writer, humorist (+ 1996) May 25 - Robert Ludlum, novelist (+ 2001) August 23 - Dick Bruna, illustrator October 16 - Günter Grass, German novelist Deaths April 16 - Gaston Leroux June 14 - Jerome K. Jerome, writer Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: Will James, Smoky the Cow Horse Nobel Prize for Literature: Henri Bergson Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Paul Green, In Abraham's Bosom Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Leonora Speyer, Fiddler's Farewell Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Louis Bromfield, Early Autumn