Editing 1930 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1930'''.
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==Events==
*[[January 6]] – An early literary character-licensing agreement is signed by [[A. A. Milne]], giving [[Stephen Slesinger]] U.S. and Canadian merchandising rights to the [[Winnie-the-Pooh]] works.<ref>{{cite book|author=Shirley Harrison|title=The Life and Times of the Real Winnie-the-Pooh: The Teddy Bear Who Inspired A.A. Milne|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XcSIDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT90|date=23 July 2012|publisher=Pen & Sword Books|isbn=978-1-84468-320-8|page=90}}</ref>
*February – The [[Censorship of Publications Board (Ireland)|Censorship of Publications Board]] begins to function in the [[Irish Free State]]. Among the first 13 books banned (announced in May) are ''[[Point Counter Point]]'' by [[Aldous Huxley]], ''[[The Well of Loneliness]]'' by [[Radclyffe Hall]] and several on sex and marriage by [[Margaret Sanger]] and [[Marie Stopes]].<ref>''[[Iris Oifigiúil]]'' (official gazette), 14 May 1930.</ref>
*[[February 23]] – [[Erich Maria Remarque]]'s [[anti-war]] novel ''[[All Quiet on the Western Front]]'' (''Im Westen nichts Neues'', 1929) is banned in [[Thuringia]]n schools by Education Minister [[Wilhelm Frick]].<ref>{{Cite book |first=Tim |last=Kirk |title=Cassell's Dictionary of Modern German History |url=https://archive.org/details/cassellsdictiona0000kirk |url-access=registration |location=London |year=2002 |page=[https://archive.org/details/cassellsdictiona0000kirk/page/421 421]}}</ref>
*[[March 19]] – [[Paul Robeson]] plays the title role of ''[[Othello]]'' at the [[Savoy Theatre]], London, with [[Peggy Ashcroft]] as [[Desdemona]].<ref>{{Cite news |first=Samantha |last=Ellis |title=Paul Robeson in Othello, Savoy Theatre, 1930 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2003/sep/03/theatre |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |date=2003-09-03 |access-date=2013-04-21}}</ref>
*[[May 6]] – The [[Collins Crime Club]] is launched as a [[crime fiction]] imprint by the U.K. firm [[William Collins, Sons|William Collins]].
*[[May 10]] – [[John Masefield]] becomes [[Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom]].<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article58382295 ''Sunday Times'' (Perth, WA), 11 May 1930. Accessed 28 October 2012]</ref>
*[[July 14]] – [[Luigi Pirandello]]'s ''[[The Man with the Flower in His Mouth]]'' becomes the first broadcast television drama, by the [[BBC]] in England, directed by [[Val Gielgud]].<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{Cite book |title=Penguin Pocket On This Day |publisher=Penguin Reference Library |isbn=978-0-14-102715-9 |year=2006}}</ref>
*[[July 19]] – [[Georges Simenon]]'s Detective Inspector [[Jules Maigret]] makes a first appearance in print, under Simenon's own name after he abandons pseudonyms, in the novel ''Pietr-le-Letton ([[The Strange Case of Peter the Lett]])'', which begins serialization in the French weekly magazine ''Ric et Rac'' published by [[Fayard]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.trussel.com/maig/momlet.htm |title=Maigret of the Month: ''Pietr-le-Letton'' (Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett) |access-date=2013-04-05 |date=July 2004}}</ref> It will appear in book form in [[1931 in literature|1931]] as the fifth of 75 novels (and 28 short stories) in which Simenon features the pipe-smoking Paris detective.
*[[September 11]] – [[Agatha Christie]] marries archaeologist [[Max Mallowan]] in Edinburgh.
*[[September 24]] – The first production of [[Noël Coward]]'s comedy ''[[Private Lives]]'' opens at the [[Phoenix Theatre (London)]], featuring Coward, [[Gertrude Lawrence]] and [[Laurence Olivier]] in the cast.<ref name="Pocket On This Day"/>
*[[September 29]] – The English satirical novelist [[Evelyn Waugh]] joins the [[Catholic Church]].<ref>{{cite book|author=James Francis Carens|title=Critical Essays on Evelyn Waugh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ylIeAQAAIAAJ|year=1987|publisher=G.K. Hall|isbn=978-0-8161-8762-1|page=204}}</ref>
*[[October 13]] – Agatha Christie's ''[[The Murder at the Vicarage]]'', the first full-length novel to feature her amateur detective [[Miss Marple]], appears in the U.K. in the Collins Crime Club series, after serialization in the United States.
*[[November 5]] – American novelist [[Sinclair Lewis]] is awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]].
*[[December 10]] – The first performance of [[Bertolt Brecht]]'s ''[[Lehrstücke|Lehrstück]]'' ''[[The Decision (play)|The Decision]]'' (''Die Maßnahme''), written in collaboration with [[Slatan Dudow]] and the composer [[Hanns Eisler]], occurs at the [[Großes Schauspielhaus]] in [[Berlin]], with [[Ernst Busch (actor)|Ernst Busch]] as lead.
*''unknown dates''
**[[John Langalibalele Dube]] publishes the historical [[novella]] ''Insila kaShaka'', the first work of fiction in the [[Zulu language]].
**[[Franz Kafka]]'s novel ''[[The Castle (novel)|The Castle]]'' ([[1926 in literature|1926]]) is translated into English for the first time, by [[Willa Muir|Willa]] and [[Edwin Muir]].

==New books==
===Fiction===
*[[Vicki Baum]] – ''[[Grand Hotel (book)|Grand Hotel]]''
*[[E. F. Benson]] – ''[[The Inheritor (novel)|The Inheritor]]''
*[[Max Brand]] – ''[[Destry Rides Again (novel)|Destry Rides Again]]'' (original serial version as ''Twelve Peers'')<ref>{{cite book|author=Henryk Hoffmann|title=Western Movie References in American Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qv-ZOB-d4j0C&pg=PA45|date=9 October 2012|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-9324-1|page=45}}</ref>
*[[Lynn Brock]] – ''[[Q.E.D. (novel)|Q.E.D.]]''
