Editing 1924 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1924'''.
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==Events==
*January
**Writer [[Miguel de Unamuno]] is dismissed for the first time from his university posts by the Spanish dictator General [[Miguel Primo de Rivera]] and goes into exile on [[Fuerteventura]] in the [[Canary Islands]].
**[[Richard L. Simon]] and [[M. Lincoln Schuster|M. Lincoln ("Max") Schuster]] establish the [[New York City]] [[publisher]] [[Simon & Schuster]], which initially specializes in [[crossword puzzle]] books.<ref>{{Cite book |first=Frederick Lewis |last=Allen |author-link=Frederick Lewis Allen |title=Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s |year=1931 |page=[https://archive.org/details/onlyyesterdayin000alle/page/165 165] |isbn=0-06-095665-8 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/onlyyesterdayin000alle/page/165}}</ref>
*[[January 15]] – The world's first [[radio play]], ''Danger'' by [[Richard Hughes (writer)|Richard Hughes]], is broadcast by the [[British Broadcasting Company|B.B.C.]] from its London studios.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thestage.co.uk/features/feature.php/7692/mining-the-seams-of-radio-history-richard |work=The Stage |title=Mining the seams of radio history}}</ref>
*[[February 2]] – A largely rewritten version of [[Roi Cooper Megrue]] and [[Walter Hackett]]'s [[1914 in literature|1914]] [[farce]] ''[[It Pays to Advertise (play)|It Pays to Advertise]]'' opens in a production by actor-manager [[Tom Walls]], at the [[Aldwych Theatre]] in London. It runs until 10 July 1925, a total of 598 performances, as the first in a sequence of twelve [[Aldwych farce]]s.<ref>{{Cite news |title=New Play at the Aldwych |newspaper=[[The Times]] |location=London |date=2 February 1924 |page=8}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Mr. Ralph Lynn |newspaper=The Times |date=10 August 1962 |page=11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=The Theatres |newspaper=The Times |date=25 June 1925 |page=12}}</ref>
*[[March 3]] – [[Seán O'Casey]]'s drama ''[[Juno and the Paycock]]'' opens at the [[Abbey Theatre]], [[Dublin]].<ref name=jp/>
*March
**[[Leonard Woolf|Leonard]] and [[Virginia Woolf]] move themselves and the [[Hogarth Press]] back to a house in [[Bloomsbury]] at 52 [[Tavistock Square]], London.
**''[[Weird Tales]]'' magazine publishes [[H. P. Lovecraft]]'s story "[[The Rats in the Walls]]" in the United States.
*April – [[Ford Madox Ford]] publishes the first of four volumes set around [[World War I]], titled ''[[Parade's End]]''. It is completed in [[1928 in literature|1928]].
*[[April 12]] – The Indian poet [[Rabindranath Tagore]] arrives in China, where his views prove controversial.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ignca.nic.in/ks_41037.htm |first=Sisir Kumar |last=Das |title=The Controversial Guest: Tagore in China |access-date=2014-08-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140818165243/http://ignca.nic.in/ks_41037.htm |archive-date=2014-08-18 |url-status=dead }}</ref> While there, he becomes associated with the innovative poets [[Xu Zhimo]] and [[Lin Huiyin]].
*[[May 3]] – [[F. Scott Fitzgerald|F. Scott]] and [[Zelda Fitzgerald]] leave New York for France.
*June – Ret Marut, perhaps previously Otto Feige and presumed later to be the writer [[B. Traven]], leaves Europe for [[Mexico]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Heidi Zogbaum|title=[[B. Traven: A Vision of Mexico]]|year=1992|publisher=SR Books|isbn=978-0-8420-2392-4|pages=3–4}}</ref>
*[[June 4]] – [[E. M. Forster]]'s novel ''[[A Passage to India]]'' is published in the U.K. He will write no further fiction in the remaining 46 years of his life.
*September – ''[[Buddenbrooks]]'', the first of [[Thomas Mann]]'s works to appear in English, is published in a translation by the American [[Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter|Helen T. Lowe-Porter]]. The original German appeared in 1901.
*''unknown dates''
**The [[Hebrew language]] poet [[Hayim Nahman Bialik]] relocates with his publishing house ''Dvir'' from [[Berlin]] to [[Tel Aviv]].
