Events December 25 - A Christmas Carol was read before a radio audience for the first time. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West 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. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce is published. In 2001, the book would be one of three books by Joyce to be named as part of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 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 The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler Children of God - Vardis Fisher The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West Drums at Dusk - Arna Wendell Bontemps Files on Parade - John O'Hara Finnegans Wake - James Joyce The Gladiators - Arthur Koestler The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck Let Me Breathe Thunder - William Attaway Listen for the Voices - Anne Colver Magna - Zona Gale Mask of Dimitrios - Eric Ambler Melbourne - David Cecil Moses, Man Of The Mountain - Zora Neale Hurston The Nazarene - Sholem Asch The Outsider and Others - H.P. Lovecraft The Patriot - Pearl S. Buck Snow of Kilimanjaro - Ernest Hemingway Studies in Iconology - Erwin Panofsky Thimble Summer - Elizabeth Enright The Tree of Liberty - Elizabeth Page Births Michael Moorcock, English science fiction author Deaths January 28 - William Butler Yeats, writer Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth Enright, Thimble Summer Nobel Prize for literature: Frans Eemil Sillanpää Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Robert E. Sherwood, Abe Lincoln in Illinois Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: John Gould Fletcher: Selected Poems Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - The Yearling