Men Like Gods''
*
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton (; born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and interior designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray ...
– ''A Son at the Front''
*
Margaret Widdemer
Margaret Widdemer (September 30, 1884 – July 14, 1978) was an American poet and novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize (known then as the Columbia University Prize) in 1919 for her collection ''The Old Road to Paradise'', shared with Carl Sandburg ...
– ''Graven Image''
*
William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism.
In addition to his writing, Williams had a long career as a physician practicing both pedia ...
– ''The Great American Novel''
*
Margaret Wilson
Margaret Anne Wilson (born 20 May 1947) is a New Zealand lawyer, academic and former Labour Party politician. She served as Attorney-General from 1999 to 2005 and Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2005 to 2008, during the Fifth L ...
– ''
The Able McLaughlins
''The Able McLaughlins'' is a 1923 novel by Margaret Wilson first published by Harper & Brothers. It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1924. It won the Harper Prize Novel Contest for 1922-23, the first time the prize was awarded.''New York ...
''
*
Josef Winckler – ''
The Mad Bomberg''
*
P. G. Wodehouse
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, ( ; 15 October 188114 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. His creations include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeeve ...
**''
The Inimitable Jeeves
''The Inimitable Jeeves'' by P.G. Wodehouse was the first of the Jeeves novels, although not originally conceived as a single narrative, being assembled from a number of short stories featuring the same characters. The book was first published ...
''
**''
Leave It to Psmith
''Leave It to Psmith'' is a comic novel by English author P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 30 November 1923 by Herbert Jenkins, London, England, and in the United States on 14 March 1924 by George H. Doran, New York.M ...
''
*
Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf (; ; 25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.
Woolf was born i ...
– "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street"
[In '']The Dial
''The Dial'' was an American magazine published intermittently from 1840 to 1929. In its first form, from 1840 to 1844, it served as the chief publication of the Transcendentalists. From the 1880s to 1919 it was revived as a political review and ...
'' vol. 75, no. 1, July.
*
Anzia Yezierska
Anzia Yezierska (October 29, 1880 – November 20, 1970) was a Jewish-American novelist born in Mały Płock, Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire. She emigrated as a child with her parents to the United States and lived in the ...
– ''Salome of the Tenements''
Children and young people
*
Victor Appleton
Victor Appleton was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and its successors, most famous for being associated with the Tom Swift series of books.
The following series have been published under the Victor Appleton and Victor Apple ...
– ''Tom Swift and his Flying Boat'' (26th in
the original series
''Star Trek'' is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship and its crew. It later acquired the retronym of ''Star Trek: The Original Series'' (''TOS'') to distingui ...
)
*
Cicely Mary Barker
Cicely Mary Barker (28 June 1895 – 16 February 1973) was an English illustrator best known for a series of fantasy illustrations depicting fairies and flowers. Barker's art education began in girlhood with correspondence courses and instructi ...
– ''Flower Fairies of the Spring'' (first in the Flower Fairies series of at least ten books)
*
Vitaly Bianki
Vitaly Valentinovich Bianki (russian: Вита́лий Валенти́нович Биа́нки; 11 February 1894, St. Petersburg — 10 June 1959, Leningrad) was a popular Russian children’s writer and a prolific author of books on nature.
E ...
– ''Whose Nose is Better? (Чей нос лучше?)''
*
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction, and fantasy genres. Best-known for creating the characters Tarzan and John Carter, he ...
– ''
Tarzan and the Golden Lion
''Tarzan and the Golden Lion'' is an adventure novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the ninth in his series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. It was first published as a seven part serial in ''Argosy All-Story Week ...
''
*
Charles Boardman Hawes
Charles Boardman Hawes () was an American writer of fiction and nonfiction sea stories, best known for three historical novels. He died suddenly at age 34, after only two of his five books had been published. He was the first U.S.-born winner o ...