*[[Pearl S. Buck]] – ''[[East Wind: West Wind]]''
*[[John Dickson Carr]] – ''[[It Walks By Night]]''<ref>{{cite book|author1=Larry Landrum|author2=Romeo T. Toledo|author3=Larry N. Landrum|title=American Mystery and Detective Novels: A Reference Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rBGohk2hjhUC&pg=PA125|year=1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-21387-8|page=125}}</ref>
*[[Leslie Charteris]] – ''[[Enter the Saint]]''
*[[Gabriel Chevallier]] – ''La Peur'' (Fear)
*[[Agatha Christie]]
**''[[The Murder at the Vicarage]]''
**''[[The Mysterious Mr. Quin]]''
**''[[Giant's Bread]]'' (as Mary Westmacott)
*[[Albert Cohen (novelist)|Albert Cohen]] – ''[[Solal of the Solals]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Briton Hadden|title=Time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v4MQAAAAIAAJ|year=1933|publisher=Time Incorporated|page=59}}</ref>
*[[Ferreira de Castro]] – ''A Selva'' (The Forest: A Tale of the Amazon Rubber Tappers)
*[[J. J. Connington]] – ''[[The Two Tickets Puzzle]]''
* [[Freeman Wills Crofts]] – ''[[Sir John Magill's Last Journey]]''
*[[John Dos Passos]] – ''[[U.S.A. (trilogy)|The 42nd Parallel]]''
*[[William Faulkner]] – ''[[As I Lay Dying (novel)|As I Lay Dying]]''
*[[Dorothy Canfield Fisher]] – ''The Deepening Stream''
* [[R. Austin Freeman]] – ''[[Mr. Pottermack's Oversight]]''
*[[Gaito Gazdanov]] – ''An Evening with Claire''
*[[Anthony Gilbert (author)|Anthony Gilbert]] – ''[[The Night of the Fog]]''
*[[Jean Giono]] – ''[[Second Harvest (novel)|Second Harvest]]''
*[[Milt Gross]] – ''[[He Done Her Wrong|He Done Her Wrong: the Great American Novel]]'' ([[wordless novel]])
*[[H. Rider Haggard]] – ''[[Belshazzar (novel)|Belshazzar]]''
*[[Dashiell Hammett]] – ''[[The Maltese Falcon (novel)|The Maltese Falcon]]''<ref>{{cite book|author1=Ronald G. Walker|author2=June M. Frazer|title=The Cunning Craft: Original Essays on Detective Fiction and Contemporary Literary Theory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TaFZAAAAMAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Western Illinois University|isbn=978-0-934312-08-0|page=109}}</ref>
*[[A. P. Herbert]] – ''[[The Water Gipsies (novel)|The Water Gipsies]]''
*[[Hermann Hesse]] – ''[[Narcissus and Goldmund]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Mario Jacoby|title=Individuation and Narcissism: The Psychology of the Self in Jung and Kohut|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W4i4gzg2HPAC&pg=PA15|year=1990|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-06464-4|page=15}}</ref>
*[[Georgette Heyer]] – ''[[Powder and Patch]]''
*[[Robert Hichens (writer)|Robert Hichens]] – ''[[The Bracelet (novel)|The Bracelet]]''
*[[Sydney Horler]] – ''[[Checkmate (Sydney Horler)|Checkmate]]''
*[[Langston Hughes]] – ''[[Not Without Laughter]]''
* [[Ianthe Jerrold]] – ''Dead Man's Quarry''
*[[Margaret Kennedy]] – ''[[The Fool of the Family]]''
*[[Oliver La Farge]] – ''[[Laughing Boy (novel)|Laughing Boy]]''
*[[D. H. Lawrence]]
**''Love Among the Haystacks and Other Stories''
**''[[The Virgin and the Gypsy]]'' (novella)
*[[Norman Lindsay]] – ''[[Redheap]]''<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4088880 |title="REDHEAP" BANNED. |newspaper=[[The Argus (Melbourne)|The Argus]] |issue=26,137 |location=Melbourne|date=22 May 1930 |accessdate=26 July 2017 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
*[[Benito Lynch]] – ''[[The Romance of a Gaucho (novel)|The Romance of a Gaucho]]''
* [[Philip MacDonald]] – ''[[The Noose (novel)|The Noose]]''
*[[Compton Mackenzie]] – ''[[April Fools (novel)|April Fools]]''
*[[André Malraux]] – ''[[The Royal Way]] (La Voie royale)''
*[[Frederic Manning]] (as "Private 19022") – ''Her Privates We'' (first trade edition)
*[[Katherine Mansfield]] (died 1923) – ''[[The Aloe]]''
*[[W. Somerset Maugham]] – ''[[Cakes and Ale]]''<ref>{{cite book|title=A Bibliography of the Writings of William Somerset Maugham|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2TKz2qClucQC&pg=PA42|year=1931|publisher=Ardent Media|page=43}}</ref>
*[[Gladys Mitchell]] – ''[[The Longer Bodies]]''
*[[George Moore (novelist)|George Moore]]
**''Aphrodite in Aulis''
**''A Flood''
*[[Paul Morand]] – ''[[World Champions (novel)|World Champions]] (Champions du monde)''
*[[Robert Musil]] – ''[[The Man Without Qualities]]'' (''Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften''; publication begins)
*[[Stratis Myrivilis]] – ''[[:el:Η ζωή εν τάφω (μυθιστόρημα)|Η ζωή εν τάφω]]'' (''I zoí en tafo'', "Life in the Tomb"; book publication)
*[[Vladimir Nabokov]]
**''[[The Defense]]''
**''[[The Eye (novel)|The Eye]]''
*[[Irène Némirovsky]] – ''[[Le Bal (novella)|Le Bal]]''
* [[E. Phillips Oppenheim]] 
** ''[[The Lion and the Lamb (novel)|The Lion and the Lamb]]''
** ''[[The Million Pound Deposit]]''
*[[Camil Petrescu]] – ''[[:ro:Ultima noapte de dragoste, întâia noapte de război|Ultima noapte de dragoste, întâia noapte de război]]'' (The Last Night of Love, the First Night of War)
*[[Sol Plaatje]] – ''[[Mhudi]]'' (written 1919–20)
*[[J. B. Priestley]] – ''[[Angel Pavement]]''
*[[Ellery Queen]] – ''[[The French Powder Mystery]]''
*[[Elizabeth Madox Roberts]] – ''The Great Meadow''
*[[Joseph Roth]] – ''[[Job (novel)|Job]]''
* [[Rafael Sabatini]] – ''[[The King's Minion]]''
*[[Ernst von Salomon]] – ''[[The Outlaws (novel)|The Outlaws]]''
*[[Dorothy L. Sayers]]
**''[[Strong Poison]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=James Bernard Burleson (Jr.)|title=A Study of the Novels of Dorothy L. Sayers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7CseAQAAIAAJ|year=1976|publisher=University of Texas|page=83}}</ref>
**''[[The Documents in the Case]]'' (written with [[Robert Eustace]])
*[[Nan Shepherd]] – ''The Weatherhouse''
*[[Upton Sinclair]] – ''[[Mental Radio]]''
*[[Olaf Stapledon]] – ''[[Last and First Men]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Crossley|title=An Olaf Stapledon Reader|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rULPTKNwlx8C&pg=PA3|date=1 March 1997|publisher=Syracuse University Press|isbn=978-0-8156-0430-3|page=3}}</ref>