**The [[Argosy Book Store]] is founded in [[New York City]], United States.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Publishers Weekly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rg68AAAAIAAJ|year=1937|publisher=R. R. Bowker Company|page=67}}</ref>
** ''[[Luxemburger Illustrierte]]'' newspaper begins publication in [[Luxembourg]] (ceased 1931).<ref>{{cite web |title=History, Philosophy and Newspaper Library Database |url=https://www.library.illinois.edu/hpnl/newspapers/results_full.php?bib_id=11632 |website=www.library.illinois.edu |publisher=University of Illinois Board of Trustees |access-date=24 April 2024}}</ref>

==New books==
===Fiction===
*[[Felix Aderca]] – ''Moartea unei republici roșii''<ref>{{Cite book |author1=Marcel Cornis-Pope |author2=John Neubauer |title=History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pV6sFB-KuU8C&pg=PA559 |date=1 January 2004 |publisher=John Benjamins Publishing |isbn=90-272-3452-3 |pages=559}}</ref>
*[[Michael Arlen]] – ''The Green Hat''
*[[Henry Howarth Bashford]] (anonymously) – ''[[Augustus Carp, Esq.|Augustus Carp, Esq., By Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man]]''<ref>{{Cite book |author=Max Saunders |title=Self Impression: Life-Writing, Autobiografiction, and the Forms of Modern Literature |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wkbbcYWY2GIC&pg=PR12 |date=22 April 2010 |publisher=OUP Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-161473-6 |pages=12}}</ref>
* [[Pierre Benoit (novelist)|Pierre Benoit]] – ''[[The Lady of Lebanon (novel)|The Lady of Lebanon]]''
*[[Johan Bojer]] – ''Vor egen stamme'' (The Emigrants)<ref>{{Cite book |title=Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series: 1925 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sRkhAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA194 |year=1926 |publisher=Copyright Office, Library of Congress |pages=194}}</ref>
*[[Lynn Brock]] – ''[[The Deductions of Colonel Gore]]''
*[[Louis Bromfield]] – ''The Green Bay Tree''
*[[John Buchan]] – ''[[The Three Hostages]]''
*[[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]
**''[[The Land That Time Forgot (novel)|The Land That Time Forgot]]''
**''[[Tarzan and the Ant Men]]''
*[[Agatha Christie]]
**''[[The Man in the Brown Suit]]''
**''[[Poirot Investigates]]''
*[[Freeman Wills Crofts]] – ''[[Inspector French's Greatest Case]]''
*[[James Oliver Curwood]] – ''A Gentleman of Courage''
*[[Alfred Döblin]] – ''[[Berge Meere und Giganten]]'' (Mountains, Seas and Giants)
*[[Edna Ferber]] – ''[[So Big (novel)|So Big]]''
*[[Charles Finger]] – ''[[Tales from Silver Lands]]''
*[[Dorothy Canfield Fisher]] – ''The Home-Maker''
*[[Ford Madox Ford]] – ''[[Some Do Not . . .]]''
*[[Jean Forge]] – ''[[Saltego trans Jarmiloj]]''
*[[E. M. Forster]] – ''[[A Passage to India]]''
*[[Gilbert Frankau]] – ''[[Gerald Cranston's Lady (novel)|Gerald Cranston's Lady]]''
*[[John Galsworthy]] – ''The White Monkey''
*[[Garet Garrett]] – ''Satan's Bushel''
*[[Zane Grey]] – ''Call of the Canyon''
*[[Robert Hichens (writer)|Robert Hichens]] – ''[[After the Verdict (novel)|After the Verdict]]''
*[[Winifred Holtby]] – ''The Crowded Street''
*[[Margaret Irwin (novelist)|Margaret Irwin]] – ''Still She Wished for Company''
*[[Mikheil Javakhishvili]] – ''[[Kvachi Kvachantiradze]]'' ({{lang-ka|კვაჭი კვაჭანტირაძე}})
*[[Harry Stephen Keeler]] – ''The Voice of the Seven Sparrows''
*[[Margaret Kennedy]] – ''[[The Constant Nymph (novel)|The Constant Nymph]]''
*[[Magdalen King-Hall]] (as Cleone Knox) – ''Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion 1764–65''
*[[Halldór Laxness]] – ''Undir Helgahnúk''