– ''
The Dark Frigate
''The Dark Frigate'' is a 1923 children's historical novel written by Charles Hawes. It won the 1924 Newbery Medal. It was the third, and final, novel written by Hawes, who died shortly before its publication, making him the only author to be ...
''
*
Hugh Lofting
Hugh John Lofting (14 January 1886 – 26 September 1947) was an English American writer trained as a civil engineer, who created the classic children's literature character Doctor Dolittle. The fictional physician to talking animals, based in a ...
– ''
Doctor Dolittle's Post Office'' (third in the Doctor Dolittle series of 13 books)
*
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with '' Anne of Green Gables''. She ...
– ''
Emily of New Moon
''Emily of New Moon'' is the first in a series of novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery about an orphan girl growing up on Prince Edward Island. Montgomery is also the author of ''Anne of Green Gables'' series.
It was first published in 1923.
Plot sum ...
'' (first in the Emily series of three books)
*
Felix Salten
Felix Salten (; 6 September 1869 – 8 October 1945) was an Austro-Hungarian author and literary critic in Vienna.
Life and death
Salten was born Siegmund Salzmann on 6 September 1869 in Pest, Austria-Hungary. His father was Fülöp Salzmann, ...
– ''
Bambi, A Life in the Woods
''Bambi, a Life in the Woods'' (German title: ''Bambi: Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde'') is a 1923 Austrian coming-of-age novel written by Felix Salten and originally published in Berlin by Ullstein Verlag. The novel traces the life of Bambi ...
(Bambi. Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde)''
*
Ruth Plumly Thompson
Ruth Plumly Thompson (27 July 1891 – 6 April 1976) was an American writer of children's stories, best known for writing many novels placed in Oz, the fictional land of L. Frank Baum's classic children's novel ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' ...
– ''
The Cowardly Lion of Oz
''The Cowardly Lion of Oz'' ( 1923) is the seventeenth in the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the third written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. It was illustrated by John R. Neill.
Plot
The story opens with Mustafa o ...
'' (17th in the Oz series overall and the third written by her)
*
Else Ury
Else Ury (1 November 1877 – 13 January 1943) was a German-Jewish novelist and children's book author. Her best-known character is the blonde doctor's daughter Annemarie Braun, whose life from childhood to old age is told in the ten volumes of th ...
– ''
Nesthäkchen and Her Chicks
''Nesthäkchen und ihre Küken'' (English:''Nesthäkchen and Her Chicks)'' is the seventh volume of the ten-book :de:Nesthäkchen (Kinderbuchreihe), Nesthäkchen series by Else Ury. This volume was published in 1923. Nesthäkchen is Annemarie Brau ...
''
*
Hugh Walpole
Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, CBE (13 March 18841 June 1941) was an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the church but drawn instead to writing. Among th ...
– ''Jeremy and Hamlet'' (second in the Jeremy series of three books)
Drama
*Dorothy Brandon
Dorothy Brandon was a British playwright active in the interwar years. Her greatest West End success was the 1923 medical drama '' The Outsider'' which was revived several times, and adapted into films on three occasions.
An earlier hit was 191 ...
– '' The Outsider''
*Bertolt Brecht
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a pl ...
– ''In the Jungle of Cities
''In the Jungle of Cities'' (''Im Dickicht der Städte'') is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. Written between 1921 and 1924, it received its first theatrical production under the title ''Im Dickicht'' ("In the jungle") a ...
''
* Gerald du Maurier
Sir Gerald Hubert Edward Busson du Maurier (26 March 1873 – 11 April 1934) was an English actor and manager. He was the son of author George du Maurier and his wife, Emma Wightwick, and the brother of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies. In 1903, he m ...
– '' The Dancers''
* Ian Hay
Major General John Hay Beith, Order of the British Empire, CBE Military Cross, MC (17 April 1876 – 22 September 1952), was a British schoolmaster and soldier, but is best remembered as a novelist, playwright, essayist, and historian who w ...
