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1934

• Louis Zukofsky publishes First Half of “A” 9
• Henry Roth publishes Call It Sleep
• Malcolm Muggeridge publishes Winter in Moscow
• John Joseph Mathews’ Sundown
• Sigrid Undset publishes The Master of Hestviken
• F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes Tender Is the Night
• Opening of The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, one of the most significant libraries in the U.S. for research and literary history, in Los Angeles
• Henry de Montherlant publishes Les Celibataires (The Bachelors)
• H. E. Bates publishes The Woman Who Had Imagination and Other Stories
• Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour is produced
• Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee publish The Adventures of Ellery Queen
• Luigi Pirandello receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
• Agatha Christie publishes Murder on the Orient Express
• Robert Graves publishes I, Claudius
• Henry Miller publishes Tropic of Cancer
• Judith Barnard is born
• William Saroyan publishes The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
• Malcolm Cowley publishes Exile’s Return: A Narrative of Ideas
• William Phillips and Philip Rahv found Partisan Review in New York
• Robert Hillyer receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Collected Verse
• Sidney Kingsley receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for Men in White
• The U.S. Wheeler-Howard Indian Reorganization Act, reversing the intent of the 1871 Dawes Act, provides for tribal ownership and self-government
• Audrey Wurdemann publishes Bright Ambush
• Caroline Miller receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Lamb in His Bosom
• Ezra Pound publishes ABC of Reading
• Engelbert Dollfuss, Chancellor of Austria, is assassinated by the Nazis
• By popular acclaim, Adolf Hitler is named “der Führer” in Germany
• Eyvind Johnson publishes Volume I of his tetralogy Romanem om Olaf, entitled Nu var det, 1914
• The first freeway, the Autobahn, is constructed in Germany
• James Hilton publishes Good-bye Mr. Chips
• Josephine W. Johnson publishes Now in November
• Caroline Gordon publishes Aleck Maury: Sportsman
• Frans Eemil Sillanpää publishes Ihmiset suviyossa (People in the Summer Night)
• Rudy Wiebe is born (October 4)
• Joan Didion is born (December 5)
• Wendell Berry is born (August 5)
• Piers Anthony is born (August 6)
• Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka) is born (October 7)
• Alexandra Ripley is born (January 8)
• Sonia Sanchez is born (September 9)
• Alan Bennett is born (May 9)
• Ronald Harwood is born (November 9)
• Carl Sagan is born (November 9)
• John Rechy is born (March 10)
• Leon Rooke is born (September 11)
• Mary (Hunter) Austin dies (August 13)
• Wole Soyinka is born (July 13)
• Mark Strand is born (April 14)
• Alan Garner is born (October 17)
• Audre Lorde is born (February 18)
• Edward Bond is born (July 18)
• Leonard Cohen is born (September 21)
• Wallace Thurman dies (December 21)
• Garry Wills is born (May 22)
• Gerald Robert Vizenor is born (October 22)
• Arthur Wing Pinero dies (November 23)
• John Brunner is born (September 24)
• Rudolph Fisher dies (December 26)
• Austin C. Clarke is born (July 26)
• Harlan Ellison is born (May 27)
• N. Scott Momaday is born (February 27)