* [[Marie Belloc Lowndes]] – ''[[The Terriford Mystery]]''
*[[Benito Lynch]] – ''[[The Englishman of the Bones (novel)|The Englishman of the Bones]]''
*[[Philip MacDonald]] – ''[[The Rasp]]''
*[[Thomas Mann]] – ''[[The Magic Mountain]]'' (''Der Zauberberg'')
*[[Lucia Mantu]] – ''Cucoana Olimpia''
*[[Katherine Mansfield]] – ''[[Something Childish|Something Childish and Other Stories]]''
*[[John Masefield]] – ''[[Sard Harker]]''
*[[F. M. Mayor]] – ''The Rector's Daughter''
*[[Herman Melville]] (d. 1891) – ''[[Billy Budd|Billy Budd, Sailor]]''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Parker |first=Hershel |title="Billy Budd, Foretopman" and the Dynamics of Canonization |journal=College Literature |date=Winter 1990 |volume=17 |series=1 |issue=1 |pages=21–32 |jstor= 25111840}}</ref>
*[[Dmitry Merezhkovsky]] – ''Akhnaton, King of Egypt''
*[[Hope Mirrlees]] – ''[[The Counterplot]]''
*[[George Moore (novelist)|George Moore]] – ''Peronnik the Fool''
*[[Paul Morand]] – ''[[Lewis and Irene]]''
*[[Ralph Hale Mottram]] – ''The Spanish Farm''
*[[E. Phillips Oppenheim]] – ''The Wrath to Come''
*[[Baroness Orczy]]
**''[[The Honourable Jim]]''
**''[[Pimpernel and Rosemary]]''
**''Les Beaux et les Dandys de Grand Siècles en Angleterre''
* [[E. Phillips Oppenheim]] –  ''[[The Ex-Duke]]''
*[[Ernest Pérochon]] – ''[[:fr:Les Gardiennes (roman)|Les Gardiennes]]''
*[[Eden Phillpotts]] – ''The Treasures of Typhon''
*[[Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany]] – ''[[The King of Elfland's Daughter]]''
*[[Joseph Roth]]
**''[[Hotel Savoy (novel)|Hotel Savoy]]''
**''[[Rebellion (novel)|Rebellion]]''
*[[Arthur Schnitzler]] – ''[[Fräulein Else (novella)|Fräulein Else]]''
*[[Arthur D. Howden Smith]] – ''Porto Bello Gold''
*[[Cecil Street]] – ''[[The Double Florin]]''
*[[Þórbergur Þórðarson]] – ''Bréf til Láru''
*[[Edgar Wallace]] 
**''[[The Dark Eyes of London (novel)|The Dark Eyes of London]]''
**''[[Double Dan (novel)|Double Dan]]''
**''[[The Face in the Night]]'' 
**''[[Room 13 (Wallace novel)|Room 13]]''
**''[[The Sinister Man (novel)|The Sinister Man]]''
**''[[The Three Oak Mystery]]''
*[[Hugh Walpole]] – ''The Old Ladies''
*[[Mary Webb]] – ''[[Precious Bane]]''
*[[H. G. Wells]] – ''[[The Dream (novel)|The Dream]]''
*[[Edith Wharton]] – ''[[The Old Maid (play)|The Old Maid]]''
*[[Walter F. White]] – ''The Fire In The Flint''
*[[P. C. Wren]] – ''[[Beau Geste]]''
*[[Francis Brett Young]]
**''[[Cold Harbour (Brett Young novel)|Cold Harbour]]''
**''[[Woodsmoke (novel)|Woodsmoke]]'' 
*[[Yevgeny Zamyatin]] – ''[[We (novel)|We]]'' (first published, in English translation)

===Children and young people===
*[[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]
**''[[The Land That Time Forgot (novel)|The Land That Time Forgot]]''
**''[[Tarzan and the Ant Men]]''
*[[Johan Fabricius]] – ''[[De Scheepsjongens van Bontekoe]]'' (The Cabin Boys of [[Willem Bontekoe|Bontekoe]], translated as ''Java Ho!: The Adventures of Three Boys Amid Fire, Storm and Shipwreck'')
*[[Hugh Lofting]] – ''[[Doctor Dolittle's Circus]]'' (4th in a series of 13 books)
*[[Anne Parrish]] – ''[[The Dream Coach]]''
*[[Albert Payson Terhune]] – ''The Heart of a Dog''
*[[Ruth Plumly Thompson]] – ''[[Grampa in Oz]]'' (18th in the Oz series overall and the fourth written by her)
*[[Else Ury]]
**''[[Nesthäkchen's Youngest]] (Nesthäkchens Jüngste)''
**''[[Nesthäkchen and Her Grandchildren]] (Nesthäkchen und Ihre Enkel)''
*[[Gertrude Chandler Warner]] – ''[[The Boxcar Children|The Box-Car Children]]''

===Drama===
<onlyinclude>
*[[Maxwell Anderson]] and [[Laurence Stallings]] – ''[[What Price Glory? (play)|What Price Glory?]]''
