Events New Books Blood On The Forge - William Attaway Call It Courage - Armstrong Sperry Curious George - H.A. Rey and Margret Rey A Curtain of Green - Eudora Welty Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler Death Comes as the End - Agatha Christie Herself Surprised - Joyce Cary The Keys of the Kingdom - A.J. Cronin Make Way for Ducklings - Robert McCloskey Mildred Pierce - James M. Cain The Real Life of Sebastian Knight - Vladimir Nabokov The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis The Shy Plutocrat - E. Phillipe Oppenheim The Song of Bernadette - Franz Werfel Under the Cottonwood - Katheryn Campbell Graham Up at the Villa - W. Somerset Maugham What Makes Sammy Run - Budd Schulberg The Wind From Nowhere - Oscar Micheaux Births January 4 - Henri Bergson, writer October 4 - Anne Rice, horror/fantasy writer Deaths January 13 - James Joyce, writer March 28 - Virginia Woolf, author August 7 - Rabindranath Tagore, author Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: Armstrong Sperry, Call It Courage Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Robert E. Sherwood, There Shall Be No Night Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Leonard Bacon: Sunderland Capture Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: no award given