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1938 Best Book Awards

Carnegie Medal
The Family from One End Street by Eve Garnett (winner)

1938 Lifetime Achievement Awards

Nobel Prize in Literature
Pearl S Buck (winner)

Authors born in 1938

David Aaron
David Abbott
Allan Ahlberg
Donna Anders
Anne Avery
Sharon Baker
Michael Bar-Zohar
Frank Barnard
John Bellairs
Win Blevins
Lawrence Block
Judy Blume
Anne Cameron
Raymond Carver
Robert Charles
Robert Conroy
W J Corbett
William Corlett
Sara Craven
Myrna Culbreath
Barbara D'Amato
Dianne Day
Shashi Deshpande
Ron Ely
Margaret Forster
Frederick Forsyth
Christine Marion Fraser
Nancy Garden
Jean Giraud
Judith Gorog
Ginna Gray
Gary Gygax
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Dean Hargrove
John Harvey
Jack Hodgins
David Houston
T E Huff
Susan Hufford
Angela Huth
Arturo Islas
Jon A Jackson
Iris Johansen
William W Johnstone
Sudhir Kakar
Terry Kay
Marvin Kaye
Jerry Kennealy
Norma Klein
Michael Kurland
Jennifer Lash
Edith Layton
Justin Leiber
Alan Lelchuk
Billie Letts
Graciela Limón
Robert Lipsyte
Bette Bao Lord
Jean Lorrah
Eric McCormack
Patricia MacLachlan
Clemence McLaren
Derek Marlowe
Allan Massie
Dalene Matthee
Marlys Millhiser
Mudrooroo
Amy Myers
Shizuko Natsuki
Jay Neugeboren
Andrea Newman
Larry Niven
Joyce Carol Oates
Andrew Osmond
Francine Pascal
Tito Perdue
Anne Perry
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Darryl Ponicsan
David Pownall
Ishmael Reed
Maureen Reynolds
Robert J Rosenblum
Bapsi Sidhwa
Alice Taylor
Jeri Taylor
Roger Taylor
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Joyce Carol Thomas
Roland Topor
Tom Topor
Lily Tuck
T A Waters
Charles Gidley Wheeler
Ted White
Urs Widmer
Patricia Windsor
Terry Wogan
Stuart Woods
M K Wren
Janusz A Zajdel

Authors who died in 1938

Max Blecher
Karel Čapek
Zona Gale
Friedrich Glauser
Johnny Gruelle
Edgar Jepson
Owen Wister
Thomas Wolfe