1923 in literature
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See also: 1922 in literature, other events of 1923, 1924 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- Fictional detective Lord Peter Wimsey makes his first appearance in print.
[edit] New books
- Sherwood Anderson - Many Marriages
- Arnold Bennett - Riceyman Steps
- Max Brand - Seven Trails
- Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan and the Golden Lion
- Hall Caine - The Woman of Knockaloe
- Willa Cather - A Lost Lady
- Marie Corelli - Love and the Philosopher
- Zona Gale - Faint Perfume
- Jaroslav Hašek - The Good Soldier Švejk
- Georgette Heyer - The Great Roxhythe
- Robert Henri - The Art Spirit
- Hugh Lofting - The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
- A. A. Milne - The House at Pooh Corner
- Jules Romains - Knock
- Felix Salten - Bambi, A Life in the Woods
- Dorothy L. Sayers - Whose Body?
- James Stephens - Deirdre
- Wallace Stevens - Harmonium
- Italo Svevo - La Coscienza di Zeno
- Alexei Tolstoy - Aelita
- Jean Toomer - Cane
- H. G. Wells - Men Like Gods
- Margaret Wilson -The Able McLaughlins
- P. G. Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves
[edit] New drama
[edit] Poetry
- E. E. Cummings - Tulips and Chimneys
- Robert Frost - New Hampshire
- Sukumar Ray - Abol Tabol
- William Carlos Williams
[edit] Non-fiction
- Vladimir Arsenyev - Dersu Uzala
- Le Corbusier - Vers une architecture (Towards a New Architecture)
- Khalil Gibran - The Prophet
- Max Weber - Wirtschaftsgeschichte
[edit] 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)
[edit] Deaths
- January 3 - Jaroslav Hašek, Czech novelist (b. 1883)
- January 9 - Katherine Mansfield, writer (b. 1888)
- February 1 - Ernst Troeltsch, theologian (b. 1865)
- February 8 - Bernard Bosanquet, philosopher and political theorist (b. 1848)
- June 10 - Pierre Loti, novelist and travel writer (b. 1850)
- June 22 - Morris Rosenfeld, poet (b. 1862)
- June 24 - Edith Södergran, poet (b. 1892)
- August 24 - Kate Douglas Wiggin, children's author (b. 1856)
- October 6 - Oscar Browning, historian (b. 1837)
- December 1 - Virginie Loveling, poet and novelist (b. 1836)
- December 4 - Maurice Barrès, novelist and journalist (b. 1862)
- date unknown
- Henry Bradley, philologist and lexicographer (b. 1845)
- George Wharton James, journalist (b. 1858)
[edit] Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize: Arnold Bennett, Riceyman Steps
- 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
