Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: E. H. Young, Miss Mole
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Francis Yeats-Brown, Lives of a Bengal Lancer
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Rachel Field, Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Sinclair Lewis
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Marc Connelly, The Green Pastures
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Conrad Aiken: Selected Poems
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Oliver La Farge - Laughing Boy
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