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The year 1936 in literature involved some significant events and new books. Events New books New drama <onlyinclude> Poetry See 1936 in poetry Non-fiction Births - January 10 - Stephen Ambrose, controversial historian (died 2002)
- January 22 - Joseph Wambaugh, author
- February 18 - Jean M. Auel, Earth's Children author
- April 30 - Viktor Likhonosov, Soviet writer and editor
- May 23 - Ian Kennedy Martin, scriptwriter
- June 23 - Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull author
- June 24 - J. H. Prynne, poet
- July 22 - Tom Robbins, novelist
- August 24 - A. S. Byatt, novelist
- September 20 - Andrew Davies, TV and film writer
- October 5 - V clav Havel, dramatist and first president of the Czech Republic (died 2011)
- November 17 - John Wells, satirical writer and actor (died 1998)
- November 20 - Don DeLillo, United States novelist
- date unknown - Duff Hart-Davis, biographer and journalist
Deaths - January 18 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer (born 1865) - Nobel prize for literature (1907)
- March 16 - Marguerite Durand, journalist
- April 30 - A. E. Housman, poet (born 1859)
- June 11 - Robert E. Howard, American fantasy writer (suicide)
- June 12 - M. R. James, writer of ghost stories (born 1862)
- June 14 - G. K. Chesterton, author (born 1874)
- June 14 - Maxim Gorky, dramatist (born 1868)
- August 15 - Grazia Deledda, Sardinian writer - Nobel prize for literature (1926)
- August 19 - Federico Garc a Lorca, dramatist and poet
- November 12 - Stefan Grabinski, "the Polish Poe"
- December 10 - Luigi Pirandello, dramatist and novelist (born 1867)
- December 28 - John Cornford, Communist poet
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