Light in August
1932 novel by the Southern American author William Faulkner
1930s
My Family and Other Animals
Autobiographical book by British naturalist Gerald Durrell
As I Lay Dying
1930 Southern Gothic novel by American author William Faulkner
Enemies of Promise
Critical and autobiographical work written by Cyril Connolly first published in 1938.It comprises three parts, the first dedicated to Connolly’s observations about English literature and the English literary world of his time, the second a list of adverse elements that affect the ability to be a good writer and the last an account of Connolly’s early life
The Road from Coorain
Australian-American scholar and author
The Big Sleep
Hardboiled crime novel by American-British writer Raymond Chandler, the first to feature the detective Philip Marlowe
The Good Earth
Historical fiction novel by American author Pearl S. Buck published in 1931 that dramatizes family life in a Chinese village in the early 20th century
Madeline
Media franchise that originated as a series of children’s books written and illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans, an Austrian-American author
Robert Lee Brewer
American former figure skater
Stanley Fish
American literary theorist, legal scholar, author and public intellectual