*[[Cecil Street]]  
** ''[[Peril at Cranbury Hall]]''
** ''[[The Secret of High Eldersham]]''
*[[Miguel de Unamuno]] – ''[[San Manuel Bueno, Mártir]]''
*[[Ion Vinea]] – ''Paradisul suspinelor'' (A Haven for the Sighs)
*[[Edgar Wallace]] 
** ''[[The Clue of the Silver Key]]''
** ''[[The Lady of Ascot]]''
*[[Hugh Walpole]] – ''[[Rogue Herries]]''
*[[Evelyn Waugh]] – ''[[Vile Bodies]]''
*[[Dorothy Whipple]] – ''[[High Wages]]''
*[[Thornton Wilder]] – ''[[The Woman of Andros]]''
*[[Charles Williams (UK writer)|Charles Williams]] – ''War in Heaven''
*[[Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz]] – ''[[Insatiability]] (Nienasycenie)''
*[[Gamel Woolsey]] – ''One Way of Love'' (written; published 1987)
*[[Philip Gordon Wylie]] – ''[[Gladiator (novel)|Gladiator]]''
*[[E.H. Young]] – ''Miss Mole''
*[[Francis Brett Young]] – ''[[Jim Redlake]]''

===Children and young people===
*[[William S. Gray]] – first in the [[Dick and Jane]] series of ''Elson-Gray Readers''
*"[[Carolyn Keene]]" – ''[[The Secret of the Old Clock]]'' (first in the ''[[Nancy Drew Mystery Stories]]'' series)
*[[André Maurois]] – ''[[Fattypuffs and Thinifers]]'' (''Patapoufs et Filifers''; illustrated by [[Jean Bruller]])
*[[Anne Parrish]] – ''[[Floating Island (novel)|Floating Island]]''
*[[Watty Piper]] – ''[[The Little Engine That Could]]''
*[[Beatrix Potter]] – ''[[The Tale of Little Pig Robinson]]''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Biography of Beatrix Potter|publisher=[[Victoria and Albert Museum]]|location=London|url=http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/b/biography-beatrix-potter/|website=www.vam.ac.uk|access-date=2019-07-20|date=2011-01-13}}</ref>
*[[Gwynedd Rae]] – ''Mostly Mary'' (first in the Mary Plain series of 14 books)
*[[Arthur Ransome]] – ''[[Swallows and Amazons]]'' (first in the [[Swallows and Amazons series]] of 12 books)
*[[Ruth Plumly Thompson]] – ''[[The Yellow Knight of Oz]]'' (24th in the Oz series overall and the 10th written by her)
*[[Marion St John Webb]] – ''Mr Papingay's Flying Shop'' (first in the Papingay series of four books)
*[[Sadie Rose Weilerstein]] – ''The Adventures of K'tonton: a Little Jewish Tom Thumb''

===Drama===
<onlyinclude>
*[[Rudolf Besier]] – ''[[The Barretts of Wimpole Street]]''<ref>{{cite book | editor-last = Hochman | editor-first = Stanley | title = McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama|volume=1| date = 1984| location = New York | publisher = McGraw-Hill | url = https://archive.org/details/mcgrawhillencycl01hoch/page/344/mode/2up| isbn = 978-0-07-079169-5 |pages=344-5}}</ref>
*[[Antoine Bibesco]] – ''Ladies All''
*[[Bertolt Brecht]]
**''[[Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny]] (Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny)''<ref>{{cite book|author=Kurt Weill|title=Speak Low (When You Speak Love): The Letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Upm0TkyixDIC&pg=PA513|date=1 November 1997|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-21240-4|page=513}}</ref>
**''[[The Decision (play)|The Decision]] (Die Maßnahme)''
*[[Ferdinand Bruckner]] – ''Elisabeth von England'' (Elizabeth of England)<ref>{{cite book|title=Theatre Under the Nazis|editor=John London|publisher=Manchester University Press|year=2000|ISBN=9780719059919|page=103}}</ref>
*[[Jean Cocteau]] – ''[[The Human Voice]] (La Voix humaine)''
*[[Marc Connelly]] – ''[[The Green Pastures]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Henry Bial|title=Playing God: The Bible on the Broadway Stage|publisher=University of Michigan Press|year=2015|ISBN=9780472052929|page=197}}</ref>
*[[Noël Coward]] – ''[[Private Lives]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Noël Coward|title=Collected Plays|publisher=Methuen|year=1999|page=vii}}</ref>
*[[Ian Hay]] and [[Guy Bolton]] – ''[[A Song of Sixpence (play)|A Song of Sixpence]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=J. P. Wearing|title=The London Stage 1930-1939: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2014|page=16}}</ref>
*[[Ian Hay]] and [[P. G. Wodehouse]] – ''[[Leave It to Psmith (play)|Leave It to Psmith]]''
*[[Georgia Douglas Johnson]] – ''[[Blue-Eyed Black Boy]]''
*[[Fred Duprez]] – ''[[My Wife's Family (play)|My Wife's Family]]''
*[[Geoffrey Kerr]] – ''[[London Calling (play)|London Calling]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Gerald Martin Bordman|title=American Theatre: a Chronicle of Comedy and Drama 1930-1969|page=9|publisher=Oxford|year=1996}} {{ISBN|0-19-509078-0}}</ref>
*[[Kwee Tek Hoay]] – ''Nonton Tjapgome'' (Watching the Lantern Festival)<ref>{{cite book|author=Josh Stenberg|title=Minority Stages: Sino-Indonesian Performance and Public Display|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|year=2019|ISBN=9780824876715|page=136}}</ref>
*[[Federico García Lorca]]
**''[[The Public (play)|The Public]] (El público)'' (written)<ref>{{Citation|last=Martínez Nadal|first=Rafael|title=Lorca's ''The Public'': A Study of his Unfinished Play (''El público'') and of Love and Death in the Work of Federico García Lorca|place=London|publisher=Calder & Boyars|year=1974|isbn=0-7145-2752-1|pages=70–82}}</ref>
**''[[The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife]] (La zapatera prodigiosa)''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Atkinson |first=Brooks |date=15 June 1949 |title=García Lorca's 'The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife' Put On at the Provincetown Playhouse |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/09/12/specials/lorca-wife.html |access-date=2023-04-20 |website=archive.nytimes.com}}</ref>
*[[Patrick MacGill]] – ''[[Suspense (play)|Suspense]]''
* [[William Matthew Scott|Will Scott]] – ''[[The Limping Man (play)|The Limping Man]]''
*[[Edgar Wallace]]
