Editing 1921 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1921'''.
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==Events==
*[[January 1]] – The publishing firm [[Jonathan Cape]] is founded in [[Bloomsbury]], London, by Herbert Jonathan Cape and [[Wren Howard]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Bookseller |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aOxOAAAAIAAJ |year=1970 |publisher=J. Whitaker |page=2640}}</ref>
*February – [[Margaret Caroline Anderson]] and [[Jane Heap]], publishers of ''[[The Little Review]]'', are [[Obscenity trial of Ulysses in The Little Review|convicted of obscenity]] in a [[New York City|New York]] court for publishing the "Nausicaa" episode of [[James Joyce]]'s ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ellmann |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Ellmann |title=James Joyce |url=https://archive.org/details/jamesjoyce00361 |url-access=registration |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1982 |location=New York |pages=[https://archive.org/details/jamesjoyce00361/page/502 502–04] |isbn=0-1950-3103-2}}</ref>
*March – [[Jorge Luis Borges]] returns to his native [[Buenos Aires]] in [[Argentina]] after a period living with his family in Europe.
*[[April 20]] – The Hungarian [[Ferenc Molnár]]'s play ''[[Liliom]]'' is first produced on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] in English.
*[[May 9]] – The première of [[Luigi Pirandello]]'s ''[[Six Characters in Search of an Author]] (Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore)'' at the [[Teatro Valle]] in Rome divides the audience.
*May – A production of ''[[Pericles, Prince of Tyre]]'' directed by Robert Atkins at [[The Old Vic]], London, restores the unexpurgated text for the first time since Shakespeare's day.
*[[June 6]] – The première of [[Tristan Tzara]]'s parodic ''[[The Gas Heart]] (Le Cœur à gaz)'' takes place at a [[Dada]] Salon at the Galerie Montaigne in Paris. It provokes audience derision.
*[[June 10]] – [[D. H. Lawrence]]'s novel ''[[Women in Love]]'' is first published commercially by [[Martin Secker]] in London.
*[[September 5]] – The [[Cervantes Theatre (Buenos Aires)]] opens with a production of [[Lope de Vega]]'s ''[[La dama boba]]'' (The Foolish Lady, [[1613 in literature|1613]]).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.teatrocervantes.gov.ar/sitio/site/home/home.php |title=Teatro Nacional Cervantes |language=es |access-date=2014-01-14}}</ref>
*[[September 26]] – The [[Maddermarket Theatre]] in [[Norwich]], England, an old chapel, is turned into an [[English Renaissance theatre]] for period drama by an amateur [[Repertory theatre|repertory company]] directed by [[Walter Nugent Monck]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Norwich Players' New Theatre |newspaper=[[The Times]] |location=London |date=1921-09-27 |page=8 |issue=42836}}</ref> It opens with ''[[As You Like It]]''.
*[[December 9]] – [[John William Gott]] becomes the last person in England imprisoned for [[blasphemous libel]].
*[[December 31]] – [[Mexican poetry|Mexican poet]] [[Manuel Maples Arce]] distributes the first [[Stridentism|Stridentist]] manifesto, ''Comprimido estridentista'', in the broadsheet ''Actual'' No. 1 in Mexico City.

