1931 in Literature - Events

Events

  • January 26 - Cherokee playwright Lynn Riggs' play Green Grow the Lilacs opens on Broadway. It would later be adapted by Rodgers and Hammerstein as Oklahoma!.
  • October 4 - First appearance of the Dick Tracy comic strip, created by cartoonist Chester Gould.
  • The very first Inspector Maigret novel is published under the title Pietr-le-Letton. Georges Simenon would eventually write 75 novels, as well as 28 short stories, featuring the pipe-smoking detective.

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