1924 in literature
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See also: 1923 in literature, other events of 1924, 1925 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
- Ford Madox Ford publishes Some Do Not. It is the first book of a four-volume work titled Parade's End published between 1924 and 1928.
New books
- Akhnaton, King of Egypt - Dmitri Merezhkovsky
- The Art of the Theatre - Sarah Bernhardt
- The Autobiography of Mark Twain - Mark Twain
- Billy Budd, Foretopman - Herman Melville
- By Sanction Of Law - Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.
- The Dark Frigate - Charles Boardman Hawes
- The Fire In The Flint - Walter F. White
- The Green Bay Tree - Louis Bromfield
- The Green Hat - Michael Arlen
- The Land of the Sun (poetry) - Edwin James Brady
- The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
- The Old Maid - Edith Wharton
- A Passage to India - E. M. Forster
- Peronnik the Fool - George Moore (novelist)
- So Big - Edna Ferber
- Some Do Not - Ford Maddox Ford
- The Treasures of Typhon - Eden Phillpotts
- When We Were Very Young - A.A. Milne
New drama
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
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