1920 in literature

none 1920 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1920. Events February 2 – Beyond the Horizon, Eugene O'Neill's second full-length play, opens with a Morosco Theatre matinée in New York City, partly as a producer's experiment and partly to quiet the actor Richard Bennett, who sought to play the lead. Reviewers hail the play and O'Neill gains fame.New York City, Proposed Times Square Hotel UDAG: Environmental Impact Statement https://books.google.com/books?id=3KI4AQAAMAAJ&pg=SA4-PA33 1981 4 February 27 – An inaugural meeting of the Bloomsbury Group's Memoir Club is arranged by Mary MacCarthy in London.The Bloomsbury Group Memoir Club S. P. Rosenbaum London Palgrave Macmillan 2014 9781137360359 Spring – The poet Anton Podbevšek and others organize the Novo Mesto Spring (Novomeška pomlad) event, the beginning of Slovenian Modernism. March 15 – The Blue Flame, a four-act play by George V. Hobart and John Willard after Leta Vance Nicholson, opens at the Shubert Theatre (New York City) on Broadway before a year's U.S. tour. Though described by a critic as "one of the worst plays ever written,"Morehouse Ward Ward Morehouse Matinee Tomorrow: Fifty Years of Our Theater New York Whittlesey House 1949 175 it is a commercial success, largely due to Theda Bara as the central character of a vamp. March 22 – Federico García Lorca's first play, The Butterfly's Evil Spell (El maleficio de la mariposa) is poorly received at its première in Madrid. March 26 – This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald sets him up as a writer and celebrity. An initial 3,000 copies sell out in three days. The book's reputation dims in later years, but Dorothy Parker will recall that it was seen as innovative when it first appeared. April Hart Crane publishes his poem "My Grandmother's Love Letters" in The Dial, his first major move toward recognition as a poet. The pulp magazine Black Mask is launched in New York City as "An Illustrated Magazine of Detective Mystery, Adventure, Romance, and Spiritualism" by journalist H. L. Mencken and drama critic George Jean Nathan. thumb|right|link=Bernice Bobs Her Hair|upright=0.8|F. Scott Fitzgerald's story "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" was published in May 1920. April 3 – F. Scott Fitzgerald marries Zelda Sayre in the rectory of St. Patrick's Cathedral (Manhattan). Bruccoli Matthew J. Matthew J. Bruccoli Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald 2nd rev. 2002 1981 University of South Carolina Press Columbia, South Carolina https://archive.org/details/somesortofepicgr0000bruc_p7y5 Internet Archive registration 1-57003-455-9 11 128 May 1 – F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" appears in the Saturday Evening Post and on the magazine's cover, illustrated by artist Norman Rockwell. July – Krishna Lal Adhikari's Makaiko Kheti (The Cultivation of Maize) is published in Nepal; following claims that it contains "mischievous expressions to treason", the author is sentenced on August 2 to nine years in prison (where he will die in 1923) and all known copies of the book are destroyed.2015-07-02 The Book on Makai Parba https://www.spotlightnepal.com/2015/07/02/the-book-on-makai-parba/ live https://web.archive.org/web/20201005165853/https://www.spotlightnepal.com/2015/07/02/the-book-on-makai-parba/ 2020-10-05 2020-10-06 SpotlightNepal en August 22 – The Salzburg Festival in Austria is inaugurated with a performance of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's play Jedermann (Everyman, 1911) in front of Salzburg Cathedral, directed by Max Reinhardt.Michael P. Steinberg The Meaning of the Salzburg Festival: Austria as Theater and Ideology, 1890-1938 https://books.google.com/books?id=epOfAAAAMAAJ 1990 Cornell University Press 978-0-8014-2362-8 164 October – Agatha Christie's first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, appears in the U.S., introducing her long-running Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in the setting of an English country house. The book is published in the U.K. on January 21, 1921. November 1 – Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones plays at the Playwright's Theater in New York City with Charles Sidney Gilpin in the title role.http://www.eoneill.com/reviews/jones_frank.