1944 in literature

See also: 1943 in literature, other events of 1944, 1945 in literature, list of years in literature.

Deaths

• January 6 - Ida M. Tarbell, journalist
• January 31 - Jean Giraudoux, dramatist
• February 10 - Israel Joshua Singer, Yiddish novelist
• March 5 - Alun Lewis, war poet
• March 28 - Stephen Leacock, economist
• May 12 - Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, "Q"
• June 9 - Keith Douglas, war poet
• June 16 - Marc Bloch, historian
• July 31 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer
• September 13 - W. Heath Robinson, British cartoonist and illustrator
• December 30 - Romain Rolland, Nobel Prize winning author
• date unknown - Robert Nichols, poet and dramatist
• date unknown - Joseph Campbell, poet
• date unknown - Ethel Lina White, crime novelist
• date unknown - Olive Custance, poet