– ''Good Luck
Luck is the phenomenon and belief that defines the experience of improbable events, especially improbably positive or negative ones. The naturalistic interpretation is that positive and negative events may happen at any time, both due to rand ...
''
*Garnet Holme (adapted from Helen Hunt Jackson
Helen Hunt Jackson (pen name, H.H.; born Helen Maria Fiske; October 15, 1830 – August 12, 1885) was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Native Americans by t ...
) – ''The Ramona Pageant
''The Ramona Outdoor Play'', formerly known as (and still commonly called) ''The Ramona Pageant'', is an outdoor play staged annually in Hemet, California since 1923.
It is based on the 1884 novel ''Ramona'' by Helen Hunt Jackson.
History and ...
''
*Georg Kaiser
Friedrich Carl Georg Kaiser, called Georg Kaiser, (25 November 1878 – 4 June 1945) was a German dramatist.
Biography
Kaiser was born in Magdeburg.
He was highly prolific and wrote in a number of different styles. An Expressionist dramatist, ...
– ''Side by Side (Nebeneinander)''
* Charles McEvoy
Charles McEvoy (1879–1929) was a British playwright and stage director. He was originally a journalist before switching to creative writing in 1907, becoming known for his realism. His 1923 play ''The Likes of Her'' was adapted into a 1931 fil ...
– ''The Likes of Her
''The Likes of Her'' is a 1923 play by the British writer Charles McEvoy.
It premiered at Battersea Town Hall on 30 January 1923. It enjoyed a West End run of 229 performances at St Martin's Theatre between 15 August 1923 and 1 March 1924. T ...
''
*Seán O'Casey
Seán O'Casey ( ga, Seán Ó Cathasaigh ; born John Casey; 30 March 1880 – 18 September 1964) was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes.
...
– ''The Shadow of a Gunman
''The Shadow of a Gunman'' is a 1923 tragicomedy play by Seán O'Casey set during the Irish War of Independence. It centres on the mistaken identity of a building tenant who is thought to be an IRA assassin.
It is the first in O'Casey's "Dublin ...
''
*Elmer Rice
Elmer Rice (born Elmer Leopold Reizenstein, September 28, 1892 – May 8, 1967) was an American playwright. He is best known for his plays ''The Adding Machine'' (1923) and his Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of New York tenement life, '' Street Sce ...
– ''The Adding Machine
''The Adding Machine'' is a 1923 play by Elmer Rice; it has been called "... a landmark of American Expressionism, reflecting the growing interest in this highly subjective and nonrealistic form of modern drama." Plot
The author of this play ta ...
''
*Arnold Ridley
William Arnold Ridley, OBE (7 January 1896 – 12 March 1984) was an English playwright and actor, earlier in his career known for writing the play '' The Ghost Train'' and later in life in the British TV sitcom ''Dad's Army'' (1968–1977) as ...
– '' The Ghost Train''
*Jules Romains
Jules Romains (born Louis Henri Jean Farigoule; 26 August 1885 – 14 August 1972) was a French poet and writer and the founder of the Unanimism literary movement. His works include the play '' Knock ou le Triomphe de la médecine'', and a cycle ...
– '' Knock (Knock, ou le Triomphe de la médecine)''
*George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from ...
– '' Saint Joan''
*Marie Stopes
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (15 October 1880 – 2 October 1958) was a British author, palaeobotanist and campaigner for eugenics and women's rights. She made significant contributions to plant palaeontology and coal classification, ...
– ''Our Ostriches''
*Ernst Toller
Ernst Toller (1 December 1893 – 22 May 1939) was a German author, playwright, left-wing politician and revolutionary, known for his Expressionism (theatre), Expressionist plays. He served in 1919 for six days as President of the short-lived B ...
