Events Life magazine is first published New Books The Allegory of Love - C. S. Lewis The Big Money - John Dos Passos Black Thunder - Arna Wendell Bontemps The Brothers Ashkenazi - Israel Joshua Singer Caddie Woodlawn - Carol Ryrie Brink Dark Metropolis - Arthur Joseph Death on the Installment Plan - Louis-Ferdinand Céline Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell The Gray Man Walks - Henry Bellamann The House in Paris - Elixabeth Bowen In Dubious Battle - John Steinbeck Jamaica Inn - Daphne du Maurier John Dawn - Robert P. Tristram Coffin The Long Night - Andrew Lytle Not Under Forty - Willa Cather Now that April's Here and Other Stories - Morley Callaghan Otto at Sea - William Pène du Bois Quel homme es-tu - André Billy We The Living - Ayn Rand Births January 22 - Joseph Wambaugh, author November 20 - Don DeLillo, United States author Deaths January 18 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer June 14 - Gilbert Keith Chesterton, author Grazia Deledda, Sardinian (Italy) writer - Nobel prize for literature (1926) Awards 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, Idiots Delight Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert P. Tristram Coffin: Strange Holiness Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Harold L. Davis - Honey in the Horn