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The year 1931 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events New books New drama <onlyinclude> Non-fiction 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 (died 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 (died 1994)
- June 21 - Patricia Goedicke, poet
- July 4 - S bastien Japrisot, novelist and screenwriter
- July 7 - David Eddings, American novelist (died 2009)
- 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 Carr , novelist
- November 18 - Nikoloz Janashia, historian
Deaths - January 26 - Gra a Aranha, Brazilian diplomat and writer (born 1868)
- March 27 - Arnold Bennett, novelist (born 1867)
- April 4 - Andr Michelin, originator of the Michelin Guide (born 1853)
- April 10 - Khalil Gibran, poet (born 1883)
- June 29 - N r e Beauchemin, poet (born 1850)
- July 2 - Harald H ffding, Danish philosopher (born 1843)
- August 1 - Bertha McNamara, pamphleteer and bookseller (born 1853)
- August 15 - Delf n Chamorro, poet and language teacher (born 1863)
- August 27 - Frank Harris, author and editor (born 1856)
- August 31 - Hall Caine, author (born 1853)
- October 13 - Ernst Didring, Swedish writer (born 1868)
- October 21 - Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian dramatist (born 1862)
- November 3 - Juan Zorrilla de San Mart n, epic poet (born 1855)
- November 5 - Ole Edvart Rolvaag, Norwegian-American writer (born 1876)
- December 10 - Enrico Corradini, novelist, essayist and journalist (born 1865)
- December 26 - Melvil Dewey, inventor of the most widely-used library classification system (born 1851)
- December 27 - Alfred Perceval Graves, author and collector of songs and ballads (born 1846)
- December 31 - Ieronim Yasinsky, writer, poet and essayist (born 1850)
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