1944 in literature

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The year 1944 in literature involved some significant new books.

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Samuel Hopkins Adams – Canal Town
Jorge Amado – Terras do Sem Fim (The Violent Land)
Saul Bellow – Dangling Man
Jorge Luis Borges – Fictions
Christianna Brand – Green for Danger
John Dickson Carr
- Till Death Do Us Part
- He Wouldn't Kill Patience (as by Carter Dickson)
Joyce Cary – The Horse's Mouth
Agatha Christie
- Death Comes as the End
- Towards Zero
- Absent in the Spring (as by Mary Westmacott)
Edmund Crispin – The Case of the Gilded Fly
Eric Linklater – The Wind on the Moon
A. J. Cronin – The Green Years
Esther Forbes – Johnny Tremain
Jean Genet – Notre Dame des Fleurs
John Hersey – A Bell for Adano
Georgette Heyer – Friday's Child
Charles R. Jackson – The Lost Weekend
Pär Lagerkvist – Dvärgen
Astrid Lindgren – Pippi Longstocking
H. P. Lovecraft – Marginalia
W. Somerset Maugham – The Razor's Edge
Oscar Micheaux – The Case of Mrs. Wingate
Alberto Moravia – Agostino (Two Adolescents)
Gunnar Myrdal – An American Dilemma
Feodor Rojankovsky – The Tall Book of Nursery Tales
Anya Seton – Dragonwyck
Clark Ashton Smith – Lost Worlds
Rex Stout – Not Quite Dead Enough
Phoebe Atwood Taylor – Dead Ernest (as by Alice Tilton)
Donald Wandrei – The Eye and the Finger
Martin Wickremasinghe – Gamperaliya
Henry S. Whitehead – Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales

Main article: 1944 in poetry

James K. Baxter – Beyond the Palisade
Paul Éluard – Au rendez-vous allemand (To the German Rendezvous)
Five Young American Poets, volume 3, including work by Eve Merriam, John Frederick Nims, Jean Garrigue, Tennessee Williams and Alejandro Carrión
Nicholas Moore – The Glass Tower

January 8 – Terry Brooks, writer of fantasy fiction
January 21 – Jack Abbott, murderer and acclaimed writer
February 7 – Witi Ihimaera, New Zealand Māori writer, author of The Whale Rider
February 14
- Alan Parker, director, writer
- Carl Bernstein, journalist
February 16 – Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist
May 13 – Armistead Maupin, novelist
May 17 – Uldis Bērziņš, poet and translator
May 18 – W. G. Sebald, novelist (d. 2001)
June 5 – John Fraser, journalist
August 18 – Paula Danziger, young adult book novelist
August 30 – Molly Ivins, journalist
October 2 – Vernor Vinge, science fiction novelist
October 5 – Tomás de Jesús Mangual, journalist
November 7 – Peter Wilby, journalist
November 24 – Eintou Pearl Springer, poet
November 28 – Rita Mae Brown, writer and political activist
December 17 – Jack L. Chalker, science fiction novelist
date unknown
- Tom Leonard, dialect poet
- Patrick O'Connell, poet (d. 2004)

January 6 – Ida M. Tarbell, journalist
January 8 – Joseph Jastrow, psychologist
January 31 – Jean Giraudoux, dramatist
February 10 – Israel Joshua Singer, Yiddish novelist
February 12 – Olive Custance, poet (b. 1874)
March 5
- Max Jacob, poet and critic
- Alun Lewis, war poet (accidental shooting)
March 28 – Stephen Leacock, economist
May 3 – Anica Černej, Slovenian poet (b. 1900) (concentration camp victim)
May 12 – Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, "Q"
May 16 – George Ade, journalist and dramatist
June
- Joseph Campbell, poet (b. 1879)
- Elizabeth Wharton Drexel, socialite and author
June 9 – Keith Douglas, war poet
June 16 – Marc Bloch, historian
July 31 – Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer (b. 1900)
September 13 – W. Heath Robinson, cartoonist and illustrator
October 19 – Karel Poláček, writer, humourist, journalist
November 15 – Edith Durham, travel writer (b. 1863)
December 17 – Robert Nichols, poet and dramatist (b. 1893)
December 30 – Romain Rolland, Nobel Prize winning author
date unknown – Ethel Lina White, crime novelist

Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Eric Linklater, The Wind on the Moon
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Forrest Reid, Young Tom
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: C. V. Wedgwood, William the Silent
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain
Nobel Prize for literature: Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
Premio Nadal (first award): Carmen Laforet, Nada
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Martin Flavin, Journey in the Dark
E.E. Cummings receives the Shelley Memorial Award for Poetry.