**''[[On the Spot (play)|On the Spot]]''
**''[[The Mouthpiece (play)|The Mouthpiece]]''
**''[[Smoky Cell]]''
*[[Emlyn Williams]] – ''[[A Murder Has Been Arranged]]''
*[[Christa Winsloe]] – ''Ritter Nérestan'' (written as ''Gestern und heute'', translated as ''Children in Uniform'')
*[[W. B. Yeats]] – ''The Words Upon The Window Pane''</onlyinclude>

===Poetry===
{{Main|1930 in poetry}}
*[[W. H. Auden]] – ''Poems''
*[[Samuel Beckett]] – ''Whoroscope''
*[[Hart Crane]] – ''[[The Bridge (long poem)|The Bridge]]''<ref name=rmlaal>{{Cite book |last1=Ludwig |first1=Richard M. |first2=Clifford A. Jr |last2=Nault |title=Annals of American Literature 1602–1983 |url=https://archive.org/details/annalsofamerican00ludw |url-access=registration |year=1986 |location=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref>
*[[Laxmi Prasad Devkota]] – ''[[Muna Madan]]'' (मुनामदन)
*[[T. S. Eliot]] – ''[[Ash Wednesday (poem)|Ash Wednesday]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Thomas Stearns Eliot|title=Ash-Wednesday|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FtdaAAAAMAAJ|year=1930|publisher=Faber & Faber}}</ref>
*[[D. Iacobescu]] (died 1913) – ''Quasi''
*[[P. H. B. Lyon]] (editor) – ''The Discovery of Poetry''

===Non-fiction===
*[[Adrian Bell]] – ''Corduroy''
*[[Catherine Carswell]] – ''The Life of Robert Burns''
*[[E. K. Chambers]] – ''William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems''
*[[Alphonse Daudet]] (died 1897) – ''[[In the Land of Pain]] (La Doulou (La Douleur): 1887–1895 et Le Trésor d'Arlatan: 1897)''
*[[William Empson]] – ''Seven Types of Ambiguity''
*[[Dion Fortune]] – ''Psychic Self-Defence''
*[[Sigmund Freud]] – ''[[Civilization and Its Discontents]]''
*[[Muhammad Iqbal]] – ''[[The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam]]''
*[[James Hopwood Jeans|James Jeans]] – ''[[The Mysterious Universe]]''
*[[G. Wilson Knight]] – ''The Wheel of Fire: interpretations of Shakespearian tragedy''
*[[Samuil Lehtțir]] and Iosif Vainberg – ''Întrebări literari'' (Literary Questions)
*[[Bata LoBagola]] (Joseph Howard Lee) – ''LoBagola: An African Savage's Own Story'' (fictional autobiography)
*[[Paul Morand]] – ''[[New York (Morand book)|New York]]''
*[[Edouard de Pomiane]] – ''[[Cuisine en dix minutes]]''
*[[Alfred Rosenberg]] – ''[[The Myth of the Twentieth Century]] (Der Mythus des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts)''
*[[W. C. Sellar]] and [[R. J. Yeatman]] – ''[[1066 and All That]]''
*[[David Unaipon]] (credited to [[William Ramsay Smith]]) – ''Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginals''
*[[Owen Wister]] – ''[[Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship]]''

==Births==
*[[January 1]] – [[Adunis]] (Ali Ahmad Said Esber), Syrian-born poet
*[[January 20]] – [[Blair Lent]], American children's author and illustrator (died [[2009 in literature|2009]])
*[[January 23]] – [[Derek Walcott]], [[Saint Lucia]]n poet and playwright (died [[2017 in literature|2017]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Gale, Cengage Learning|title=A Study Guide for Derek Walcott's "Midsummer, Tobago"|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jtoWDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT5|year=2016|publisher=Gale, Cengage Learning|isbn=978-1-4103-5264-4|page=5}}</ref>
*[[February 15]] – [[Bruce Dawe]], Australian poet (died [[2020 in literature|2020]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Barry Spurr|author2=Lloyd Cameron|title=Standard English|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4gRDngYDAGoC&pg=PA154|year=2000|publisher=Pascal Press|isbn=978-1-74125-068-8|page=154}}</ref>
*[[February 17]] – [[Ruth Rendell]] (Ruth Barbara Grasemann), English detective and mystery novel writer (died [[2015 in literature|2015]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Ed. Mohit K. Ray|title=The Atlantic Companion to Literature in English|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A_YatfLrgnMC&pg=PA444|date=September 2007|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist|isbn=978-81-269-0832-5|page=444}}</ref>
*[[February 18]] – [[Gahan Wilson]], American author and illustrator (died [[2019 in literature|2019]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Contemporary|author2=Contemporary Books|title=Chase's Annual Events: The Day-By-Day Directory to 1994|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zQoBM1qCk5wC|year=1993|publisher=Contemporary books|isbn=978-0-8092-3732-6|page=103}}</ref>
*[[February 22]] – [[Edward D. Hoch]], American detective fiction writer (died [[2008 in literature|2008]])
*[[February 23]] – [[Paul West (writer, born 1930)|Paul West]], English-born American novelist, poet and essayist (died [[2015 in literature|2015]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Paul West, author–obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12053992/Paul-West-author-obituary.html|website=Telegraph.co.uk |access-date=3 January 2017}}</ref>
*[[March 2]] – [[Tom Wolfe]], American author, journalist (died [[2018 in literature|2018]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Tracy Chevalier|title=Encyclopedia of the Essay|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nOwBEsoNiUMC&pg=PA903|date=12 October 2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-31410-1|page=903}}</ref>
*[[March 8]] – [[Douglas Hurd]], English politician and novelist<ref>{{cite book|author=Mark Stuart|title=Douglas Hurd: The Public Servant: An Authorised Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OmVnAAAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Mainstream Publishing Company, Limited|isbn=978-1-84018-125-8|page=9}}</ref> 
*[[March 26]] – [[Gregory Corso]], American poet (died [[2001 in literature|2001]])
*[[April 16]] – [[Carol Bly]], American teacher, author of short stories, essays and nonfiction (died [[2007 in literature|2007]])
