Events
- January 6 - The first literary character licensing agreement is signed by A. A. Milne, granting Stephen Slesinger U.S. and Canadian merchandising rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh works.
- May 10 - John Masefield becomes Poet Laureate of the UK.
- July 14 - Luigi Pirandello's The Man With the Flower in His Mouth becomes the first-ever broadcast television drama.
- September 11 - Agatha Christie marries archaeologist Max Mallowan.
- November 5 - Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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“When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.”
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