1923 In Literature

Events

New books

• The Able McLaughlins - Margaret Wilson
• Deirdre - James Stephens
• Faint Perfume - Zona Gale
• The Great Roxhythe Georgette Heyer
• The House at Pooh Corner - A.A. Milne
• The Inimitable Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
• Knock - Jules Romains
• A Lost Lady - Willa Cather
• Love and the Philosopher - Marie Corelli
• Men Like Gods - H. G. Wells
• Riceyman Steps - Arnold Bennett
• Seven Trails - Max Brand
• The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle - Hugh Lofting
• The Woman of Knockaloe - Hall Caine
• The Art Spirit - Robert Henri

Births

• January 6 - Jacobo Timerman, writer (d. 1999)
• January 10 - Ingeborg Drewitz, writer (d. 1986)
• January 16 - Anthony Hecht, poet (d. 2004)
• January 29 - Paddy Chayefsky, writer (d. 1981)
• January 31 - Norman Mailer, writer and journalist
• February 2 - James Dickey, poet, author (d. 1997)
• February 9 - Brendan Behan, author (d. 1964)
• March 30 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright
• May 1 - Joseph Heller, novelist (d. 1999)
• May 21 - Dorothy Hewett, poet, playwright and novelist (d. 2002)

Deaths

• January 9 - Katherine Mansfield, writer

Awards

• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Hugh Lofting, The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle
• Nobel Prize for Literature: William Butler Yeats
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Owen Davis, Icebound
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edna St. Vincent Millay: The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Willa Cather - One of Ours

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