*[[May 3]] – [[Juan Gelman]], Argentine poet (died [[2014 in literature|2014]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Verity Smith|title=Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JcjFBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA365|date=26 March 1997|publisher=Routledge|isbn=1-135-31424-1|page=365}}</ref>
*[[May 13]] – [[José Jiménez Lozano]], Spanish novelist (died [[2020 in literature|2020]])<ref>{{Cite news|author=Enrique Berzal|title=Muere a los 89 años José Jiménez Lozano, Premio Cervantes y exdirector de El Norte de Castilla|url=https://www.elnortedecastilla.es/culturas/libros/muere-escritor-jose-20200309093710-nt.html|date=9 March 2020|access-date=21 July 2021|newspaper=El Norte de Castilla|language=es}}</ref>
*[[May 14]] &ndash; [[María Irene Fornés]], Cuban-American playwright (died [[2018 in literature|2018]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Scott T. Cummings|title=Maria Irene Fornes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VeZxtVkLx7IC&pg=PA5|year=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-45434-6|page=5}}</ref>
*[[May 15]] – [[Grace Ogot]], Kenyan author (died [[2015 in literature|2015]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong|author2=Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.|title=Dictionary of African Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=39JMAgAAQBAJ&pg=RA4-PA8|date=2 February 2012|publisher=OUP USA|isbn=978-0-19-538207-5|page=4}}</ref>
*[[May 19]] – [[Lorraine Hansberry]], African-American playwright (died [[1965 in literature|1965]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Henry Louis Gates Jr.|author2=Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham|title=African American Lives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3dXw6gR2GgkC&pg=PA373|date=29 April 2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-988286-1|page=373}}</ref>
*[[May 21]] – [[Stanley Wells]], English Shakespearean scholar
*[[May 25]] – [[Jón frá Pálmholti]] (Jón Kjartansson), Icelandic writer and journalist (died [[2004 in literature|2004]])
*[[May 27]] – [[John Barth]], American fiction writer (died [[2024 in literature|2024]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Jay Parini|title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nMhMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA135|year=2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-515653-9|page=135}}</ref>
*[[June 3]] – [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]], American writer (died [[1999 in literature|1999]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-marion-zimmer-bradley-1123162.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-marion-zimmer-bradley-1123162.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Obituary: Marion Zimmer Bradley|date=30 September 1999|author=Jack Adrian|website=The Independent|access-date=22 May 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
*[[June 10]] – [[Grace Mirabella]], American journalist, editor of ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'' 1971-88<ref name="Moritz1992">{{cite book|author=Charles Moritz|title=Current Biography Yearbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DWftWR1VGIEC|year=1992|publisher=H. W. Wilson Company|page=399}}</ref>
*[[June 14]] – [[Charles McCarry]], American spy and novelist (died [[2019 in literature|2019]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/05/charles-mccarry-obituary |title=Charles McCarry obituary |last1=Carlson |first1=Michael |date=2019-03-05 |website=[[The Guardian]] |language=en-GB |access-date=2019-03-19}}</ref>
*[[June 23]] – [[Anthony Thwaite]], English poet (died [[2021 in literature|2021]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Europa Publications|title=International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=phhhHT64kIMC&pg=PA544|year=2003|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-1-85743-179-7|page=544}}</ref>
*[[June 28]] – [[Maureen Howard]], American writer, editor and lecturer<ref>{{cite book|author1=Daniel J. Casey|author2=Robert E. Rhodes|title=Modern Irish-American Fiction: A Reader|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y1D2KCS8gfoC&pg=PA182|date=1 July 1989|publisher=Syracuse University Press|isbn=978-0-8156-0234-7|page=182}}</ref>
*[[July 6]] – [[Gloria Skurzynski]], American author<ref>{{cite book|author=Sharron L. McElmeel|title=Educator's Companion to Children's Literature: Folklore, contemporary realistic fiction, fantasy, biographies, and tales from here and there|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5is7oxA1MjgC&pg=PA135|year=1995|publisher=Libraries Unlimited|isbn=978-1-56308-330-3|page=135}}</ref>
*[[July 11]] – [[Harold Bloom]], American literary critic (died [[2019 in literature|2019]])<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/books/harold-bloom-dead.html |title=Harold Bloom, Critic Who Championed Western Canon, Dies at 89 |last=Smith |first=Dinitia |date=October 14, 2019 |work=The New York Times |access-date=October 14, 2019 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
*[[July 13]] – [[Sam Greenlee]], African American author (died [[2014 in literature|2014]])
*[[July 15]] – [[Jacques Derrida]], French Algerian literary critic (died [[2004 in literature|2004]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Jacques Derrida|last=Bennington|first=Geoffrey|publisher=The University of Chicago Press|year=1993|page=325}}.</ref>
*[[July 17]] – [[Ray Galton]], English scriptwriter (died [[2018 in literature|2018]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Ray Galton|author2=Alan Simpson|author3=Robert Ross|title=Steptoe and Son|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XzIbAQAAIAAJ|year=2002|publisher=BBC|page=10|isbn=9780563488330}}</ref>
*[[August 8]] – [[Barry Unsworth]], English novelist (died [[2012 in literature|2012]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.|title=Britannica Book of the Year 2013|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jXadAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA172|date=1 March 2013|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.|isbn=978-1-62513-103-4|page=172}}</ref>
