1924 In Literature

Events

• Ford Madox Ford publishes Some Do Not. It is the first book of a four-volume work titled Parade's End published between 1924 and 1928.

New books

• Akhnaton, King of Egypt - Dmitri Merezhkovsky
• The Art of the Theatre - Sarah Bernhardt
• The Autobiography of Mark Twain - Mark Twain
• Billy Budd, Foretopman - Herman Melville
• By Sanction Of Law - Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.
• The Dark Frigate - Charles Boardman Hawes
• The Fire In The Flint - Walter F. White
• The Green Bay Tree - Louis Bromfield
• The Green Hat - Michael Arlen
• The Land of the Sun (poetry) - Edwin James Brady
• The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
• The Old Maid - Edith Wharton
• A Passage to India - E. M. Forster
• Peronnik the Fool - George Moore (novelist)
• So Big - Edna Ferber
• Some Do Not - Ford Maddox Ford
• The Treasures of Typhon - Eden Phillpotts
• When We Were Very Young - A.A. Milne

Births

• January 30 - Lloyd Alexander, writer
• February 3 - Andrzej Szczypiorski, writer (+ 2000)
• February 17 - Margaret Truman, novelist, daughter of President Harry S. Truman
• August 3 - Leon Uris, author

Deaths

• April 21 - Marie Corelli, author
• June 3 - Franz Kafka, author
• August 3 - Joseph Conrad, author
• October 13 - Anatole France, writer
• December 6 - Gene Stratton Porter, American novelist and naturalist

Awards

• 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

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