1943 in literature

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. Phillips Oppenheim
• The Ship – C.S. Forester
• 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
• L. E. Modesitt, Jr. – fantasy and science fiction writer

Deaths

• March 10 – Lawrence Binyon, poet and scholar
• December 22 – Beatrix Potter, Children's author

Awards

• Newbery 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