1924 in literature
See also: 1923 in literature, other events of 1924, 1925 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Ford Madox Ford publishes the first book of a four-volume work titled Parade's End published between 1924 and 1928.
New books
- Michael Arlen - The Green Hat
- Louis Bromfield - The Green Bay Tree
- John Buchan - The Three Hostages
- Edna Ferber - So Big
- Ford Madox Ford - Some Do Not
- Jean Forge - Saltego trans Jarmiloj
- E. M. Forster - A Passage to India
- Charles Boardman Hawes - The Dark Frigate
- Joshua Henry Jones, Jr. - By Sanction Of Law
- Margaret Kennedy - The Constant Nymph
- Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain
- Herman Melville - Billy Budd, Foretopman
- Dmitri Merezhkovsky - Akhnaton, King of Egypt
- George Moore -Peronnik the Fool
- Eden Phillpotts - The Treasures of Typhon
- Edith Wharton - The Old Maid
- Walter F. White - The Fire In The Flint
- P. C. Wren - Beau Geste
New drama
- Maxwell Anderson - What Price Glory?
- Noel Coward - The Vortex
- Sean O'Casey - Juno and the Paycock
Poetry
- Edwin James Brady - The Land of the Sun
- A. A. Milne - When We Were Very Young
Non-fiction
- Sarah Bernhardt - The Art of the Theatre
- Emma Goldman - My Further Disillusionment in Russia
- Mark Twain - The Autobiography of Mark Twain
Births
- January 30 - Lloyd Alexander, writer
- February 3 - Andrzej Szczypiorski, writer (+ 2000)
- February 17 - Margaret Truman, novelist, daughter of President Harry S. Truman
- August 3 - Leon Uris, author
- September 4 - Joan Aiken, novelist
Deaths
- April 21 - Marie Corelli, author
- May 4 - E. Nesbit, children's author
- June 3 - Franz Kafka, author
- August 3 - Joseph Conrad, author
- October 13 - Anatole France, writer
- October 25 - Laura Jean Libbey, novelist
- December 6 - Gene Stratton Porter, American novelist and naturalist
- December 26 - Arnold Henry Savage Landor, writer and artist, grandson of Walter Savage Landor
Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize: E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Charles Hawes, The Dark Frigate
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Hatcher Hughes, Hell-Bent Fer Heaven
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Frost, New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Margaret Wilson, The Able McLaughlins
Categories
1924 books