– ''Hinkemann''
* Sergei Tretyakov
**''Do You Hear, Moscow?'' (Слышишь, Москва?!)
**''Earth in Turmoil''
*Sutton Vane – ''Outward Bound (play), Outward Bound''
*Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
**''The Crazy Locomotive (Szalona lokomotywa)''
**''Janulka, Daughter of Fizdejko (Janulka, córka Fizdejki)''
**''The Madman and the Nun (Wariat i zakonnica)''
Poetry
*Louise Bogan – ''Body of This Death: Poems''
*E. E. Cummings – ''Tulips and Chimneys''
*Robert Frost – ''New Hampshire (collection), New Hampshire'' (including "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening")
*Pablo Neruda – ''Crepusculario''
*Sukumar Ray – ''Abol Tabol''
*Wallace Stevens – ''Harmonium (poetry collection), Harmonium''
*David Vogel (poet), David Vogel – ''Lifney Hasha'ar Ha'afel'' (Before the Dark Gate)
*
William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism.
In addition to his writing, Williams had a long career as a physician practicing both pedia ...
**''Go Go''
**''Spring and All''
Non-fiction
*Vladimir Arsenyev – ''Dersu Uzala (book), Dersu Uzala''
*Godfrey Benson, 1st Baron Charnwood – ''Theodore Roosevelt''
*Algernon Blackwood – ''Episodes Before Thirty''
*J. B. Bury – ''A History of the Later Roman Empire from the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian''
*E. K. Chambers – ''The Elizabethan Stage''
*Winston Churchill – ''The World Crisis'' (volumes 1 & 2 specifically)
*Le Corbusier – ''Toward an Architecture (Vers une architecture)''
*Sigmund Freud – ''The Ego and the Id''
*Maxim Gorky – ''Autobiography of Maxim Gorky, My Universities'' (Мои университеты)
*Laura Thornburgh and Don Carlos Ellis - ''Motion Pictures in Education''
*Robert Henri – ''The Art Spirit''
*Rudyard Kipling – ''The Irish Guards in the Great War''
*
D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English writer, novelist, poet and essayist. His works reflect on modernity, industrialization, sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct. His best-k ...
– ''Studies in Classic American Literature''
*Arthur Moeller van den Bruck – ''Das Dritte Reich''
*Mihai Ralea – ''L'Idée de la révolution dans les doctrines socialistes''
*Mary Roberts Rinehart – ''The Out Trail''
*Arthur Moeller van den Bruck – ''Das Dritte Reich''
*Max Weber – ''Wirtschaftsgeschichte''
*Rose Wilder Lane – ''The Peaks of Shala''
Births
*January 2 – Rachel Waterhouse, English historian and author (died 2020 in literature, 2020)
*January 6 – Jacobo Timerman, Argentine writer (died 1999 in literature, 1999)
*January 9 – David Holbrook, English novelist, poet and academic (died 2011 in literature, 2011)
*January 10 – Ingeborg Drewitz, German novelist and dramatist (died 1986 in literature, 1986)
*January 16 – Anthony Hecht, American poet (died 2004 in literature, 2004)
*January 29 – Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (died 1981 in literature, 1981)
*January 31 – Norman Mailer, American writer and journalist (died 2007 in literature, 2007)
*February 2 – James Dickey, American poet and author (died 1997 in literature, 1997)
*February 9 – Brendan Behan, Irish writer and playwright (died 1964 in literature, 1964)
*February 12 – Alan Dugan, American poet and author (died 2003 in literature, 2003)
*March 26 – Elizabeth Jane Howard, English novelist (died 2014 in literature, 2014)
*March 27
**Shusaku Endo (遠藤 周作), Japanese novelist (died 1996 in literature, 1996)
**Louis Simpson, Jamaican-born American poet (died 2012 in literature, 2012)
*March 30 – Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright (died 1986 in literature, 1986)
*April 3 – Daniel Hoffman, American poet (died 2013 in literature, 2013)
*
April 21
Events Pre-1600
*753 BC – Romulus founds Rome ( traditional date).