*[[Louis Aragon]] – ''Backs to the Wall''
*[[Bertolt Brecht]] – ''[[The Life of Edward II of England]]'' (''Leben Eduards des Zweiten von England'', adapted from [[Christopher Marlowe|Marlowe]])
*[[Mikhail Bulgakov]] – ''The Fatal Eggs'' (Роковые яйца)
*[[:it:Alberto Casella|Alberto Casella]] – ''[[:it:La morte in vacanza (opera teatrale)|La morte in vacanza]]'' (Death Takes a Holiday)
*[[Noël Coward]]
**''[[The Vortex]]'' (first performed)
**''[[Hay Fever (play)|Hay Fever]]'' (written)
**''[[Easy Virtue (play)|Easy Virtue]]'' (written)
*[[Ramón del Valle-Inclán]] – ''[[Bohemian Lights]] (Luces de Bohemia)''
*[[Henri Duvernois]] and [[Pierre Wolff]] – ''[[After Love (play)|After Love]]''
*[[Nikolai Erdman]] – ''[[:ru:Мандат (пьеса)|The Mandate]]'' (Мандат)
* [[Ian Hay]] – ''[[The Sport of Kings (play)|The Sport of Kings]]''
*[[Agha Hashar Kashmiri]] – ''[[Aankh ka Nasha]]''
*[[George S. Kaufman]] and [[Marc Connelly]] – ''[[Beggar on Horseback]]''
*[[Frederick Lonsdale]] 
**''[[The Fake (play)|The Fake]]''
**''[[The Street Singer (musical)|The Street Singer]]''
*[[Ivor Novello]] – ''[[The Rat (play)|The Rat]]''
*[[Seán O'Casey]] – ''[[Juno and the Paycock]]''<ref name=jp>{{Cite web |url=http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=2077 |access-date=2013-11-22 |work=PlayographyIreland |title=Juno and the Paycock |publisher=Irish Theatre Institute |location=Dublin}}</ref>
*[[Eugene O'Neill]] – ''[[Desire Under the Elms]]''
*[[E. Phillips Oppenheim]] – ''[[The Passionate Quest (novel)|The Passionate Quest]]''
*[[Louis N. Parker]] – ''[[Our Nell]]''
*[[Henrik Rytter]] – ''Herman Ravn''
*[[Githa Sowerby]] – ''[[The Stepmother (1924 play)|The Stepmother]]'' (written)
*[[Sergei Tretyakov (writer)|Sergei Tretyakov]] – ''The Gas Masks'' (Противогазы)
*[[Tristan Tzara]] – ''[[Handkerchief of Clouds]] (Mouchoir de Nuages)''
*[[Sutton Vane]] – ''[[Falling Leaves (play)|Falling Leaves]]''
*[[Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz]] – ''The Mother'' (''Matka'')</onlyinclude>

===Poetry===
{{Main article|1924 in poetry}}
*[[Edwin James Brady]] – ''The Land of the Sun''
*[[Muhammad Iqbal]] – ''[[The Call Of The Marching Bell|Bang-i-Dara]]''
*[[A. A. Milne]] – ''[[When We Were Very Young]]''
*[[Pablo Neruda]] – ''[[Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair]] (Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada)''<ref>{{Cite book |editor=Tarn, Nathaniel |year=1975 |title=Pablo Neruda: Selected Poems |publisher=Penguin |page=14}}</ref>
*[[Saint-John Perse]] – ''Anabase''
*[[Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo]] – ''La Coupe de cendres'' (The cup of ashes)
*[[Sergei Yesenin]] – ''[[Land of Scoundrels]]''

===Non-fiction===
*[[Alfred Rosling Bennett]] – ''London and Londoners in the 1850s and 1860s''
*[[Sarah Bernhardt]] – ''The Art of the Theatre''
*[[André Breton]] – ''[[Surrealist Manifesto|The Surrealist Manifesto]]''
*[[W. E. B. Du Bois]] – ''The Gift of Black Folk''
*[[Emma Goldman]] – ''[[My Further Disillusionment in Russia]]''
*[[Johan Huizinga]] – ''Erasmus''
*[[Agnes Mure Mackenzie]] – ''The Women in Shakespeare's Plays''
*[[Eileen Power]] – ''Medieval People''
*[[Robert Athlyi Rogers]] – ''[[Holy Piby]]''
*[[Jadunath Sarkar]] – ''[[History of Aurangzib]]''
*[[Lowell Thomas]] – ''With Lawrence in Arabia''
*[[Leon Trotsky]] – ''[[Literature and Revolution]]''
*[[Jim Tully]] – ''Beggars of Life''
*[[Mark Twain]] – ''[[The Autobiography of Mark Twain]]''
*[[Hugh Walpole]] – ''The English Novel: Some Notes on its Evolution''
*[[H. G. Wells]] – ''[[The Story of a Great Schoolmaster]]''
*[[Margaret Wylie]] – ''[[Golden Wattle Cookery Book]]''

==Births==
*[[January 30]] – [[Lloyd Alexander]], American writer (died [[2007 in literature|2007]])
*[[February 3]] – [[Andrzej Szczypiorski]], Polish writer (died [[2000 in literature|2000]])
*[[February 6]] – [[Jin Yong]], Chinese [[wuxia]] novelist (died [[2018 in literature|2018]])
