1942 in literature

See also: 1941 in literature, other events of 1942, 1943 in literature, list of years in literature.

New Books

• After The Storm - Annie Greene Nelson
• Black Alibi - Cornell Woolrich
• Black Lamb and Grey Falcon - Rebecca West
• Cross Creek - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• David - Earl Birney
• Floods of Spring - Henry Bellamann
• Frenchman's Creek - Daphne du Maurier
• The Matchlock Gun - Walter D. Edmonds
• Picketing Hell - Adam Clayton Powell, Sr.
• The Poky Little Puppy - Janette Sebring Lowrey
• The Robe - Lloyd C. Douglas
• The Song of Bernadette - Franz Werfel
• The Stranger (book)The Stranger (L'Étranger) - Albert Camus
• The Strong City - Taylor Caldwell
• To Be a Pilgrim - Joyce Cary
• West with the Night - Beryl Markham

Births

• January 31 - Derek Jarman, director, writer (+ 1994)
• October 23 - Michael Crichton, author
• December 6 - Peter Handke, Austrian novelist

Awards

• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Walter D. Edmonds, The Matchlock Gun
• Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William Rose Benet, The Dust Which Is God
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life