1921 in literature
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The year 1921 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- Jorge Luis Borges returns to Buenos Aires after a period living in Europe.
[edit] New books
- Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan the Terrible
- James Branch Cabell – Figures of Earth
- Hall Caine – The Master of Man
- Willa Cather – Alexander's Bridge
- Arthur Chapman – Mystery Ranch
- Marie Corelli – The Secret Power
- Eleanor Farjeon – Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
- F. Scott Fitzgerald – Flappers and Philosophers
- John Galsworthy – To Let – third in the Forsyte Saga
- H. Rider Haggard – She and Allan
- Georgette Heyer – The Black Moth
- Aldous Huxley – Crome Yellow
- Sheila Kaye-Smith – Joanna Godden
- Denis Mackail – Romance to the Rescue
- L. M. Montgomery – Rilla of Ingleside
- George Moore – Heloise and Abelard
- Shiga Naoya – A Dark Night's Passing
- Baroness Orczy
- Gene Stratton Porter – Her Father's Daughter
- Rafael Sabatini – Scaramouche
- Booth Tarkington – Alice Adams
- Sigrid Undset – The Mistress of Husaby
- Eugene Walter – The Byzantine riddle and other stories
- Elinor Wylie – Nets to Catch the Wind
[edit] New drama
- Hjalmar Bergman – Thy Rod and Thy Staff
- Karel Čapek – R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
- Susan Glaspell – Inheritors and The Verge
- Roland Pertwee - Out to Win
- Luigi Pirandello – Six Characters in Search of an Author
- Tristan Tzara – The Gas Heart
- Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz – The Water Hen
[edit] Short stories
[edit] Poetry
Main article: 1921 in poetry
- Charlotte Mew – Saturday Market
- William Carlos Williams – Sour Grapes
- William Butler Yeats – Michael Robartes and the Dancer
[edit] Non-fiction
- Sarah Bernhardt – The Idol of Paris
- D. H. Lawrence – Sea and Sardinia
- Hendrik Willem van Loon – The Story of Mankind
- Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk – Further Essays on Capital and Interest
- Ludwig Wittgenstein – Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
[edit] Births
- January 5 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (died 1990)
- January 19 – Patricia Highsmith, American author (died 1995)
- January 20 – Bernt Engelmann, author (died 1994)
- February 4 – Betty Friedan, feminist author, The Feminine Mystique (died 2006)
- February 15 – Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (died 1985)
- March 1 – Richard Wilbur, American poet
- March 24 – Wilson Harris, Guyanese writer
- May 23 – James Blish, American science fiction author (died 1975)
- August 11 – Alex Haley, American writer (died 1992)
- September 26 – Cyprian Ekwensi, Nigerian writer (died 2007)
- October 17 – George Mackay Brown, Scottish poet (died 1996)
- November 22 – Brian Cleeve, Irish author (died 2003)
- date unknown
- Israil Bercovici, dramatist and historian (died 1988)
[edit] Deaths
- March 22 – Ernest William Hornung, English author (born 1866)
- May 5 – Alfred Hermann Fried, publicist (born 1864)
- May 12 – Emilia Pardo Bazán, Spanish novelist (born 1851)
- May 13 – Jean Aicard, French writer (born 1848)
- June 5 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright (born 1862)
- June 26 – Alfred Percy Sinnett, Theosophist author (born 1840)
- July 4 – Antoni Grabowski, promoter of Esperanto (born 1857)
- August 7 – Alexander Blok, Russian poet (born 1880)
- August 20 – Ernest Daudet, novelist, historian and biographer
- October 10 – Otto von Gierke, German historian (born 1841)
- date unknown
- Maximilian Berlitz, founder of Berlitz language schools (born 1852)
- John Habberton, critic (born 1842)
[edit] Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Walter de la Mare, Memoirs of a Midget
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Anatole France
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Zona Gale, Miss Lulu Bett
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence
