1925 in literature
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[edit] Events
- April: F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway meet in the Dingo Bar on rue Delambre, in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France shortly after the publication of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and shortly before Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises is to be published.
- Ford Madox Ford publishes No More Parades. It is the second book of a four-volume work titled Parade's End published between 1924 and 1928.
- The Modern Library is taken over by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer.
[edit] New books
- Sherwood Anderson - Dark Laughter
- André Billy - L'Ange qui pleure
- Johan Bojer - The Emigrants
- James Boyd - Drums
- Louis Bromfield - Possession
- Mihail Bulgakov - The White Guard
- Donn Byrne - Hangman's House
- Willa Cather - The Professor's House
- Blaise Cendrars - Sutter's Gold
- Ivy Compton-Burnett - Pastors and Masters
- Warwick Deeping - Sorrell and Son
- John Dos Passos - Manhattan Transfer
- Theodore Dreiser - An American Tragedy
- Lion Feuchtwanger - Power
- Charles Finger - Tales from Silver Lands
- F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
- Ford Madox Ford - No More Parades
- David Garnett - The Sailor's Return
- André Gide - Les faux-monnayeurs
- Ellen Glasgow - Barren Ground
- Ernest Hemingway - In Our Time
- Franz Kafka - The Trial
- Sinclair Lewis - Arrowsmith
- Walter Lippmann - The Phantom Public
- Harry F. Liscomb - The Prince of Washington Square
- Anita Loos - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (book)
- W. Somerset Maugham - The Painted Veil
- Eugenio Montale - Ossi di seppia
- Liam O'Flaherty - The Informer
- Romain Rolland - The Game of Love and Death
- Dorothy Scarborough - The Wind (novel)
- Gertrude Stein - The Making of Americans
- James Stevens - Paul Bunyan
- Sigrid Undset - The Axe
- Hugo Wast - Stone Desert
- William Carlos Williams - In the American Grain
- P. G. Wodehouse - Carry On, Jeeves
- Elinor Wylie - The Venetian Glass Nephew
[edit] New drama
- J. R. Ackerley - The Prisoners of War
- Noel Coward - Hay Fever
[edit] Non-fiction
- Max Aitken - Politicians and the Press
- Edwin Burtt - The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science
- Adolf Hitler - Mein Kampf
[edit] Births
- January 7 - Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, author (+ 1995)
- January 8 - James Saunders, dramatist
- January 11 - William Styron, writer
- January 14 - Yukio Mishima, Japanese author and rightist political activist
- February 25 - Edward Gorey, illustrator (+ 2000)
- March 25 - Flannery O'Connor, (+ 1964)
- August 28 - Arkady Strugatsky, Russian sci-fi writer
- September 4 - Forrest Carter, author
[edit] Deaths
- George Washington Cable - American writer
- May 12 - Amy Lowell, poet
- July 15 – Mary Cholmondeley, English writer
- December 27 – Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet
[edit] Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize: Liam O'Flaherty, The Informer
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Charles Finger, Tales from Silver Lands
- Nobel Prize for Literature: George Bernard Shaw
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Sidney Howard, They Knew What They Wanted
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Man Who Died Twice
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Edna Ferber, So Big