*[[August 9]] – [[Carmen Balcells]], Spanish literary agent (died [[2015 in literature|2015]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Giancarlo Colombo|title=Who's Who in Spain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x4oUAQAAIAAJ|year=2006|publisher=Who's Who in Italy|isbn=978-88-85246-60-7|page=62}}</ref>
*[[August 17]] – [[Ted Hughes]], English poet laureate (died [[1998 in literature|1998]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Terry Gifford|title=Ted Hughes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IgR_AgAAQBAJ&pg=PT21|date=13 January 2009|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-38433-4|page=21}}</ref>
* [[August 19]] &ndash; [[Frank McCourt]], Irish-American writer (died [[2009 in literature|2009]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Michael D. Sharp|title=Popular Contemporary Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=16esKLrdtYkC&pg=PA1013|year=2006|publisher=Marshall Cavendish|isbn=978-0-7614-7609-2|page=1013}}</ref>
*[[August 25]] – [[Peter Trower]], Canadian poet and novelist (died [[2017 in literature|2017]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Who's who in Canadian Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TPkrAQAAIAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Reference Press|isbn=978-0-919981-46-1|page=326}}</ref>
*[[August 27]] – [[Erzsébet Galgóczi]], Hungarian novelist, playwright and screenwriter (died [[1989 in literature|1989]])
*[[September 3]] – [[Cherry Wilder]], New Zealand novelist (died [[2002 in literature|2002]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Something about the Author|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jMVkAAAAMAAJ|year=1986|publisher=Gale Research|isbn=978-0-8103-2253-0|page=98}}</ref>
*[[September 25]] – [[Shel Silverstein]], American poet (died [[1999 in literature|1999]])<ref>{{cite book|author=S. Ward|title=Meet Shel Silverstein|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qUITFQ7PvIEC&pg=PA6|year=2001|publisher=The Rosen Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-8239-5709-5|page=6}}</ref>
*[[September 29]] – [[Colin Dexter]], English detective fiction writer (died [[2017 in literature|2017]])<ref>{{cite book|author=St James Press|title=Contemporary Popular Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2MkUAQAAIAAJ|year=1997|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-216-6|page=117}}</ref>
*[[October 2]] – [[Antonio Gala]], Spanish poet, playwright and novelist
*[[October 10]] – [[Harold Pinter]], English dramatist (died [[2008 in literature|2008]])<ref>{{cite book|author=William Baker|title=Harold Pinter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rou2ffOSHr8C&pg=PA2|date=8 November 2008|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-0-8264-9971-4|page=2}}</ref>
*[[October 18]] – [[Esther Hautzig]], Polish-born American autobiographer (died [[2009 in literature|2009]])
*[[October 24]] – [[Elaine Feinstein]], English poet, novelist and [[biography in literature|literary biographer]] (died [[2019 in literature|2019]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Sorrel Kerbel|title=The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SqQsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA283|date=23 November 2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-45607-8|page=283}}</ref>
*[[October 26]] – [[Catherine Obianuju Acholonu]], Nigerian researcher and poet (died [[2014 in literature|2014]])
*[[October 27]] – [[Francisca Aguirre]], Spanish poet (died [[2019 in literature|2019]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.spainisculture.com/en/artistas_creadores/francisca_aguirre.html|title=Francisca Aguirre|website=España es Cultura|access-date=16 April 2019}}</ref>
*[[October 30]] – [[Timothy Findley]], Canadian author (died [[2002 in literature|2002]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Carol Roberts|title=Timothy Findley: Stories from a Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iOu7AAAAIAAJ|year=1994|publisher=ECW Press|isbn=978-1-55022-195-4|page=10}}</ref>
*[[November 1]] – [[A. R. Gurney]], American dramatist (died [[2017 in literature|2017]])
*[[November 5]] 
** [[Clifford Irving]], American literary forger (died [[2017 in literature|2017]])<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/obituaries/clifford-irving-author-of-a-notorious-literary-hoax-dies-at-87.html |title=Clifford Irving, Author of a Notorious Literary Hoax, Dies at 87 |last=Grimes |first=William |date=December 20, 2017 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>
** [[Hans Mommsen]], German historian (died [[2015 in literature|2015]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Kelly Boyd|title=Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0121vD9STIMC&pg=PA826|year=1999|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-884964-33-6|page=826}}</ref>
*[[November 12]] – [[Irma Chilton]], Welsh children's writer in Welsh and English (died [[1990 in literature|1990]])<ref>{{cite book|author=R. Reginald|title=Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature: A Checklist, 1700-1974: with Contemporary Science Fiction Authors II|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QfEzAQAAIAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Gale Research Company|isbn=978-0-8103-1051-3|page=852}}</ref>
*[[November 15]] – [[J. G. Ballard]], English novelist and essayist (died [[2009 in literature|2009]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jg-ballard-writer-whose-dystopian-visions-helped-shape-our-view-of-the-modern-world-1671634.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jg-ballard-writer-whose-dystopian-visions-helped-shape-our-view-of-the-modern-world-1671634.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=J.G. Ballard: Writer whose dystopian visions helped shape our view of the modern world|author=John Clute|date=21 April 2009|website=The Independent|access-date=8 June 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