*[[February 17]] – [[Margaret Truman]], American writer and soprano (died [[2008 in literature|2008]])
*[[April 3]] 
** [[Errol Brathwaite]], New Zealand author (died [[2005 in literature|2005]])
** [[Josephine Pullein-Thompson]], English children's novelist (died [[2014 in literature|2014]])
*[[April 8]] – [[Humberto Costantini]], Argentinian writer (died [[1987 in literature|1987]])
*[[April 20]] – [[Miroslav Komárek]], Czech historical linguist (died [[2013 in literature|2013]])
*[[April 24]]
**[[Clement Freud]], German-born English writer and broadcaster (died [[2009 in literature|2009]])
**[[Clive King]], English children's writer and academic (died [[2018 in literature|2018]])
*[[April 26]] – [[Solomon Mutswairo]], Zimbabwean novelist and poet (died [[2005 in literature|2005]])
*[[May 1]] – [[Terry Southern]], American writer (died [[1995 in literature|1995]])
*[[May 3]] – [[Yehuda Amichai]], born Ludwig Pfeuffer, German-born Israeli Hebrew-language poet (died [[2000 in literature|2000]])
*[[May 8]] – [[Petru Dumitriu]], Romanian novelist (died [[2002 in literature|2002]])
*[[July 1]] – [[Wang Huo]], Chinese novelist and screenwriter 
*[[July 15]] – [[Finn Bjørnseth]], Norwegian novelist (died [[1973 in literature|1973]])
*[[July 30]] 
** [[William H. Gass]], American novelist (died [[2017 in literature|2017]])<ref>{{cite book|author=H. L. Hix|title=Understanding William H. Gass|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yEbQDEngXTsC&pg=PA1|year=2002|publisher=Univ of South Carolina Press|isbn=978-1-57003-472-5|pages=1–}}</ref>
** [[José Antonio Villarreal]], Chicano novelist (died [[2010 in literature|2010]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Salem Press|title=American Ethnic Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NcdXAAAAYAAJ|year=2009|publisher=Salem Press|isbn=978-1-58765-465-7|page=1053}}</ref>
*[[August 3]] – [[Leon Uris]], American author (died [[2003 in literature|2003]])
*[[August 6]] – [[James Baldwin (writer)|James Baldwin]], American writer (died [[1987 in literature|1987]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Emmanuel Sampath Nelson|title=Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rprS-mm9uywC&pg=PA12|year=1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30501-6|pages=12}}</ref>
*[[August 15]] – [[Robert Bolt]], English screenwriter and playwright (died [[1995 in literature|1995]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-robert-bolt-1574410.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-robert-bolt-1574410.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Obituary: Robert Bolt |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |last=Calder |first=John |date=23 February 1995 |access-date=21 July 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
*[[August 17]] – [[Evan S. Connell]], American author (died [[2013 in literature|2013]])
*[[August 22]] – [[Ada Jafri]], Indian poet writing in Urdu (died [[2015 in literature|2015]])
*[[September 4]] – [[Joan Aiken]], English novelist (died [[2004 in literature|2004]])
*[[September 14]] – [[Davidson Nicol]], Sierra Leonean diplomat, author (died [[1994 in literature|1994]])
*[[September 27]] – [[Josef Škvorecký]], Czech-born novelist and publisher (died [[2012 in literature|2012]])
*[[September 30]] – [[Truman Capote]], American fiction writer (died [[1984 in literature|1984]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Jay Parini|title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nMhMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA228|year=2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-515653-9|pages=228}}</ref>
*[[October 1]] – [[Jimmy Carter]], author and 39th President of the United States (died [[2024 in literature|2024]])
*[[October 3]] – [[Harvey Kurtzman]], American cartoonist and editor (died [[1993 in literature|1993]])
*[[October 5]] – [[José Donoso]], Chilean writer (died [[1996 in literature|1996]])