* 43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered ...
– John Mortimer, English dramatist, screenwriter and barrister (died 2009 in literature, 2009)
*April 23 – Manuel Mejía Vallejo, Colombian novelist (died 1998 in literature, 1998)
*May 1 – Joseph Heller, American novelist (died 1999 in literature, 1999)
*May 21 – Dorothy Hewett, Australian poet, playwright and novelist (died 2002 in literature, 2002)
*June 7 – Martyn Goff, English author and bookseller (died 2015 in literature, 2015)
*June 14 – Judith Kerr, German-born English children's writer (died 2019 in literature, 2019)
*June 24 – Yves Bonnefoy, French poet and essayist (died 2016 in literature, 2016)
*July 2 – Wisława Szymborska, Polish poet and essayist (died 2012 in literature, 2012)
*July 12 – James E. Gunn (writer), James E. Gunn, American science fiction writer (died 2020 in literature, 2020)
*July 17 – James Purdy, American writer (died 2009 in literature, 2009)
*August 21 – Emma Smith (author), Emma Smith (Elspeth Hallsmith), English novelist and autobiographer (died 2018 in literature, 2018)
*September 13 – Miroslav Holub, Czech poet (died 1998 in literature, 1998)
*September 22 – Dannie Abse, Welsh poet and writer (died 2014 in literature, 2014)
*October 5 – Stig Dagerman, Swedish author and journalist (died 1954 in literature, 1954)
*October 15 – Italo Calvino, Italian writer (died 1985 in literature, 1985)
*October 24 – Denise Levertov, English-born American poet (died 1997 in literature, 1997)
*November 20 – Nadine Gordimer, South African writer (died 2014 in literature, 2014)
*November 23 – Gloria Whelan, American poet, short story writer, and novelist
*December 14 – Gerard Reve, Dutch novelist and poet (died 2006 in literature, 2006)
*December 21 – Richard Hugo, American poet and educator (died 1982 in literature, 1982)
*''unknown date'' – Qu Bo (writer), Qu Bo (曲波), Chinese novelist (died 2002 in literature, 2002)
Deaths
*January 3 –
Jaroslav Hašek
Jaroslav Hašek (; 1883–1923) was a Czech writer, humorist, satirist, journalist, bohemian and anarchist. He is best known for his novel '' The Fate of the Good Soldier Švejk during the World War'', an unfinished collection of farcical incide ...
, Czech novelist (born 1883 in literature, 1883)
*January 9 –
Katherine Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a New Zealand writer, essayist and journalist, widely considered one of the most influential and important authors of the modernist movement. Her works are celebra ...
, New Zealand-born fiction writer (born 1888 in literature, 1888)
*February 1 – Ernst Troeltsch, German theologian (born 1865 in literature, 1865)
*February 8 – Bernard Bosanquet (philosopher), Bernard Bosanquet, English philosopher and political theorist (born 1848 in literature, 1848)
*February 25 – Emeline S. Burlingame, American editor and reformer (born 1836 in literature, 1836)
*March 6 – William Boyle (writer), William Boyle, Irish dramatist and short story writer (born 1853 in literature, 1853)
*March 26 – Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (born 1844 in literature, 1844)
*March 29 – J. Smeaton Chase, English-born American author and photographer (born 1864 in literature, 1864)
*April 30 – Emerson Hough, American fiction author (born 1857 in literature, 1857)
*May 10 – Ulderiko Donadini, Croatian novelist, dramatist and short story writer (suicide, born 1894 in literature, 1894)
*May 23 – Henry Bradley, English philologist and lexicographer (born 1845 in literature, 1845)
*June 3 – Estelle Mendell Amory, American educator and author (born 1846 in literature, 1846)
*June 4 – Hume Nisbet, Scottish thriller writer, poet and painter (born 1849 in literature, 1849)
*June 10
**Louis Couperus, Dutch novelist and poet (born 1863 in literature, 1863)
**Pierre Loti, French novelist and travel writer (born 1850 in literature, 1850)
*June 22 – Morris Rosenfeld, Yiddish poet (born 1862 in literature, 1862)
*June 24 – Edith Södergran, Finnish Swedish poet (born 1892 in literature, 1892)
*July 9 – Florence Caddy, English non-fiction writer (born 1837 in literature, 1837)
*July 16
**Louis Couperus, Dutch writer of fiction, non-fiction and poetry (born 1863 in literature, 1863)
**
Charles Boardman Hawes
Charles Boardman Hawes () was an American writer of fiction and nonfiction sea stories, best known for three historical novels. He died suddenly at age 34, after only two of his five books had been published. He was the first U.S.-born winner o ...
