1921 in literature
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See also: 1920 in literature, other events of 1921, 1922 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- Jorge Luis Borges returns to Buenos Aires after a period living in Europe.
[edit] New books
- Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan the Terrible
- James Branch Cabell - Figures of Earth
- Hall Caine - The Master of Man
- Willa Cather - Alexander's Bridge
- Arthur Chapman - Mystery Ranch
- Marie Corelli - The Secret Power
- John Dos Passos - Three Soldiers
- F. Scott Fitzgerald - Flappers and Philosophers
- H. Rider Haggard - She and Allan
- Georgette Heyer - The Black Moth
- Sheila Kaye-Smith - Joanna Godden
- Denis Mackail - Romance to the Rescue
- Lucy Maud Montgomery - Rilla of Ingleside
- George Moore -Heloise and Abelard
- Shiga Naoya - A Dark Night's Passing
- Gene Stratton Porter - Her Father's Daughter
- Rafael Sabatini - Scaramouche
- Booth Tarkington - Alice Adams
- Sigrid Undset - The Mistress of Husaby
- Eugene Walter - The Byzantine riddle and other stories
- Elinor Wylie - Nets to Catch the Wind
[edit] New drama
[edit] Poetry
- Charlotte Mew - Saturday Market
- William Carlos Williams - Sour Grapes
- William Butler Yeats - Michael Robartes and the Dancer
[edit] Non-fiction
- Sarah Bernhardt - The Idol of Paris
- D. H. Lawrence - Sea and Sardinia
- Hendrik Willem van Loon - The Story of Mankind
- Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk - Further Essays on Capital and Interest
[edit] Births
- January 5 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, writer (+ 1990)
- January 19 - Patricia Highsmith, author (+ 1995)
- January 20 - Bernt Engelmann, author (+ 1994)
- February 4 - Betty Friedan, feminist author, The Feminine Mystique
- May 23 - James Blish, US science fiction author
- date unknown
- George Mackay Brown, poet
- Israil Bercovici, dramatist and historian
[edit] Deaths
- March 22 - Ernest William Hornung, creator of "Raffles"
- May 5 - Alfred Hermann Fried, publicist
- May 12 - Emilia Pardo Bazán, novelist
- June 5 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright
- June 26 - Alfred Percy Sinnett, Theosophist author
- July 4 - Antoni Grabowski, promoter of Esperanto
- August 7 - Alexander Blok, poet
- August 20 - Ernest Daudet, novelist, historian and biographer
- October 10 - Otto von Gierke, historian
- date unknown
- Jean Aicard, poet, dramatist and novelist
- Maximilian Berlitz, founder of Berlitz language schools
- John Habberton, critic
[edit] Awards
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Anatole France
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Zona Gale, Miss Lulu Bett
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel : Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize: Walter de la Mare, Memoirs of a Midget