*[[October 29]] – [[Zbigniew Herbert]], Polish writer (died [[1998 in literature|1998]])
*[[November 21]] – [[Christopher Tolkien]], British academic and editor (died [[2020 in literature|2020]])<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Garth |first1=John |title=Christopher Tolkien obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/20/christopher-tolkien-obituary |website=The Guardian |access-date=22 January 2020 |date=20 January 2020}}</ref>
*[[November 22]] – [[Rosamunde Pilcher]], English novelist (died [[2019 in literature|2019]])
*[[December 10]] – [[Mitzura Arghezi]], Romanian book editor, illustrator, and politician (died [[2015 in literature|2015]])
*[[December 29]] – [[Francisco Nieva]], Spanish playwright, novelist and short story writer (died [[2016 in literature|2016]])
*''unknown dates''
**[[Deirdre Cash]] (Criena Rohan), Australian novelist (died [[1963 in literature|1963]])<ref>{{Cite book |author1=William Henry Wilde |author2=Joy W. Hooton |author3=B. G. Andrews |title=The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mf5ZAAAAMAAJ |year=1994 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-553381-1 |page=7}}</ref>
**[[Mengistu Lemma]], Ethiopian playwright (died [[1988 in literature|1988]])

==Deaths==
*[[April 21]] – [[Marie Corelli]], English author (born [[1855 in literature|1855]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Eileen Bigland|title=Marie Corelli, the Woman and the Legend: A Biography|publisher=Jarrolds|year=1953|page=11}}</ref>
*[[May|May ?]] – [[Muhammad bin Fadlallah al-Sarawi]], Iranian-Iraqi faqih, religious writer and poet (born {{circa}} [[1880]]) <ref>{{cite book |last1=Al-Jaburi |first1=Kamel Salman |title=Mu'jam Al-Shuʻarāʼ min Al-'Asr Al-Jahili Hatta Sanat 2002|script-title=ar:معجم الشعراء من العصر الجاهلي حتى سنة 2002|trans-title=Dictionary of poets from the pre-Islamic era until 2002|volume=5|date=2003 |publisher=Dar Al-Kotob Al-Ilmiyah |location=Beirut|page=203 |edition=first |language=ar}}</ref>
*[[May 1]] – [[Lepha Eliza Bailey]], American author, lecturer, and social reformer (born [[1845 in literature|1845]]){{cn|date=October 2022}}
*[[May 4]] – [[E. Nesbit]], English children's author (born [[1858 in literature|1858]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=E. Nesbit {{!}} English author |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/E-Nesbit |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=31 March 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[June 3]] – [[Franz Kafka]], German-language author (born [[1883 in literature|1883]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Brod | first = Max | author-link = Max Brod | title = Franz Kafka: A Biography | url = https://archive.org/details/franzkafkabiogra00brod  | url-access = registration | year = 1960 | publisher = Schocken Books | location = New York  | isbn = 978-0-8052-0047-8|page=211  }}</ref>
*[[June 30]] – [[Jacob Israël de Haan]], Dutch-Jewish novelist, poet and journalist (assassinated, born [[1881 in literature|1881]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://cf.uba.uva.nl/nl/publicaties/treasures/text/t44.html |title=The Rosenthaliana's Jacob Israel de Haan Archive |first=Marijke T. C. |last=Stapert-Eggen |publisher=University of Amsterdam Library |access-date=2013-11-22 |archive-date=2011-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526000444/http://cf.uba.uva.nl/nl/publicaties/treasures/text/t44.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[August 3]] – [[Joseph Conrad]], Polish-born English novelist (born [[1857 in literature|1857]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Martin Ray|title=Joseph Conrad: Interviews and Recollections|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2G_hJ0JPicIC&pg=PA230|date=13 September 2010|publisher=University of Iowa Press|isbn=978-1-60938-017-5|pages=230}}</ref>