, American writer of fiction and non-fiction (born 1889 in literature, 1889)
*August 19 – Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist, political scientist and philosopher (born 1848 in literature, 1848)
*August 24 – Kate Douglas Wiggin, American children's author (born 1856 in literature, 1856)
*October 6
:*Oscar Browning, English historian (born 1837 in literature, 1837)
:*Kate E. Griswold, American magazine editor, publisher, and proprietor (born 1860 in literature, 1860)
*
October 8
Events Pre-1600
* 314 – Constantine I defeats Roman Emperor Licinius, who loses his European territories.
* 451 – The first session of the Council of Chalcedon begins.
* 876 – Frankish forces led by Louis the Younger preven ...
– Florence Montgomery, English novelist and children's writer (born 1843 in literature, 1843)
*October 12 – John Cadvan Davies, Welsh poet and Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain), Wesleyan Methodist minister (born 1846 in literature, 1846)
*October 14 – Marcellus Emants, Dutch novelist (born 1848 in literature, 1848)
*November 18 – George Wharton James, English-born American journalist (born 1858 in literature, 1858)
*November 23 – Urmuz, Romanian short prose writer (suicide, born 1883 in literature, 1883)
*December 1 – Virginie Loveling, Flemish poet and novelist (born 1836 in literature, 1836)
*December 4 – Maurice Barrès, French novelist and journalist (born 1862 in literature, 1862)
*December 4 – Maurice Barrès, American author and poet (born 1829 in literature, 1829)
*December 12 –
Raymond Radiguet
Raymond Radiguet (18 June 1903 – 12 December 1923) was a French novelist and poet whose two novels were noted for their explicit themes, and unique style and tone.
Early life
Radiguet was born in Saint-Maur, Val-de-Marne, close to Paris, th ...
, French novelist and poet (born 1903 in literature, 1903)
Awards
*James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction:
Arnold Bennett
Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English author, best known as a novelist. He wrote prolifically: between the 1890s and the 1930s he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays (some in collaboratio ...
, ''
Riceyman Steps
''Riceyman Steps'' is a novel by British novelist Arnold Bennett, first published in 1923 and winner of that year's James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. It follows a year in the life of Henry Earlforward, a miserly second-hand bookshop ow ...
''
*James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Sir Ronald Ross, ''Memoirs, Etc.''
*Newbery Medal for children's literature:
Hugh Lofting
Hugh John Lofting (14 January 1886 – 26 September 1947) was an English American writer trained as a civil engineer, who created the classic children's literature character Doctor Dolittle. The fictional physician to talking animals, based in a ...
, ''The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle''
*Nobel Prize in Literature: William Butler Yeats
*Prix Goncourt: Lucien Fabre, ''Rabevel ou Le mal des ardents''
*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
Willa Sibert Cather (; born Wilella Sibert Cather; December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including ''O Pioneers!'', '' The Song of the Lark'', and ''My Ántonia''. In 1923, ...
, ''One of Ours''
Notes
*
References
1923 books,
Years of the 20th century in literature
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