Events January 9 - The first issue of Look magazine goes on sale in the United States. New Books The Citadel - A.J. Cronin Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie Diary of a Country Priest - Georges Bernanos The Good Society - Walter Lippmann Light Woman - Zona Gale More Joy in Heaven - Morley Callaghan Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck The Old Bunch - Meyer Levin Out of Africa - Isak Dinesen Roller Skates - Ruth Sawyer Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston These Low Grounds - Waters Edward Turpin Uncommon Danger - Eric Ambler The Years - Virginia Woolf Births May 8 - Thomas Pynchon, novelist November 17 - Peter Cook, comedian, satirist and writer Deaths March 15 - H. P. Lovecraft, horror writer June 19 - J. M. Barrie, novelist and dramatist August 11 - Edith Wharton, writer December 26 - Ivor Gurney, war poet Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: Ruth Sawyer, Roller Skates Nobel Prize for literature: Roger Martin du Gard Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman, You Can't Take It With You Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Frost: A Further Range Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind