Events February 17 - The magazine Newsweek is published for the first time. James Joyce's Ulysses allowed into United States New Books Anthony Adverse - Hervey Allen The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein Banana Bottom - Claude McKay The Case of the Sulky Girl - Erle Stanley Gardner La Condition humaine - André Malraux God's Little Acre - Erskine Caldwell The Last Bouquet: Some Twilight Tales - Marjorie Bowen Lost Horizon - James Hilton Man's Fate - Andre Malraux Papa La Fleur - Zona Gale Peter Abelard - Helen Waddell Princess Malah - John H.Hill South Moon Under - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett Vanessa - Hugh Walpole Wardens of the Seas (poetry) - Edwin James Brady The Werewolf of Paris - Guy Endore Woman In The Dark - Dashiell Hammett Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze - Elizabeth Foreman Lewis Births January 16 - Susan Sontag, author February 12 - Costa-Gavras, director, writer September 19 - Gilles Archambault, Quebecois novelist Deaths January 21 - George A. Moore, poet, novelist January 31 - John Galsworthy, writer July 8 - Anthony Hope September 25 - Ring Lardner, writer Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze Nobel Prize for literature: Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Maxwell Anderson, Both Your Houses Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Archibald Macleish: Conquistador Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: T. S. Stribling - The Store