*[[November 16]] – [[Chinua Achebe]], Nigerian writer, academic and literary critic (died [[2013 in literature|2013]])<ref>{{cite book|author=[[Catherine Lynette Innes]]|title=Chinua Achebe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sUuzRndxR_AC&pg=PA4|date=26 March 1992|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-42897-2|page=4}}</ref>
*[[November 20]] – [[Bai Hua]], Chinese poet, dramatist and novelist (died [[2019 in literature|2019]])
*[[November 27]] – [[Rex Shelley]], Singaporean author (died [[2009 in literature|2009]])
*[[December 2]] – [[Jon Silkin]], English poet (died [[1997 in literature|1997]])
*[[December 9]] – [[Edoardo Sanguineti]], Italian writer (died [[2010 in literature|2010]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Picchione|title=The New Avant-garde in Italy: Theoretical Debate and Poetic Practices|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-RWKEpZ16gMC&pg=PA222|date=1 January 2004|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-8994-6|page=222}}</ref>
*[[December 15]] – [[Edna O'Brien]], Irish fiction writer (died [[2024 in literature|2024]])<ref>{{cite book|first=Nicola|last=Depuis|title=Mná Na HÉireann: Women who Shaped Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=heeon5xC5KwC&pg=PA202|year=2009|publisher=Mercier Press|location=Cork|isbn=978-1-85635-645-9|page=202}}</ref>
*[[December 25]] – [[Salah Jahin]], Egyptian poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist (died [[1986 in literature|1986]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert B. Campbell|title=Crosshatching in Global Culture: A Dictionary of Modern Arab Writers: an Updated English Version of R.B. Campbell's "Contemporary Arab Writers"|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yZ0YAQAAMAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Orient-Institut der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft|page=551|isbn=9783899134070}}</ref>

==Deaths==
*[[January 9]] – [[Edward Bok]], American author (born [[1863 in literature|1863]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Hans Krabbendam|author2=Johannes Leendert Krabbendam|title=The Model Man: A Life of Edward William Bok, 1863-1930|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WnSxfB_gq1YC&pg=PA224|year=2001|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=90-420-1495-4|page=224}}</ref>
*[[January 16]] – [[Johannes Gilhoff]], German writer (born [[1861 in literature|1861]])
*[[January 24]] – [[Rebecca Latimer Felton]], American writer, lecturer, reformer and politician (born [[1835 in literature|1835]])<ref>{{Cite news|title=Mrs. Felton Dies. Appointed for One-Day Term From Georgia, She Said She Hoped to See Women in Senate|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1930/01/25/archives/mrs-felton-dies-former-senator-appointed-for-oneday-term-from.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=January 25, 1930 |access-date=February 3, 2009 }}</ref>
*[[February 9]] – [[Alice Williams Brotherton]], American author (born [[1848 in literature|1848]])
*[[February 27]]
**[[George Haven Putnam]], American author and publisher (born [[1844 in literature|1844]])
**[[Joseph Wright (linguist)|Joseph Wright]], English philologist and lexicographer (born [[1855 in literature|1855]])
*[[February 28]] – [[Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff]], Scottish writer and translator (born [[1889 in literature|1889]])
*[[March 2]] – [[D. H. Lawrence]], English novelist and poet (born [[1885 in literature|1885]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Ronald P. Draper|title=D. H. Lawrence: The Critical Heritage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x9tkI4HE50UC&pg=PA23|year=1997|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-15922-7|page=23}}</ref>
*[[March 12]] – [[Alois Jirásek]], Czech novelist and dramatist (born [[1851 in literature|1851]])
*[[March 13]] – [[Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman]], American author (born [[1852 in literature|1852]])<ref>Fishinger, Sondra. "Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, 1852–1930", in ''Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women''. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997: 139. {{ISBN|0-8156-0418-1}}</ref>
*[[April 10]] – [[Alfred Williams (poet)|Alfred Williams]], English poet and steam-hammer operator (born [[1877 in literature|1877]])
*[[April 14]]
**[[Sigurd Ibsen]], Norwegian politician and writer (born [[1859 in literature|1859]])
**[[Vladimir Mayakovsky]], Russian poet, suicide (born [[1893 in literature|1893]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Martin Crowley|title=Dying Words: The Last Moments of Writers and Philosophers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6f3V_LVlIioC&pg=PA207|year=2000|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=90-420-1432-6|page=207}}</ref>
**[[John B. Sheridan]], Irish-American sports journalist (born [[1870 in literature|1870]])<ref>{{cite book|author=George Seldes|title=Witch Hunt: The Technique and Profits of Redbaiting|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LNQUAAAAMAAJ|year=1940|publisher=Modern age books|page=88}}</ref>
*[[April 21]] – [[Robert Bridges]], English poet and Poet Laureate (born [[1844 in literature|1844]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Lee Templin Hamilton|title=Robert Bridges: An Annotated Bibliography, 1873-1988|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YiOgjZY4dGMC&pg=PA132|year=1991|publisher=University of Delaware Press|isbn=978-0-87413-364-6|page=132}}</ref>
