The year 1931 in literature involved some significant events and new books. [edit] Events [edit] New books [edit] New drama [edit] Non-fiction [edit] Births - January 6 - E. L. Doctorow, author
- January 9 - Algis Budrys, science fiction author
- January 10 - Peter Barnes, playwright
- January 17 - Mark Brandis, journalist and science fiction author
- January 27
- February 10 - Thomas Bernhard, author (d. 1989)
- February 11 - Larry Merchant, author/boxing commentator
- February 12 - Janwillem van de Wetering, crime writer
- February 18
- February 19 - Robert Sobel, business writer
- March 2 - Tom Wolfe, novelist
- April 21 - Gabriel de Broglie, historian
- April 29 - Robert Gottlieb, editor
- June 12 - Robin Cook, British novelist
- June 21 - Patricia Goedicke, poet
- July 4 - Sébastien Japrisot, novelist and screenwriter
- July 7 - David Eddings, American novelist
- July 10
- August 12 - William Goldman, author
- August 22 - Maurice Gee, novelist
- September 22 - Fay Weldon, novelist
- October 8 - Dennis Silk, friend of Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden
- October 19 - John le Carré, novelist
- November 18 - Nikoloz Janashia, historian
[edit] Deaths - January 26 - Graça Aranha, Brazilian diplomat and writer (b. 1868)
- March 27 - Arnold Bennett, novelist (b. 1867)
- April 4 - André Michelin, originator of the Michelin Guide (b. 1853)
- April 10 - Khalil Gibran, poet (b. 1883)
- June 29 - Nérée Beauchemin, poet (b. 1850)
- July 2 - Harald Høffding, Danish philosopher (b. 1843)
- August 1 - Bertha McNamara, pamphleteer and bookseller (b. 1853)
- August 15 - Delfín Chamorro, poet and language teacher (b. 1863)
- August 27 - Frank Harris, author and editor (b. 1856)
- August 31 - Hall Caine, author (b. 1853)
- October 13 - Ernst Didring, Swedish writer (b. 1868)
- October 21 - Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian dramatist (b. 1862)
- November 3 - Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, epic poet (b. 1855)
- November 5 - Ole Edvart Rolvaag, Norwegian-American writer (b. 1876)
- December 10 - Enrico Corradini, novelist, essayist and journalist (b. 1865)
- December 26 - Melvil Dewey, inventor of the most widely-used library classification system (b. 1851)
- December 27 - Alfred Perceval Graves, author and collector of songs and ballads (b. 1846)
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