1922 in literature

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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

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Poetry
5 Non-fiction
6 Births
7 Deaths
8 Awards

Events

First Newbery Medal awarded to authors of distinguished books for children.
T. S. Eliot founds Criterion magazine.
Ulysses by James Joyce is published.

New books

Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Captain Blood - Rafael Sabatini
The Cross - Sigrid Undset
Enchanted April - Elizabeth Von Arnim
The Enormous Room - E. E. Cummings
Just William - Richmal Crompton
Kai Lung's Golden Hours - Ernest Bramah
La Maison de Claudine - Colette
Life and Death of Harriett Frean - May Sinclair
The Naked Year - Boris Pilnyak
On a Chinese Screen - W. Somerset Maugham
One of Ours - Willa Cather
Peter Whiffle - Carl Van Vechten
Public Opinion - Walter Lippmann
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
The Story of Mankind - Hendrik Willem van Loon
Tell England - Ernest Raymond
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Worm Ouroboros - E. R. Eddison

New drama

Eugene O'Neill - The Hairy Ape

Poetry

Mário de Andrade - Paulicéia Desvairada (Hallucinated City)
T. S. Eliot - The Waste Land

Non-fiction

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
date unknown - Dick King-Smith, children's author
date unknown - Vernon Scannell, poet

Deaths

February 3 - John Butler Yeats, poet
August 14 - Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, newspaper proprietor
August 29 - Georges Sorel, philosopher
September 10 - Wilfred S. Blunt, poet
November 18 - Marcel Proust, author
November 24 - Robert Erskine Childers, historian and novelist
November 27 - Alice Meynell, poet

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

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