1944 in literature
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The year 1944 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

New books

• Samuel Hopkins Adams - Canal Town
• Jorge Amado - Terras do Sem Fim (The Violent Land)
• Saul Bellow - Dangling Man
• Jorge Luis Borges - The Book of Imaginary Beings
• Christianna Brand - Green for Danger
• John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson" - He Wouldn't Kill Patience
• Joyce Cary - The Horse's Mouth
• Edmund Crispin - The Case of the Gilded Fly
• A. J. Cronin - The Green Years
• Esther Forbes - Johnny Tremain
• Jean Genet - Notre Dame des Fleurs
• Hayyim Hazaz - Thou That Dwellest in the Gardens
• John Hersey - A Bell for Adano
• Georgette Heyer - Friday's Child
• Charles R. Jackson - The Lost Weekend
• Astrid Lindgren - Pippi Longstocking
• H. P. Lovecraft - Marginalia
• W. Somerset Maugham - The Razor's Edge
• Oscar Micheaux - The Case of Mrs. Wingate
• Alberto Moravia - Agostino (Two Adolescents)
• Gunnar Myrdal - An American Dilemma
• Annie Greene Nelson - The Dawn Appears
• Feodor Rojankovsky - The Tall Book of Nursery Tales
• Clark Ashton Smith - Lost Worlds
• Rex Stout - Not Quite Dead Enough
• Donald Wandrei - The Eye and the Finger
• Henry S. Whitehead - Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales

Poetry

• James K. Baxter - Beyond the Palisade
• Edwin James Bradley - Two Frontiers
• Paul Éluard - Au rendez-vous allemand (To the German Rendezvous)
• Five Young American Poets, volume 3, including work by Eve Merriam, John Frederick Nims, Jean Garrigue, Tennessee Williams and Alejandro Carrión
• Nicholas Moore - The Glass Tower

Non-fiction

• Charles William Beebe - Book of Naturalists.
• Friedrich Hayek - The Road to Serfdom.
• Max Horkheimer & Theodor W. Adorno - Dialectic of Enlightenment.
• Margaret Landon - Anna and the King of Siam.
• Gunnar Myrdal - An American Dilemma.
• Charles Stevenson - Ethics and Language.

New drama

• Bertolt Brecht - The Caucasian Chalk Circle (written)
• Lawrence Riley - Time to Kill

Births

• January 8 - Terry Brooks, writer of fantasy fiction
• January 21 - Jack Abbott, murderer and acclaimed writer
• February 14
  • Alan Parker, director, writer
  • Carl Bernstein, journalist
• February 16 - Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist
• May 13 - Armistead Maupin, novelist
• May 18 - W. G. Sebald, novelist (d. 2001)
• June 5 - John Fraser, journalist
• August 18 - Paula Danziger, young adult book novelist
• August 30 - Molly Ivins, journalist
• October 2 - Vernor Vinge, science fiction novelist
• October 5 - Tomás de Jesús Mangual, journalist
• November 7 - Peter Wilby, journalist
• November 24 - Eintou Pearl Springer, poet
• November 28 - Rita Mae Brown, writer and political activist
• December 17 - Jack L. Chalker, science fiction novelist
• date unknown
  • Uldis Bērziņš, poet and translator
  • Witi Ihimaera, New Zealand Māori writer, author of The Whale Rider
  • Tom Leonard, dialect poet
  • Patrick O'Connell, poet (d. 2004)

Deaths

• January 6 - Ida M. Tarbell, journalist
• January 8 - Joseph Jastrow, psychologist
• January 31 - Jean Giraudoux, dramatist
• February 10 - Israel Joshua Singer, Yiddish novelist
• March 5
  • Max Jacob, poet and critic
  • Alun Lewis, war poet
• March 28 - Stephen Leacock, economist
• May 12 - Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, "Q"
• May 16 - George Ade, journalist and dramatist
• June - Elizabeth Wharton Drexel, socialite and author
• June 9 - Keith Douglas, war poet
• June 16 - Marc Bloch, historian
• July 31 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer
• September 13 - W. Heath Robinson, cartoonist and illustrator
• October 19 - Karel Poláček, writer, humourist, journalist
• December 30 - Romain Rolland, Nobel Prize winning author
• date unknown
  • Robert Nichols, poet and dramatist
  • Joseph Campbell, poet
  • Anica Černej, poet
  • Edith Durham, travel writer
  • Olive Custance, poet
  • Ethel Lina White, crime novelist

Awards

• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Forrest Reid, Young Tom
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: C. V. Wedgwood, William the Silent
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain
• Nobel Prize for literature: Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
• Premio Nadal (first award): Carmen Laforet, Nada
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Martin Flavin, Journey in the Dark
• E. E. Cummings receives the Shelley Memorial Award for Poetry.