This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1931 .
January 10 – A rare copy of Edgar Allan Poe 's Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Other Poems The Scarlet Letter Moby-Dick New York Public Library by Samuel Dupree, acting on behalf of a crooked New York antiquarian book dealer, Harry Gold.[1] January 26 – A Cherokee playwright, Lynn Riggs ' play Green Grow the Lilacs Broadway . It is later adapted by as Oklahoma! Rodgers and Hammerstein .[2] March 27 – English writer Arnold Bennett dies of typhoid in London, shortly after returning from a visit to Paris, where he drank local water to prove it was safe.[3] April – Gerald Brenan and Gamel Woolsey make a form of marriage in Rome.
June 1 – The Near v. Minnesota Supreme Court of the United States affirms the principle that prior restraint is unconstitutional.July 4 – James Joyce marries his long-time partner Nora Barnacle at Kensington register office in London.October 4 – The Dick Tracy comic strip first appears, created by cartoonist Chester Gould .[4] October 5 – The first U.K. performance of Oscar Wilde 's tragedy Salome Savoy Theatre , London, with Nancy Price as producer and as Herodias, and her daughter Joan Maude in the title role.[5] Federico García Lorca is appointed by the leftist Second Spanish Republic as director of a touring theatre company, Teatro Universitario La Barraca (The Shack), charged with taking a portable stage into Spain's rural areas to introduce audiences to classical Spanish theatre without charge.The publisher Hamish Hamilton is founded by Jamie Hamilton in London.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Hunan, China , for anthropomorphism .[6] The Marquis de Sade 's The 120 Days of Sodom (Les 120 Journées de Sodome)1785 , has its first publication in a scholarly edition as a literary text.
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January 9 – Algis Budrys , Lithuanian-American science fiction author (died 2008 )January 10 – Peter Barnes , English playwright (died 2004 )January 17 – Mark Brandis (Nikolai von Michalewsky), German journalist and science fiction author (died 2000 )January 24 – Leonard Baker , American historian and Pulitzer-winning author (died 1984 )January 27
February 9 – Thomas Bernhard , Dutch-born Austrian author (died 1989 )February 11 – Larry Merchant , American author and boxing commentatorFebruary 12 – Janwillem van de Wetering , Dutch-American crime writer (died 2008)February 18
February 19 – Robert Sobel , American business writer (died 1999 )March 2 – Tom Wolfe , American novelist (died 2018 )March 16 – Augusto Boal , Brazilian theater director and writer (died 2009 )March 22 – Leslie Thomas , Welsh novelist (died 2014 )March 26 – Alison Prince , English-born Scottish children's writer and biographer (died 2019 )April 1 – Rolf Hochhuth , German dramatistApril 15 – Tomas Tranströmer , Swedish poet and translator (died 2015 )April 21 – Gabriel de Broglie , French historianApril 29 – Robert Gottlieb , American editorMay 2 – Ruth Fainlight , American-born poet, short story writer, translator and librettistJune 12 – Robin Cook (Derek Raymond), English crime novelist (died 1994 )June 21 – Patricia Goedicke , American poet (died 2006 )July 4 – Sébastien Japrisot , French novelist and screenwriter (died 2003 )July 7 – David Eddings , American novelist (died 2009)July 10
August 2 – Karl Miller , British writer and literary editor (died 2014 )August 12 – William Goldman , American novelist and screenwriter (died 2018 )August 14 – Frederic Raphael , American-born English screenwriter, novelist and non-fiction authorAugust 16 – Marion Patrick Jones , Trinidadian writer (d. 2016 )September 14 – Ivan Klíma , Czech novelist and dramatistSeptember 22
October 8 – Dennis Silk , American-born English writer on literature and cricket, and first-class cricketerOctober 13 – Janice Elliott , English novelist and children's writer (died 1995 )October 19 – John le Carré (David John Moore Cornwell), English spy novelistNovember 3 – Arun Sarma , Assamese playwright and novelist (died 2017 )November 18 – Nikoloz Janashia , Georgian historian (died 1982 )November 28 – Tomi Ungerer , Alsatian illustrator and writer (died 2019 )
January 12 – Henry Gauthier-Villars , French writer (born 1859 )January 26 – Graça Aranha , Brazilian diplomat and writer (born 1868 )March 27 – Arnold Bennett , English novelist (born 1867 )April 4 – André Michelin , French originator of Michelin Guides (born 1853 )April 10 – Khalil Gibran , Lebanese-born American poet (born 1883 )June 29 – Nérée Beauchemin , French-Canadian poet (born 1850 )July 2 – Harald Høffding , Danish philosopher (born 1843 )August 1 – Bertha McNamara , German-born Australian pamphleteer and bookseller (born 1853 )August 15 – Delfín Chamorro , Spanish poet and language teacher (born 1863 )August 27 – Frank Harris , Irish-born American author and editor (born 1856 )August 31 – Hall Caine , Manx novelist and dramatist (born 1853 )September 9 – Matilda Cugler-Poni , Romanian poet (born 1851 )October 13 – Ernst Didring , Swedish novelist (born 1868 )October 21 – Arthur Schnitzler , Austrian dramatist (born 1862 )November 3 – Juan Zorrilla de San Martín , Uruguayan epic poet (born 1855 )November 5 – Ole Edvart Rolvaag , Norwegian American writer (born 1876 )November 19 – Xu Zhimo (徐志摩), Chinese poet (air accident, born 1897 )December 10 – Enrico Corradini , Italian novelist, essayist and journalist (born 1865 )December 26 – Melvil Dewey , American inventor of library classification system (born 1851 )December 27 – Alfred Perceval Graves , Irish author and collector of songs and ballads (born 1846 )December 31 – Ieronim Yasinsky , Russian writer, poet and essayist (born 1850
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^ McDade, Travis (2013). Thieves of Book Row: New York's Most Notorious Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped It . New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199922666 ^ Lynn Riggs: An Oklahoma Treasure Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine , Friends of Libraries in Oklahoma date=2011-10-04 Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine .^ "Straw for Silence". The Spectator 203 . 1959. ISSN 0038-6952 . OCLC 1766325 . ^ Doherty, Jim (2009). "I Like 'Em Tough" . ME . ^ Ellis, Samantha (2003-03-26). "Salomé, Savoy Theatre, October 1931" . The Guardian . Retrieved 2013-02-22 . ^ "Topics of the Times". The New York Times ^ Keating, H. R. F. (1982). Whodunit? – a guide to crime, suspense and spy fiction . London: Windward. ISBN 0-7112-0249-4 ^ "Obituary: Toni Morrison" . BBC News . 6 August 2019. Retrieved 6 August 2019 .