See also: 1942 in literature, other events of 1943, 1944 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
New Books
- Adam of the Road - Elizabeth Janet Gray
- The Apostle - Sholem Asch
- Being and Nothingness - Jean-Paul Sartre
- Citizen Tom Paine - Howard Fast
- Claudius the God - Robert Graves
- Earth's Last Citadel - C. L. Moore
- The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
- Gremlins - Roald Dahl
- The Lady In The Lake - Raymond Chandler
- The Last of Summer - Kate O'Brien
- The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- The Nature and Destiny of Man - Reinhold Niebuhr
- Mr. Mirakel - E. Phillipe Oppenheim
- The Raven - Chancellor Williams
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
- Victoria Grandolet - Henry Bellamann
- The White Face - Carl Offord
Births
- January 4 - Doris Kearns Goodwin, writer
- January 11 - Jim Hightower, radio host, author
- February 15 - Elke Heidenreich, journalist and writer
- February 18 - Graeme Garden, writer, comedian, actor
Deaths
- March 10 - Lawrence Binyon, poet and scholar
- December 22 - Beatrix Potter, Children's author
Awards
- Newberry Medal for children's literature: Janet Elizabeth Gray, Adam of the Road
- Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Frost: A Witness Tree
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Upton Sinclair - Dragon's Teeth