==New books==
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===Fiction===
*[[Elizabeth von Arnim]] - ''[[Vera (von Arnim novel)|Vera]]''<ref>{{cite book |last= Römhild |first= Juliane  |title=  Femininity and Authorship in the Novels of Elizabeth von Arnim: At Her Most Radiant Moment |access-date= 9 September 2018 |year= 2014 |publisher= Rowman & Littlefield |isbn= 9781611477047 |page= 116 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-p_0AwAAQBAJ&q=%22elizabeth+von+arnim%22+%22vera%22&pg=PA116}}</ref>
*[[Ryūnosuke Akutagawa]] – "[[Autumn Mountain]]" (秋山, ''Akiyama'')<ref>{{cite book|title= Modern Japanese Stories|last= Morris|first= Ivan|author-link= Ivan Morris|year= 1992|orig-year= 1962|publisher= [[Tuttle Publishing]]|isbn= 0-8048-1226-8|page=174}}</ref>
*[[Edgar Rice Burroughs]] – ''[[Tarzan the Terrible]]''<ref>{{cite book|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries: Books. Part 1, group 1.|publisher=Library of Congress, Copyright Office|year=1922|page=433}}</ref>
*[[Karel Čapek]] – ''Trapné povídky'' (Embarrassing Stories, translated as ''Money and other stories'')<ref>{{cite book|title=New Makers of Modern Culture|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2016|ISBN=9781136768828|page=255}}</ref>
*[[Mary Cholmondeley]] – ''The Romance of His Life and Other Romances''<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=W de la L Oulton |editor1-first=Carolyn |editor2-last=Schatz |editor2-first=SueAnn |title=Mary Cholmondeley Reconsidered |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781317315827 |page=6 |chapter=Introduction}}</ref>
*[[Walter de la Mare]] – ''[[Memoirs of a Midget]]''<ref name="Dirda">[[Michael Dirda]], ''Classics for Pleasure'' (New York: Harcourt, 2007), p. 144.</ref>
*[[Ethel M. Dell]] - ''The Obstacle Race''
*[[Mary Frances Dowdall]] – ''Three Loving Ladies''
*[[Edna Ferber]] - ''The Girls''
*[[Fran Saleški Finžgar]] – ''[[Pod svobodnim soncem]]'' (Under the free sun)
*[[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] – ''[[The Beautiful and Damned]]'' (serialized in [[Metropolitan Magazine (New York)|''Metropolitan Magazine'' (New York)]])
*[[Mikkjel Fønhus]] – ''[[Troll-Elgen]]''<ref>{{Cite book |first=Kristian |last=Elster |author-link=Kristian Elster (born 1881) |title=Illustreret Norsk litteraturhistorie |volume=2 |page=808 |language=no |year=1924 |publisher=Gyldendal |location=Kristiania}}</ref>
*[[John Galsworthy]] – ''To Let'' (last book of ''[[The Forsyte Saga]]'')
*[[H. Rider Haggard]] – ''[[She and Allan]]''
*[[A. P. Herbert]] – ''[[The House by the River]]''
*[[Georgette Heyer]] – ''[[The Black Moth]]''
*[[E. M. Hull]]  – ''[[The Shadow of the East]]''
*[[Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson|A. S. M. Hutchinson]] – [[If Winter Comes (novel)|''If Winter Comes'']]<ref>{{Cite book |first=Q. D. |last=Leavis |author-link=Q. D. Leavis |title=Fiction and the Reading Public |edition=rev. |location=London |publisher=Chatto & Windus |year=1965}}</ref>
*[[Aldous Huxley]] – ''[[Crome Yellow]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Aldous Huxley|title=Crome Yellow|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SQJ70RXjL5wC|year=2001|publisher=Dalkey Archive Press|isbn=978-1-56478-304-2}}</ref>
*[[Frigyes Karinthy]] – ''[[Capillaria]]''
*[[Sheila Kaye-Smith]] – ''[[Joanna Godden]]''
*[[Gaston Leroux]] – ''[[The Crime of Rouletabille]]''
*[[Marie Belloc Lowndes]] – ''[[What Timmy Did]]''
*[[Denis Mackail]] – ''Romance to the Rescue''
*[[Compton Mackenzie]] – ''[[Rich Relatives]]''<ref>Andro Linklater. ''Compton Mackenzie: A Life'' Hogarth Press, 1992. Page 336</ref>
*[[René Maran]] – ''Batouala''
*[[Lucy Maud Montgomery|L. M. Montgomery]] – ''[[Rilla of Ingleside]]''
*[[George Moore (novelist)|George Moore]] – ''[[Heloise and Abelard]]''
*[[Paul Morand]] – ''[[Tender Shoots]]'' (''Tendres stocks'', short stories)
* [[E. Phillips Oppenheim]] – ''[[Jacob's Ladder (Oppenheim novel)|Jacob's Ladder]]''
*[[Baroness Orczy]]
**''Castles in the Air'' (short stories)
**''[[The First Sir Percy]]''
*[[Alejandro Pérez Lugín]] – ''[[Currito of the Cross (novel)|Currito of the Cross]] (Currito de la Cruz)''
*[[Gene Stratton Porter]] – ''Her Father's Daughter''
*[[Marcel Proust]]
**''The Guermantes Way'' (''Le Côté de Guermantes II'', second part of vol. 3 of ''[[In Search of Lost Time]]'')
**''Sodom and Gomorrah'' (''Sodome et Gomorrhe I'', first part of vol. 4 of ''[[In Search of Lost Time]]'')
*[[Sukumar Ray]] – ''[[HaJaBaRaLa]]''
*[[Iñigo Ed. Regalado]] – ''[[May Pagsinta'y Walang Puso]]''
*[[Dorothy Richardson]] - ''Deadlock''
*[[Berta Ruck]] - ''Sweet Stranger''
*[[Rafael Sabatini]] – ''[[Scaramouche (novel)|Scaramouche]]''
*[[Naoya Shiga]] – ''[[A Dark Night's Passing]]'' (暗夜行路, ''An'ya Kōro''; serialized 1921–37)
*[[May Sinclair]] - ''Mr. Waddington of Wyck''
*[[Annie M. Smithson]] - ''Carmen Cavanagh''
*[[Booth Tarkington]] – ''[[Alice Adams (novel)|Alice Adams]]''
*[[Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy]] – ''[[The Road to Calvary]]'' (publication begins)
*[[Sigrid Undset]] – ''Husfrue'' (The Wife or The Mistress of Husaby, second part of ''[[Kristin Lavransdatter]]'')
*[[Edgar Wallace]] 
**''[[The Book of All Power]]''
**''[[The Law of the Four Just Men]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Edgar Wallace|title=The Four Just Men|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bICYDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT99|date=3 March 2010|publisher=House of Stratus|isbn=978-0-7551-2247-9|pages=99}}</ref>
*[[Eugene Walter (playwright)|Eugene Walter]] – ''The Byzantine Riddle and other stories''
* [[Arthur Weigall]] – ''[[Burning Sands (novel)|Burning Sands]]''
*[[Virginia Woolf]] – ''[[Monday or Tuesday]]''
*[[Elinor Wylie]] – ''[[Nets to Catch the Wind]]''
*[[Francis Brett Young]] 
**''[[The Black Diamond (novel)|The Black Diamond]]''
**''[[The Red Knight (novel)|The Red Knight]]''
*[[Yevgeny Zamyatin]] – ''[[We (novel)|We]]'' (Мы; completed)

===Children and young people===
*[[Dorita Fairlie Bruce]] – ''[[Dimsie Goes to School|The Senior Prefect]]'' (later entitled ''Dimsie Goes to School'')
*[[Eleanor Farjeon]] – ''Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard''
*[[Charles Boardman Hawes]] – ''The Great Quest''
*[[Hendrik Willem van Loon]] – ''[[The Story of Mankind]]'' (non-fiction)
*[[Else Ury]] – ''[[Nesthäkchen Flies From the Nest]]''<ref>{{Cite book |author1=Rudolf Käser |author2=Beate Schappach |title=Krank geschrieben: Gesundheit und Krankheit im Diskursfeld von Literatur, Geschlecht und Medizin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SF4WBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA147 |date=31 October 2014 |publisher=transcript Verlag |isbn=978-3-8394-1760-7 |pages=147 |language=de}}</ref>

===Drama===
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*[[Hjalmar Bergman]] – ''Farmor och vår Herre'' (Grandmother and Our Lord, translated as ''Thy Rod and Thy Staff'')
* [[Dorothy Brandon]] – ''[[Araminta Arrives]]''
*[[Karel Čapek]] – ''[[R.U.R.|R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)]]'' (performed)
*Karel and [[Josef Čapek]] – ''[[Pictures from the Insects' Life]]'' (''Ze života hmyzu'', published)
*[[Clemence Dane]] – ''[[A Bill of Divorcement (play)|A Bill of Divorcement]]''
*[[Brandon Fleming (writer)|Brandon Fleming]] – ''[[The Eleventh Commandment (play)|The Eleventh Commandment]]''
*[[Gerald du Maurier]] – ''[[Bulldog Drummond (play)|Bulldog Drummond]]'' (with H.C. McNeile)
*[[Susan Glaspell]] – ''[[Inheritors (play)|Inheritors]]'' (written) and ''The Verge'' (performed)
*[[Ian Hay]] – ''[[A Safety Match (play)|A Safety Match]]''
*[[A. de Herz]] – ''Mărgeluș'' (Tiny Bead)
*[[Avery Hopwood]] – ''[[The Demi-Virgin]]''
*[[A. A. Milne]] – ''[[The Truth About Blayds]]''
*[[René Morax]] – ''Le Roi David''
*[[Roland Pertwee]] – ''[[Out to Win (play)|Out to Win]]''
*[[Luigi Pirandello]] – ''[[Six Characters in Search of an Author]]''
*[[Sophie Treadwell]] - ''Rights''
*[[Tristan Tzara]] – ''[[The Gas Heart]]''
* [[Edgar Wallace]] – ''[[M'Lady (play)|M'Lady]]''
*[[Raden Adipati Aria Muharam Wiranatakusumah]] – ''[[Lutung Kasarung]]''
*[[Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz]] – ''The Water Hen (Kurka Wodna)''</onlyinclude>

===Poetry===
{{Main article|1921 in poetry}}
*[[Robert Frost]] – ''[[Mountain Interval]]'' (second print)
*[[Langston Hughes]] – "[[The Negro Speaks of Rivers]]", in ''[[The Crisis]]''
*[[Amy Lowell]] - ''Legends''
*[[Katherine Tynan]] - ''The Handsome Brandons''
*[[William Carlos Williams]] – ''[[Sour Grapes (book)|Sour Grapes]]''
*[[William Butler Yeats]] – ''[[Michael Robartes and the Dancer]]''

===Non-fiction===
*[[Adolphe Appia]] – ''L'Œuvre d'art vivant'' (The Living Work of Art)
*[[Charles Bean]] (ed.) – ''[[Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918]]'', vol. 1
*[[Joseph Chaikov]] – ''[[Skulptur]]'' (first [[Yiddish]]-language work on the subject)<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fPjpAAAAMAAJ&q=skulptur |title=Tradition and revolution: the Jewish renaissance in Russian avant-garde art, 1912-1928 |first=Ruth |last=Apter-Gabriel |publisher=Israel Museum |year=1987 |page=67|isbn=9789652780713 }}</ref>
*[[Grace King]]– ''Creole Families of New Orleans''
*[[Frank H. Knight]] – ''Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit''
*[[D. H. Lawrence]]
**''[[Sea and Sardinia]]''
**(as Lawrence H. Davison) – ''[[Movements in European History]]''
*[[North-West Frontier Province]] – ''Administration Report of the North-west Frontier Province for 1922-23''
*[[Edward Sapir]] – ''Language: an introduction to the study of speech''
*[[Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk]] – ''[[Capital and Interest|Further Essays on Capital and Interest]]''
*[[Ludwig Wittgenstein]] – ''[[Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus]]''
*[[Zitkala-Sa]] – ''[[American Indian Stories]]''

==Births==
*[[January 5]] – [[Friedrich Dürrenmatt]], Swiss writer (died [[1990 in literature|1990]])
*[[January 19]] – [[Patricia Highsmith]], American crime writer (died [[1995 in literature|1995]])
*[[January 21]] – [[Charles Eric Maine]], English science fiction writer (died [[1981 in literature|1981]])
*[[February 4]] – [[Betty Friedan]], American feminist author (died [[2006 in literature|2006]])
*[[February 5]] – [[Marion Eames]], Welsh novelist writing mainly in Welsh (died [[2007 in literature|2007]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s8-EAME-MAR-1921|title=Eames, Marion Griffith (1921-2007), historical novelist|author= J. Beverley Smith|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=6 March 2021}}</ref>
*[[February 15]] – [[Radha Krishna Choudhary]], Indian historian and writer (died [[1985 in literature|1985]])
*[[March 1]] – [[Richard Wilbur]], American poet and translator (died [[2017 in literature|2017]])
*[[March 3]] – [[Paul Guimard]], French novelist (died [[2004 in literature|2004]])
*[[March 24]] – [[Wilson Harris]], Guyanese-born poet, novelist and essayist (died [[2018 in literature|2018]])
*[[April 21]] – [[Angela Bianchini]], Italian fiction writer and literary critic (died 2018)
*[[May 20]] – [[Wolfgang Borchert]], German author and playwright (died [[1947 in literature|1947]])
*[[May 23]]
**[[James Blish]], American science fiction author (died [[1975 in literature|1975]])
**[[Ray Lawler]], Australian dramatist (died [[2024]])
*[[May 29]]
**[[Mona Van Duyn]], American poet (died [[2004 in literature|2004]])
**[[Henry Scholberg]], American bibliographer (died [[2012 in literature|2012]])
*[[June 11]] – [[Michael Meyer (translator)|Michael Meyer]], English translator and biographer (died [[2000 in literature|2000]])
*[[June 12]] – [[Christopher Derrick]], English author, critic, and academic (died [[2007 in literature|2007]])<ref>[http://www.thomasaquinas.edu/news/newsletter/2007/fall/derrick_article.html Obituary] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121204255/http://thomasaquinas.edu/news/newsletter/2007/fall/derrick_article.html |date=21 November 2008 }} in Thomas Aquinas College Newsletter, Fall 2007.</ref>
*[[June 14]] – [[John Bradburne]], English poet and missionary (killed [[1979 in literature|1979]])
*[[August 11]] – [[Alex Haley]], American writer (died [[1992 in literature|1992]])
*[[August 17]] – [[Elinor Lyon]], British children's writer (died [[2008 in literature|2008]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/elinor-lyon-author-of-camping-and-tramping-adventure-tales-peopled-with-feisty-fearless-girls-and-boys-841356.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/elinor-lyon-author-of-camping-and-tramping-adventure-tales-peopled-with-feisty-fearless-girls-and-boys-841356.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Elinor Lyon: Author of 'camping and tramping' adventure tales peopled with feisty, fearless girls and boys|date=23 October 2011|website=The Independent|access-date=20 January 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
*[[August 18]] – [[Frédéric Jacques Temple]], French poet and writer (died [[2020 in literature|2020]])
*[[August 25]] – [[Brian Moore (novelist)|Brian Moore]], Northern Irish-Canadian writer (died [[1999 in literature|1999]])
*[[September 12]] – [[Stanisław Lem]], Polish science fiction novelist, philosopher, satirist and physician (died [[2006 in literature|2006]])
*[[September 15]] – [[Richard Gordon (English author)|Richard Gordon]], English author (died [[2017 in literature|2017]])
*[[September 16]] – [[Mohamed Talbi]], Tunisian historian (died [[2017 in literature|2017]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Ataullah Siddiqui|title=Christian-Muslim Dialogue in the Twentieth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZafJ7LR0a2oC&pg=PA136|date=15 April 1997|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-0-312-16510-9|pages=136}}</ref>
*[[September 26]] – [[Cyprian Ekwensi]], Nigerian writer (died [[2007 in literature|2007]])
*[[October 2]] – [[Edmund Crispin]] (Robert Bruce Montgomery), English crime writer (died [[1978 in literature|1978]])<ref>{{cite ODNB | url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-31461 | isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 | doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/31461 | title=Montgomery, (Robert) Bruce &#91;pseud. Edmund Crispin&#93; (1921–1978), composer and detective novelist }}</ref>
*[[October 9]] – [[Tadeusz Różewicz]], Polish poet, dramatist and writer (died [[2014 in literature|2014]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/04/tadeusz-rozewicz|title=Tadeusz Różewicz obituary|date=4 May 2014|author=Katarzyna Zechenter|website=The Guardian|access-date=9 July 2024}}</ref>
*[[October 17]] – [[George Mackay Brown]], Scottish poet (died [[1996 in literature|1996]])<ref>Maggie Fergusson, ''George Mackay Brown: The Life'', [[John Murray (publishing house)|John Murray]], 2006, {{ISBN|0-7195-5659-7}} p. 8</ref> 
*[[November 6]] – [[James Jones (author)|James Jones]], American novelist (died [[1977 in literature|1977]])
*[[November 22]] – [[Brian Cleeve]], Irish author (died [[2003 in literature|2003]])
*[[December 20]] – [[Israil Bercovici]], Romanian dramatist and historian (died [[1988 in literature|1988]])

==Deaths==
*[[February 6]] – [[Abba Goold Woolson]], American author and poet (born [[1838 in literature|1838]])
*[[February 17]] – [[Rosetta Luce Gilchrist]], American physician, author (born [[1850 in literature|1850]])
*[[February 24]] – [[John Habberton]], American critic (born [[1842 in literature|1842]])<ref>[http://henryaltemus.com/blog/?p=2098 Non Series #138- Trif and Trixy // John Habberton autograph 7 March 2012. Accessed 9 January 2012.]</ref>
*[[March 22]] – [[E. W. Hornung]], English author (born [[1866 in literature|1866]])
*[[April 6]] – [[Maximilian Berlitz]], German-born American textbook writer and language school proprietor (born [[1852 in literature|1852]])
*[[May 5]] – [[Alfred Hermann Fried]], Austrian publicist (born [[1864 in literature|1864]])
*[[May 12]] – [[Emilia Pardo Bazán]], Spanish novelist (born [[1851 in literature|1851]])<ref>{{EB1911|wstitle=Pardo Bazán, Emilia|volume=20|page=801|first=James|last=Fitzmaurice-Kelly|authorlink=James Fitzmaurice-Kelly}}</ref>
*[[May 13]] – [[Jean Aicard]], French writer (born [[1848 in literature|1848]])
*June – [[N. D. Popescu-Popnedea]], Romanian novelist, folklorist, archivist and almanac compiler (born [[1843 in literature|1843]])
*[[June 5]] – [[Georges Feydeau]], French playwright (born [[1862 in literature|1862]])
*[[June 18]] – [[Eduardo Acevedo Díaz]], Uruguayan writer (born [[1851 in literature|1851]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Carlos A. Solé|author2=Maria Isabel Abreu|title=Latin American Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5bRZAAAAYAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Scribner|isbn=978-0-684-18597-2|page=299}}</ref>
*[[June 20]] – [[Mary Lynde Craig]], American writer, teacher, attorney, activist (born [[1834 in literature|1834]])
*[[June 26]] – [[Alfred Percy Sinnett]], English Theosophist author (born [[1840 in literature|1840]])
*[[July 4]] – [[Antoni Grabowski]], Polish Esperantist (born [[1857 in literature|1857]])<ref>Julius Glück, ''El la klasika periodo de Esperanto (Grabowski kaj Kabe)'', en Muusses Esperanto Biblioteko No. 5, Purmerend, 1937. p. 6.</ref>
*[[July 7]] – [[Luca Caragiale]], Romanian poet, novelist and translator (pneumonia, born [[1893 in literature|1893]])
*[[August 1]] – [[Helen Vickroy Austin]], American journalist and horticulturist (born [[1829 in literature|1829]])
*[[August 7]] – [[Alexander Blok]], Russian poet (born [[1880 in literature|1880]])
*[[August 8]] – [[Juhani Aho]], Finnish author and journalist (born [[1861 in literature|1861]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kansallisbiografia.fi/kb/artikkeli/2806/|title=Aho, Juhani (1861–1921)|work=kansallisbiografia.fi|accessdate=1 December 2015}}</ref>
*[[August 19]] – [[Georges Darien]], French anarchist writer (born [[1862 in literature|1862]])
*[[August 25]] – [[Nikolay Gumilev]], Russian poet (executed, born [[1886 in literature|1886]])
*[[September 3]] - [[Maria I. Johnston]], American author, journalist, editor and lecturer (born [[1835 in literature|1835]])
*[[September 22]] - [[Ivan Vazov]], Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright (born [[1850 in literature|1850]])<ref>{{Cite book |author=Frank Northen Magill |title=Masterplots Cyclopedia of World Authors |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OdVOAQAAMAAJ |year=1958 |publisher=Salem Press |page=1106}}</ref>
*[[September 26]] – [[Matei Donici]], Bessarabian Romanian poet and professional soldier (born [[1847 in literature|1847]])
*[[October 1]] – [[Lillian Rozell Messenger]], American poet (born [[1843 in literature|1843]])<ref>{{cite news |title=OBITUARY. MRS. LILLIAN MESSENGER. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31056494/lillian-rozell-messenger/ |access-date=28 August 2022 |work=Daily Arkansas Gazette |date=7 October 1921 |page=14}}</ref>
*[[October 10]] – [[Otto von Gierke]], German historian (born [[1841 in literature|1841]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Otto von Gierke|title=Community in Historical Perspective|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GMQ4gwm31kEC&pg=PR11|date=2 May 2002|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-89323-7|pages=11}}</ref>
*[[November 1]] – [[Sarah Dyer Hobart]], American author of poetry, prose, and songs (born 1845/46)<ref>{{cite news|title=Poetess Buried |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/80759415/sarah-dyer-hobart-1845-1921/ |newspaper=Wisconsin State Journal |date=November 6, 1921 |location=Madison, WI |page=5 |via = [[Newspapers.com]] |access-date=July 4, 2021}} {{Open access}}</ref>
*[[November 8]] – [[Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav]], Slovak poet, dramatist and translator (born [[1849 in literature|1849]])
*[[November 14]] – [[Christabel Rose Coleridge]], English novelist and editor (born [[1843 in literature|1843]])
*[[December 28]] – [[Hester A. Benedict]], American poet (born [[1838 in literature|1838]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Obituary of Hester Baldwin Benedict Dickinson |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15483661/obituary-of-hester-baldwin-benedict/ |access-date=24 August 2022 |work=Oakland Tribune |date=29 December 1921 |pages=10 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>
*''date unknown''
**[[Emma Churchman Hewitt]], American author and journalist (born [[1850 in literature|1850]]){{cn|date=December 2022}}
**[[Della Campbell MacLeod]], American author and journalist (born ca. [[1884 in literature|1884]]) {{cn|date=December 2022}}

==Awards==
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for fiction: [[Walter de la Mare]], ''Memoirs of a Midget''<ref name="Dirda"/>
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for biography: [[Lytton Strachey]], ''[[Queen Victoria]]''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lytton-Strachey|title=Lytton Strachey {{!}} British biographer|work=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=2018-01-15}}</ref>
*[[Nobel Prize in Literature]]: [[Anatole France]]
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]]: [[Zona Gale]], ''[[Miss Lulu Bett (play)|Miss Lulu Bett]]''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]: ''no award given''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for the Novel]]: [[Edith Wharton]], ''[[The Age of Innocence]]''

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