1939 in Literature - Awards

Awards

• Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Eleanor Doorly, The Radium Woman
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Aldous Huxley After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: David C. Douglas, English Scholars
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth Enright, Thimble Summer
• Nobel Prize for literature: Frans Eemil Sillanpää
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Robert E. Sherwood, Abe Lincoln in Illinois
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: John Gould Fletcher: Selected Poems
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - The Yearling