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Events relating to literature
US novelist Erskine Caldwell publishes Tobacco Road, about white sharecroppers coping with poverty and desperation in Georgia
John Cowper Powys's novel A Glastonbury Romance is published first in New York
Young Lonigan: a Boyhood in Chicago Streets is the first novel in James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan trilogy
US author Damon Runyon publishes his first collection of stories about low-life New York, under the title Guys and Dolls
Pablo Neruda increases his international reputation with a collection of surrealist poems, Residencia en la tierra ('Residence on earth')
In My Life and Hard Times James Thurber's publishes an affectionate account of his family, including the night the bed fell on his father
H.G. Wells publishes The Shape of Things to Come, a novel in which he accurately predicts a renewal of world war
Gertrude Stein publishes a best-selling account of her own life under the title The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
The Pylon group of British poets get their name from Stephen Spender's poem 'The Pylons'
English author Antonia White publishes an autobiographical first novel, Frost in May
Erskine Caldwell publishes a novel, God's Little Acre, about a farmer obsessed with finding gold on his farm
García Lorca writes his play Blood Wedding while he is director of a company touring in rural Spain
19-year-old Mexican poet Octavio Paz publishes his first collection, Wild Moon
In Down and Out in Paris and London English author George Orwell writes a sympathetic account of the people he meets on hard times
US author Scott FitzGerald publishes his novel Tender Is the Night
US author Henry Miller publishes in Paris a largely sexual autobiography, Tropic of Cancer, about his life as an expatriate
Australian author Christina Stead publishes a first novel based on her own family, Seven Poor Men of Sydney
In Lillian Hellman's play The Children's Hour two teachers are maliciously accused of lesbianism by one of their pupils
In I, Claudius the autobiography of the Roman emperor is ghost-written by Robert Graves
In A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh sends his hero Tony Last to a disastrous fate, far away in the Amazon rain forest
Tortilla Flat brings success for the US novelist John Steinbeck
T.S. Eliot's play Murder in the Cathedral has its first performance in Canterbury cathedral
Elias Canetti publishes the novel later translated into English as Auto da Fé
Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges publishes A Universal History of Infamy, one of the first examples of magic realism
A collection of Constantine Cavafy's poems is published in Alexandria in an undated edition
