1924 in literature
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The year 1924 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- Ford Madox Ford publishes the first book of a four-volume work titled Parade's End published between 1924 and 1928.
[edit] New books
- Michael Arlen - The Green Hat
- Louis Bromfield - The Green Bay Tree
- John Buchan - The Three Hostages
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Edna Ferber - So Big
- Ford Madox Ford - Some Do Not
- Jean Forge - Saltego trans Jarmiloj
- E. M. Forster - A Passage to India
- Charles Boardman Hawes - The Dark Frigate
- Margaret Kennedy - The Constant Nymph
- Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain
- John Masefield - Sard Harker
- Herman Melville - Billy Budd, Foretopman
- Dmitri Merezhkovsky - Akhnaton, King of Egypt
- George Moore -Peronnik the Fool
- Baroness Orczy
- Eden Phillpotts - The Treasures of Typhon
- Edith Wharton - The Old Maid
- Walter F. White - The Fire In The Flint
- Paul Sullivan - "Maata's Journal"
- P. C. Wren - Beau Geste
[edit] New drama
- Maxwell Anderson - What Price Glory?
- Louis Aragon - Backs to the Wall
- Bertolt Brecht - The Life of Edward II of England
- Mikhail Bulgakov - The Fatal Eggs (Роковые яйца)
- Noël Coward - The Vortex (first performed), Hay Fever (written)
- Sean O'Casey - Juno and the Paycock
- Nikolai Erdman - The Warrant
- George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly - Beggar on Horseback
- Eugene O'Neill - Desire Under the Elms
- Sergei Tretyakov - The Gas Masks
- Tristan Tzara - Handkerchief of Clouds
- Roger Vitrac - The Mysteries of Love
- Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz - The Mother
[edit] Poetry
- Edwin James Brady - The Land of the Sun
- Muhammad Iqbal - Bang-i-Dara
- A. A. Milne - When We Were Very Young
[edit] Non-fiction
- Sarah Bernhardt - The Art of the Theatre
- Emma Goldman - My Further Disillusionment in Russia
- Mark Twain - The Autobiography of Mark Twain
[edit] Births
- January 30 - Lloyd Alexander, American writer (d. 2007)
- February 3 - Andrzej Szczypiorski, writer (d. 2000)
- February 17 - Margaret Truman, novelist, daughter of President Harry S. Truman (d. 2008)
- May 1 - Terry Southern, American writer (d. 1995)
- August 3 - Leon Uris, American author (d. 2003)
- August 6 - James Baldwin, American writer (d. 1987)
- August 17 - Evan S. Connell, American author
- September 4 - Joan Aiken, English novelist (d. 2004)
- September 30 - Truman Capote, American writer (d. 1984)
- October 5 - José Donoso, Chilean writer (d. 1996)
- October 29 - Zbigniew Herbert, Polish writer (d. 1998)
[edit] Deaths
- April 21 - Marie Corelli, British author (b. 1855)
- May 4 - E. Nesbit, English children's author (b. 1858)
- June 3 - Franz Kafka, German language author (b. 1883)
- August 3 - Joseph Conrad, Polish-British author (b. 1857)
- October 13 - Anatole France, French writer (b. 1844)
- October 25 - Laura Jean Libbey, American novelist (b. 1862)
- December 6 - Gene Stratton Porter, American novelist and naturalist (b. 1863)
- December 26 - Arnold Henry Savage Landor, British writer and artist, grandson of Walter Savage Landor (b. 1865)
[edit] 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 for Literature: Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Hatcher Hughes, Hell-Bent Fer Heaven
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Frost, New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Margaret Wilson, The Able McLaughlins
