1924 in literature

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The year 1924 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

• Ford Madox Ford publishes the first book of a four-volume work titled Parade's End published between 1924 and 1928.

New prose fiction

• 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
• Agatha Christie
  • The Man in the Brown Suit
  • Poirot Investigates
• 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, Sailor
• 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
• Joseph Roth
  • Hotel Savoy
  • Rebellion
• Edgar Wallace - The Dark Eyes of London
• Edith Wharton - The Old Maid
• Walter F. White - The Fire In The Flint
• Paul Sullivan - "Maata's Journal"
• P. C. Wren - Beau Geste

Drama

• Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings - What Price Glory?
• Louis Aragon - Backs to the Wall
• Bertolt Brecht - The Life of Edward II of England
• Mikhail Bulgakov - The Fatal Eggs (Роковые яйца)
• Noël Coward - The Vortex (first performed), Hay Fever (written)
• Sean O'Casey - Juno and the Paycock
• Nikolai Erdman - The Warrant
• George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly - Beggar on Horseback
• Eugene O'Neill - Desire Under the Elms
• Sergei Tretyakov - The Gas Masks
• Tristan Tzara - Handkerchief of Clouds
• Roger Vitrac - The Mysteries of Love
• Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz - The Mother

Poetry

Main article: 1924 in poetry

• Edwin James Brady - The Land of the Sun
• Muhammad Iqbal - Bang-i-Dara
• 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, American writer (died 2007)
• February 3 - Andrzej Szczypiorski, writer (died 2000)
• February 17 - Margaret Truman, novelist, daughter of President Harry S. Truman (died 2008)
• May 1 - Terry Southern, American writer (died 1995)
• August 3 - Leon Uris, American author (died 2003)
• August 6 - James Baldwin, American writer (died 1987)
• August 17 - Evan S. Connell, American author
• September 4 - Joan Aiken, English novelist (died 2004)
• September 30 - Truman Capote, American writer (died 1984)
• October 5 - José Donoso, Chilean writer (died 1996)
• October 29 - Zbigniew Herbert, Polish writer (died 1998)
• date missing
  • Mengistu Lemma, Ethiopian playwright (died 1988)

Deaths

• April 21 - Marie Corelli, British author (born 1855)
• May 4 - E. Nesbit, English children's author (born 1858)
• June 3 - Franz Kafka, German language author (born 1883)
• August 3 - Joseph Conrad, Polish-British author (born 1857)
• October 13 - Anatole France, French writer (born 1844)
• October 25 - Laura Jean Libbey, American novelist (born 1862)
• December 6 - Gene Stratton Porter, American novelist and naturalist (born 1863)
• December 26 - Arnold Henry Savage Landor, British writer and artist, grandson of Walter Savage Landor (born 1865)

Awards

• 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 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