*[[April 22]] – [[Jeppe Aakjær]], Danish poet and novelist (born [[1866 in literature|1866]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | editor-last = Hoiberg | editor-first = Dale H. | encyclopedia = Encyclopædia Britannica | title = Aakjaer, Jeppe | edition = 15th | year = 2010 | publisher = Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. | volume = I: A-Ak - Bayes | location = Chicago, Illinois | isbn = 978-1-59339-837-8 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/newencyclopaedia2009ency }}</ref>
*[[April 29]] – [[Maria Polydouri]], Greek poet (born [[1902 in literature|1902]])
*[[May 12]] – [[Iso Mutsu]] (睦磯, Gertrude Ethel Passingham), English-born Japanese travel writer (born [[1867 in literature|1867]])<ref name="Mutsu1955">{{cite book|author=Iso Mutsu|title=Kamakura; Fact & Legend|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vKRxAAAAMAAJ|year=1955|publisher=Tokyo News Service|page=ii}}</ref>
*[[May 15]] – [[William John Locke]], [[Guyana|British Guiana]]-born English novelist and playwright (born [[1863 in literature|1863]])
*[[May 16]] – [[Florence Bell (writer)|Florence Bell]], English writer and playwright (born [[1851 in literature|1851]])
*[[May 17]] – [[Herbert Croly]], American political writer (born [[1869 in literature|1869]])
*[[June 9]]
**[[Arthur St. John Adcock]], English novelist and poet (born [[1864 in literature|1864]])
**[[Thomas Herbert Warren]], English scholar and poet (born [[1853 in literature|1853]])
*[[June 23]] – [[Israel Gollancz]], English Shakespeare scholar (born [[1864 in literature|1864]])
*[[July 7]] – [[Arthur Conan Doyle]], Scottish writer of crime fiction (born [[1859 in literature|1859]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Brian W. Pugh|title=A Chronology of the Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Revised 2018 Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LnaFDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA84|date=11 December 2018|publisher=Andrews UK Limited|isbn=978-1-78705-347-2|page=84}}</ref>
*[[July 26]] – [[Pavlos Karolidis]], Greek historian (born [[1849 in literature|1849]])<ref>{{cite web | last = Touloumakos | first = Pantelis | title = Karolidis, Pavlos | year = 2006 | publisher = Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World, Asia Minor | url = http://www.ehw.gr/l.aspx?id=8721 | access-date = 27 May 2011|page=3}}</ref>
*[[August 23]] – [[Lucien Wolf]], English journalist and historian (born [[1857 in literature|1857]])
*[[August 29]] – [[William Archibald Spooner]], English academic and instigator of [[spoonerism]]s (born [[1844 in literature|1844]])
*[[September 4]] – [[Vladimir Arsenyev]], Russian travel writer and explorer (born [[1872 in literature|1872]])
*[[September 5]] – [[Georges de Porto-Riche]], French novelist and dramatist (born [[1849 in literature|1849]])
*[[September 25]] – [[Arthur Way]], English-born Australian classicist and translator (born [[1847 in literature|1847]])
*September
**[[Thomas Nicoll Hepburn]] (Gabriel Setoun), Scottish writer and poet (born [[1861 in literature|1861]])
**[[Karam Singh (historian)|Karam Singh]], Sikh historian (born [[1884 in literature|1884]])
*[[October 4]] – [[Olena Pchilka]], Ukrainian writer, translator and publisher (born [[1849 in literature|1849]])<ref name="Prokhorov1982">{{cite book|author=Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich Prokhorov|title=Great Soviet encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6FkNAQAAMAAJ|year=1982|publisher=Macmillan|page=185}}</ref>
*[[October 16]] – [[James Surtees Phillpotts]], English writer and educator (born [[1839 in literature|1839]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Illustrated London News|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MDBGVPKDnTAC|date=October 1930|publisher=International News Company|page=722}}</ref>
*[[November 20]] – [[William B. Hanna]], American sportswriter (born [[1866 in literature|1866]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Harvard Alumni Directory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VGojAQAAIAAJ|year=1934|page=447}}</ref>
*[[November 21]] – [[Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune]], Canadian writer, linguist and Catholic priest (born [[1855 in literature|1855]])
*[[December 8]] – [[Florbela Espanca]], Portuguese poet (born [[1894 in literature|1894]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Anne Commire|author2=Deborah Klezmer|title=Women in World History: Ead-Fur|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iEQOAQAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Yorkin Publications|isbn=978-0-7876-4064-4|page=262}}</ref>
*[[December 22]]
**[[Neil Munro (writer)|Neil Munro]] (Hugh Foulis), Scottish humorist, novelist and critic (born [[1863 in literature|1863]])
**[[Marion Manville Pope]], American poet and author of juvenile literature (born [[1859 in literature|1859]])
*''unknown dates'' – [[Roy Horniman]], English novelist and playwright (born [[1874 in literature|1874]])

==Awards==
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for fiction: [[E. H. Young]], ''Miss Mole''
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for biography: [[Francis Yeats-Brown]], ''[[The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (book)|Lives of a Bengal Lancer]]''
*[[Newbery Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Rachel Field]], ''[[Hitty, Her First Hundred Years]]''
*[[Nobel Prize in Literature]]: [[Sinclair Lewis]]
*[[Prix Goncourt]]: [[Henri Fauconnier]], ''Malaisie''<ref>{{cite book|author=Edoardo Esposito|title=Le letterature straniere nell'Italia dell'entre-deux-guerres|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0wBlAAAAMAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Pensa multimedia|isbn=978-88-8232-343-1|page=49}}</ref>
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]]: [[Marc Connelly]], ''[[The Green Pastures]]''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]: [[Conrad Aiken]], ''Selected Poems''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for the Novel]]: [[Oliver La Farge]], ''Laughing Boy''

==References==
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