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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1939. Events Early – The Pocket Books mass-market paperback imprint is launched in the United States. The first of the nationally distributed titles is James Hilton's Lost Horizon. January American literary magazine The Kenyon Review is founded and edited by John Crowe Ransom. The American pulp science fiction magazine Startling Stories appears, edited by Mort Weisinger. It includes The Black Flame by Stanley G. Weinbaum as lead novel. Eando Binder's story "I, Robot" appears in the U.S. science fiction magazine Amazing Stories. The Criterion, a British literary quarterly, is founded and edited by T. S. Eliot. W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood set sail from England for the United States. January/February – Poetry London: a Bi-Monthly of Modern Verse and Criticism, founded and edited by Tambimuttu (with Dylan Thomas and others), is first published. February 6 – Raymond Chandler's California private detective Philip Marlowe is introduced in his first full-length work of crime fiction, The Big Sleep, which reworks elements from earlier short stories. It is published by Alfred A. Knopf in the United States. March – Isaac Asimov's first published short story, "Marooned off Vesta", appears in Astounding Science-Fiction magazine. March 4 – BBC Television broadcasts one of the first specially written television plays, Condemned To Be Shot by R. E. J. Brooke (perhaps the actor Reginald Brooke), live from its London studios at Alexandra Palace. The production notably uses a camera as the first-person view by the play's unseen central character. March 31 – 20th Century Fox releases a film version of The Hound of the Baskervilles, first of a Sherlock Holmes film series starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr Watson. April 13 – The United Artists film version of Wuthering Heights, starring Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier, is released. May – Jorge Luis Borges' first short story in his later characteristic style, "Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote", is published in the Buenos Aires literary magazine Sur. May 4 – James Joyce's last work, Finnegans Wake, is published in full by Faber and Faber in London. May 15 – Russian writer Isaac Babel is arrested by the NKVD at his dacha as part of the Great Purge in the Soviet Union, and incarcerated in the Lubyanka Building in Moscow. c. August – Ernest Vincent Wright publishes his lipogrammatic novel Gadsby, "a story of over 50,000 words without using the letter 'E'", in Los Angeles a few months before his death on October 7. August Mikhail Bulgakov, while secretly working on The Master and Margarita, prepares the propaganda play Batumi, to romanticize events in Joseph Stalin's youth. The project is shelved by Stalin himself once Bulgakov announces he will interview witnesses personally. Robert A. Heinlein's first published short story, "Life-Line", appears in Astounding Science-Fiction. Before September – After a pledge drive led by Renaud de Jouvenel and Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, the Romanian poet Benjamin Fondane is naturalized French and in September conscripted into the French Army, to serve in the Phony War. September 2 – Jean-Paul Sartre is conscripted into the French Army, where he will serve as a meteorologist. September 3 – Yorkshire-born novelist and playwright J. B. Priestley reads the first installment of his novel Let the People Sing, a celebration of local democracy specially written for radio, on BBC Home Service radio in the UK, the day war is declared. September 18 – The Polish painter, playwright and novelist Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (born 1885) commits suicide after the Soviet invasion of Poland. September/October – Famous Fantastic Mysteries, a pulp magazine reprinting American science fiction and fantasy, begins publication in New York. Fall – Frank Herbert lies about his age to get his first job as a local newspaper reporter. November – The teenage Brendan Behan is arrested in Liverpool for possessing explosives. November 8 – Lindsay and Crouse's stage adaptation of Clarence Day's Life with Father opens at the Empire Theatre (42nd Street) in New York. Running until 12 July 1947, it becomes the all-time longest-running non-musical play in Broadway theatre. November/December – Captain Marvel makes his first appearance, in Whiz Comics #2 (cover date February 1940). New books bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!—From Finnegans Wake Fiction Eric Ambler – The Mask of Dimitrios Sholem Asch – The Nazarene William Attaway – Let Me Breathe Thunder H. E. Bates – My Uncle Silas (short stories) Anthony Berkeley As for the Woman Death in the House Arna Wendell Bontemps – Drums at Dusk Phyllis Bottome – Danger Signal Marjorie Bowen – Blanche Fury Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon – The Elephant is White Lynn Brock Fourfingers The Riddle of the Roost John Brophy – Gentleman of Stratford Pearl S. Buck – The Patriot Victor Canning Fountain Inn The Viaduct Karel Čapek (posthumously) – Život a dílo skladatele Foltýna (Life and Work of the Composer Foltýn, translated as The Cheat, unfinished) Joyce Carey – Mister Johnson John Dickson Carr The Black Spectacles The Problem of the Wire Cage The Reader is Warned (as Carter Dickson) Drop to His Death (with John Rhode) Aimé Césaire – "Cahier d'un retour au pays natal" (in Volontés, August) Raymond Chandler – The Big Sleep James Hadley Chase – No Orchids for Miss Blandish Peter Cheyney – Dangerous Curves Agatha Christie Murder is Easy The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories Ten Little Niggers Freeman Wills Crofts – Fatal Venture Jeffrey Dell – Nobody Ordered Wolves Pierre Drieu La Rochelle – Gilles John Fante – Ask the Dust William Faulkner – If I Forget Thee Jerusalem (The Wild Palms/Old Man) Vardis Fisher – Children of God Zona Gale – Magna Konstantine Gamsakhurdia – The Right Hand of the Grand Master (დიდოსტატის კონსტანტინეს მარჯვენა) Anthony Gilbert The Clock in the Hatbox The Bell of Death F.L. Green – On the Night of the Fire Henry Green – Party Going Yaroslav Halan – The Mountains are Smoking Ernest Hemingway – The Snows of Kilimanjaro Rayner Heppenstall – The Blaze of Noon Anne Hocking – Old Mrs. Fitzgerald Zora Neale Hurston – Moses, Man of the Mountain Aldous Huxley – After Many a Summer Michael Innes – Stop Press Christopher Isherwood – Goodbye to Berlin James Joyce – Finnegans Wake Alan Kennington – The Night Has Eyes Arthur Koestler – The Gladiators Richard Llewellyn – How Green Was My Valley H. P. Lovecraft – The Outsider and Others Ngaio Marsh – Overture to Death Somerset Maugham – Christmas Holiday Henry Miller – Tropic of Capricorn Gladys Mitchell – Printer's Error Christopher Morley – Kitty Foyle Ian Niall (as John McNeillie) – Wigtown Ploughman Anaïs Nin – Winter of Artifice Flann O'Brien – At Swim-Two-Birds John O'Hara – Files on Parade Juan Carlos Onetti – El pozo (The Pit) E. Phillips Oppenheim – Sir Adam Disapp.... 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