1922 IN LITERATURE

The year '1922 in literature' involved some significant events and new books.
Under the current U.S. copyright law, all works published before January 1, 1923 with a proper copyright notice entered the public domain no later than 75 years from the date of the copyright. Hence books published in 1922 or earlier are now in the public domain.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Events

★ The first Newbery Medal is awarded to authors of distinguished books for children.

★ T. S. Eliot founds ''Criterion'' magazine.

★ ''Ulysses'' by James Joyce is published.

New books

★ Ernest Bramah - ''Kai Lung's Golden Hours''

★ Edgar Rice Burroughs - ''At the Earth's Core''

★ Karel Čapek

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★ ''The Absolute at Large''

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★ ''Krakatit''

★ Willa Cather - ''One of Ours''

★ Colette - ''La Maison de Claudine''

★ Richmal Crompton - ''Just William''

★ Aleister Crowley - ''Diary of a Drug Fiend''

★ E.E. Cummings - ''The Enormous Room'' (novel)

★ E. R. Eddison - ''The Worm Ouroboros''

★ F. Scott Fitzgerald - ''The Beautiful and Damned''

★ David Garnett - ''Lady into Fox''

★ Hermann Hesse - ''Siddhartha''

★ James Joyce - ''Ulysses''

★ Sinclair Lewis - ''Babbitt''

★ Victor Margueritte - ''La Garçonne''

★ W. Somerset Maugham - ''On a Chinese Screen''

★ A. A. Milne - ''The Red House Mystery''

★ Baroness Orczy

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★ ''The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel''

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★ ''Nicolette'': A Tale of Old Provence

★ Boris Pilnyak - ''The Naked Year''

★ Ernest Raymond - ''Tell England''

★ Rafael Sabatini - ''Captain Blood''

★ May Sinclair - ''Life and Death of Harriett Frean''

★ Sigrid Undset - ''The Cross''

★ Carl Van Vechten ''Peter Whiffle''

★ Elizabeth Von Arnim - ''Enchanted April''

★ Margery Williams - ''The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real''

New drama

★ Karel Čapek - ''The Makropulos Affair''

★ Eugene O'Neill - ''The Hairy Ape''

★ Ben Travers - ''The Dippers''

Poetry

★ Mário de Andrade - ''Paulicéia Desvairada (Hallucinated City)''

★ T. S. Eliot - ''The Waste Land''

★ A. E. Housman - ''Last Poems''

★ Birger Sjöberg - ''Fridas Bok''

★ César Vallejo - ''Trilce''

Non-fiction

★ E. E. Cummings - ''The Enormous Room''

★ James George Frazer - ''The Golden Bough''

★ T. E. Lawrence - ''Seven Pillars of Wisdom'' (private edition)

★ Walter Lippmann - ''Public Opinion''

★ Hans Prinzhorn - ''Artistry of the Mentally Ill''

★ Hendrik Willem van Loon - ''The Story of Mankind''

★ Ludwig Wittgenstein - ''Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus''

Births

★ February 6 - Denis Norden, comedy writer

★ February 18 - Helen Gurley Brown, editor, publisher

★ March 12 - Jack Kerouac, ''On the Road'' author

★ April 13 - John Braine, novelist

★ April 16 - Kingsley Amis, novelist

★ April 28 - Alistair MacLean, novelist

★ May 6 - Alan Ross, poet and editor

★ May 30 - Hal Clement, science fiction writer

★ June 11 - Erving Goffman, sociologist

★ July 12 - Michael Ventris, translator

★ August 9 - Philip Larkin, poet

★ August 18 - Alain Robbe-Grillet, novelist

★ September 12 - Jackson Mac Low, poet

★ November 11 - Kurt Vonnegut, novelist

★ ''date unknown'' - Dick King-Smith, children's author

★ ''date unknown'' - Vernon Scannell, poet

Deaths

★ January 12 - Thomas Gibson Bowles, founder of ''The Lady'' and ''Vanity Fair''

★ January 27 - Nellie Bly, journalist

★ February 3 - John Butler Yeats, poet

★ June 12 - Wolfgang Kapp, journalist

★ July 8 - Mori Ogai, novelist and poet

★ August 14 - Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, newspaper proprietor

★ August 29 - Georges Sorel, philosopher

★ September 2 - Henry Lawson, poet

★ September 10 - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, poet

★ October 30 - Géza Gárdonyi, historical novelist

★ November 18 - Marcel Proust, author

★ November 24 - Robert Erskine Childers, historian and novelist

★ November 27 - Alice Meynell, poet

★ December 13 - Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic poet and prime minister

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Berthold Delbrück, linguist

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★ Edward George Honey, journalist

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★ Ehrman Syme Nadal, essayist

Awards

★ Hawthornden Prize for poetry: Edmund Blunden

★ James Tait Black Memorial Prize: David Garnett, ''Lady Into Fox''

★ Newbery Medal for children's literature: Hendrik Willem van Loon, ''The Story of Mankind''

★ Nobel Prize for Literature: Jacinto Benavente

★ Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Eugene O'Neill, ''Anna Christie''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson: ''Collected Poems''

★ Pulitzer Prize for the Novel : Booth Tarkington - ''Alice Adams''