1938

• The Unvanquished, a novel by William Faulkner (Random House).
• Sinister Crag, by "Newton Gale" (Maurice Guiness and Muna Lee) (Scribner's)
• Uncle Tom's Children: Four Novellas, by Richard Wright; expanded edition published that same year as Uncle Tom's Children: Five Novellas (Harper).
• Bright and Morning Star, a story by Richard Wright (International Publishers).

November 5: Robert W. Hamblin born in Jericho (Union County), Mississippi.