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1944 in literature
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The year 1944 in literature involved some significant new books.
Events
New books
Poetry
Non-fiction
New drama
Births
- January 8 - Terry Brooks, writer of fantasy fiction
- January 21 - Jack Abbott, murderer and acclaimed writer
- February 14
- 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
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
- 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
Awards
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