1950 in literature

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1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• Across the River and into the Trees - Ernest Hemingway
• The Adventurer - Mika Waltari
• Beetlecreek - William Demby
• Cabbagetown - Hugh Garner
• The Cardinal - Henry Morton Robinson
• The Child Who Never Grew - Pearl S. Buck
• The Disenchanted - Budd Schulberg
• The Door in the Wall - Marguerite de Angeli
• Floodtide - Frank Yerby
• Florence Nightingale - Cecil Woodham-Smith
• The Grass Is Singing - Doris Lessing
• I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
• Joy Street - Frances Parkinson Keyes
• Jubilee Trail - Gwen Bristow
• Kon-Tiki - Thor Heyerdahl
• The Liberal Imagination - Lionel Trilling
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
• The Little World of Don Camillo - Giovanni Guareschi
• Parade's End - Ford Madox Ford
• The Parasites - Daphne du Maurier
• Star Money - Kathleen Winsor
• Summer In The Country - Edith Templeton
• The Wall - John Hersey

Deaths

• January 21 - George Orwell, writer
• March 19 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, author
• George Bernard Shaw
• Johannes Vilhelm Jensen - Danish writer, Nobel prize winner.

• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Marguerite de Angeli, The Door in the Wall
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan, South Pacific
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: A. B. Guthrie, Jr, The Way West
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Gwendolyn Brooks, Annie Allen