*[[August 25]] – [[Velma Caldwell Melville]], American editor and writer (born [[1858 in literature|1858]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Mrs. James Melville |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/65324951/velma-caldwell-melville-1858-1924/ |work=The Capital Times |date=August 26, 1924 |location=Madison, WI |page=4 |access-date=December 15, 2020 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} {{Open access}}</ref>
*[[August 26]] – [[Julia Carter Aldrich]], American author and editor (born [[1834 in literature|1834]])
*[[October 9]]
**[[Valery Bryusov]], Russian Symbolist poet, dramatist and translator (born [[1873 in literature|1873]])
**[[Lin Shu]], Chinese translator (born [[1852 in literature|1852]])
*[[October 12]] – [[Anatole France]], French poet, novelist and journalist (born [[1844 in literature|1844]])<ref>{{cite book|author=André Gide|title=The Journals, 1889-1949: 1889-1924|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xsgNAQAAIAAJ|year=1956|publisher=Vintage Books|page=3}}</ref>
*[[October 25]] – [[Laura Jean Libbey]], American novelist (born [[1862 in literature|1862]])<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100116035/laura-jean-libbey-dies-at-park-slope/ |title=Laura Jean Libbey Dies at Park Slope Home; Famous as a Novelist |newspaper=[[The Standard Union]] |pages=1, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100116120/laura-jean-libbey-dies-at-park-slope/ 2] |date=1924-10-26 |access-date=2022-04-20 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
*[[October 29]] – [[Frances Hodgson Burnett]], English-born children's author (born [[1849 in literature|1849]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Joanne Shattock|author2=Senior Lecturer Department of English Joanne Shattock|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KoEYAAAAIAAJ|title=The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers|year=1993|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-214176-7|page=76}}</ref>
*[[November 21]] – [[Paul Milliet]], French dramatist and librettist (born [[1848 in literature|1848]])
*[[November 22]] – [[Herman Heijermans]], Dutch dramatist (born [[1864 in literature|1864]])
*[[December 6]] – [[Gene Stratton-Porter]], American novelist and naturalist (born [[1863 in literature|1863]])<ref>{{cite book | author=Barbara Olenyik Morrow | title =Nature's Storyteller: The Life of Gene Stratton-Porter | publisher =Indiana Historical Society | year =2010 | location =Indianapolis | isbn =978-0-87195-284-4|page=28, 137-9}}</ref>
*[[December 26]] – [[Arnold Henry Savage Landor]], English writer and artist (born [[1865 in literature|1865]])
*[[December 27]] – [[Jennie Thornley Clarke]], American educator, writer, and anthologist (born [[1860 in literature|1860]])
*''unknown date'' – [[Nicolae Velo]], [[Aromanians|Aromanian]] poet and diplomat in Romania (b. [[1882]])<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=161359|title=Contacte macedo-române – rememorări, completări, rectificări|first=Constantin Ioan|last=Mladin|journal=Annales Universitatis Apulensis. Series Philologica|volume=15|issue=1|pages=37–48|year=2014|language=ro}}</ref>

==Awards==
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for fiction: [[E. M. Forster]], ''[[A Passage to India]]''
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for biography: Rev. William Wilson, ''The House of Airlie''
*[[Newbery Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Charles Hawes]], ''[[The Dark Frigate]]''
*[[Nobel Prize in Literature]]: [[Władysław Reymont]]
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]]: [[Hatcher Hughes]], ''Hell-Bent Fer Heaven''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]: [[Robert Frost]], ''[[New Hampshire (book)|New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes]]''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for the Novel]]: [[Margaret Wilson (novelist)|Margaret Wilson]], ''The Able McLaughlins''

==References==
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