- 1924 in literature
The year 1924 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
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Ford Madox Ford publishes the first book of a four-volume work titled "Parade's End " published between 1924 and 1928.New books
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Michael Arlen - "The Green Hat "
*Louis Bromfield - "The Green Bay Tree "
*John Buchan - "The Three Hostages "
*Edgar Rice Burroughs
**"The Land That Time Forgot"
**"Tarzan and the Ant Men "
*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 "
*Margaret Kennedy - "The Constant Nymph "
*Thomas Mann - "The Magic Mountain "
*John Masefield - "Sard Harker "
*Herman Melville - "Billy Budd, Foretopman"
*Dmitri Merezhkovsky - "Akhnaton, King of Egypt "
*George Moore -"Peronnik the Fool "
*Baroness Orczy
**"The Honourable Jim "
**"Pimpernel and Rosemary "
**"Les Beaux et les Dandys de Grand Siècles en Angleterre "
*Eden Phillpotts - "The Treasures of Typhon "
*Edith Wharton - "The Old Maid "
*Walter F. White - "The Fire In The Flint "
*Paul Sullivan - "Maata's Journal "
*P. C. Wren - "Beau Geste "New drama
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Maxwell Anderson - "What Price Glory? "
*Mikhail Bulgakov - "The Fatal Eggs (Роковые яйца)"
*Noel Coward - "The Vortex "
*Sean O'Casey - "Juno and the Paycock "Poetry
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Edwin James Brady - "The Land of the Sun "
*Muhammad Iqbal - "Bang-i-Dara"
*A. A. Milne - "When We Were Very Young "Non-fiction
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Sarah Bernhardt - "The Art of the Theatre "
*Emma Goldman - "My Further Disillusionment in Russia "
*Mark Twain - "The Autobiography of Mark Twain "Births
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January 30 -Lloyd Alexander , American writer (d. 2007)
*February 3 -Andrzej Szczypiorski , writer (d. 2000)
*February 17 -Margaret Truman , novelist, daughter of PresidentHarry S. Truman (d. 2008)
*May 1 -Terry Southern , American writer (d. 1995)
*August 3 -Leon Uris , American author (d. 2003)
*August 6 - James Baldwin, American writer (d. 1987)
*August 17 -Evan S. Connell , American author
*September 4 -Joan Aiken , English novelist (d. 2004)
*September 30 -Truman Capote , American writer (d. 1984)
*October 5 -José Donoso , Chilean writer (d. 1996)
*October 29 -Zbigniew Herbert , Polish writer (d. 1998)Deaths
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April 21 -Marie Corelli , British author (b. 1855)
*May 4 -E. Nesbit , English children's author (b. 1858)
*June 3 -Franz Kafka , German language author (b. 1883)
*August 3 -Joseph Conrad , Polish-British author (b. 1857)
*October 13 -Anatole France , French writer (b. 1844)
*October 25 -Laura Jean Libbey , American novelist (b. 1862)
*December 6 -Gene Stratton Porter , American novelist and naturalist (b. 1863)
*December 26 -Arnold Henry Savage Landor , British writer and artist, grandson ofWalter Savage Landor (b. 1865)Awards
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James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction:E. M. Forster , "A Passage to India "
*James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography:Rev. William Wilson , "The House of Airlie"
*Newbery Medal forchildren'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 , ""
*Pulitzer Prize for the Novel : Margaret Wilson, "The Able McLaughlins"
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