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20060620101207/http://eoneill.com/reviews/jones_frank.htm dead June 20, 2006 The Emperor Jones by Eugene O'Neill Glenda Frank eOneill.com 2006 2017-09-21 November 9 – D. H. Lawrence's novel Women in Love appears in a limited U.S. subscribers' edition.D.H. Lawrence Studies in Classic American Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=gysAEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT31 20 February 2019 RosettaBooks 978-0-7953-5159-4 31 December – The first edition of the Poems of the English war poet Wilfred Owen, killed in action in 1918, appears in London, introduced by his friend Siegfried Sassoon but with much of the editing carried out by Edith Sitwell. Only five of Owen's verses having been published in his lifetime, the collection introduces his work to many readers. It includes the 1917 poems "Anthem for Doomed Youth" and "Dulce et Decorum est", one of the best-known poetic condemnations of war.Ian Scott-Kilvert British Writers https://books.google.com/books?id=FNZN1_tGI4MC 1979 Scribner 978-0-684-16637-7 459 December 23 – Arthur Schnitzler's play Reigen (La Ronde, 1900) receives a first authorized performance, in Berlin, where it is criticized on moral and anti-Semitic grounds.Letters to Siegfried Trebitsch https://books.google.com/books?id=l095AAAAIAAJ 1986 221 Christmas – Monteiro Lobato's children's story "A Menina do Narizinho Arrebitado" (Girl with the Upturned Nose), the origin of the Sítio do Picapau Amarelo novel series, is published in Brazil. unknown dates Erwin von Busse, using the pseudonym Granand, publishes Das erotische Komödiengärtlein (Berlin Garden of Erotic Delights), a collection of short stories about sexually charged encounters between men. It is promptly banned. Granand Manfred Herzer Afterword 2022 Berlin Garden of Erotic Delights Warbler Press 79–84 Karel Čapek's drama R.U.R: Rossum's Universal Robots, published in Prague, introduces the word robot into English.Isaac Asimov Asimov Isaac The Vocabulary of Science Fiction Asimov's Science Fiction September 1979http://capek.misto.cz/english/robot.html Dominik Zunt 2004 Who did actually invent the word "robot" and what does it mean? Karel Čapek (1890-1938) 2011-12-06 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120204135259/http://capek.misto.cz/english/robot.html 2012-02-04 Publication in Paris of the first volume of the Collection Budé initiates editions of classical texts with parallel French translation: Plato's Hippias Minor (Hippias Mineur).Percy Gardner Ernest Arthur Gardner Max Cary The Journal of Hellenic Studies https://books.google.com/books?id=Yx8_AQAAMAAJ 1922 Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 283 Van Wyck Brooks' The Ordeal of Mark Twain controversially argues that Twain was "a victim of arrested development" with a dual personality.J. R. LeMaster James D. Wilson The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain https://books.google.com/books?id=jFlQweCtoUUC&pg=PA99 2013 Routledge 978-1-135-88135-1 99 It begins a reassessment of an author seen hitherto mainly as a humorous writer. The 1920s will bring similar reconsideration of many 19th-century American writers, notably Herman MelvilleBradley A. Johnson The Characteristic Theology of Herman Melville: Aesthetics, Politics, Duplicity https://books.google.com/books?id=I9KPBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA117 2011 Wipf and Stock Publishers 978-1-63087-620-3 117 and Emily Dickinson.Academic American encyclopedia https://books.google.com/books?id=dc5MAQAAIAAJ 1 February 1995 Grolier Incorporated 978-0-7172-2059-5 344 New books Fiction Sherwood Anderson – Poor White E. F. Benson – Queen Lucia Marjorie Bowen – The Burning Glass Rhoda Broughton – A Fool in Her Folly Emilio Carrere – The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks (La Torre de los Siete Jorobados) Catherine Carswell – Open the Door! Agatha Christie – The Mysterious Affair at Styles (first Hercule Poirot mystery) Colette – Chéri Joseph Conrad – The Rescue Freeman Wills Crofts – The Cask William Aubrey Darlington – Alf's ButtonWilliam Aubrey Darlington Alf's Button https://books.google.com/books?id=LzAmAAAAMAAJ 1920 Frederick A. Stokes Company Miguel de Unamuno Tres novelas ejemplares y un prólogo (Three Exemplary Novels and a Prologue)Martha Eulalia Altisent A Companion to the Twentieth-century Spanish Novel https://books.google.com/books?id=Z0JUwSWVlAUC&pg=PA18 2008 Boydell & Brewer Ltd 978-1-85566-174-5 18 Tulio Montalbán Grazia Deledda – Le Madre (The Mother) Ethel M. Dell – The Top of the World Suat Derviş – Kara Kitap (Black Book) Alfred Döblin – Wallenstein John Dos Passos – Three Soldiers Hans Fallada – Der junge Goedeschal (Young Goedeschal) F. Scott Fitzgerald – This Side Of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald – Flappers and Philosophers Zona Gale – Miss Lulu Bett John Galsworthy In Chancery Awakening Frederic S. Isham – The Nut Cracker Edgar Jepson – The Loudwater Mystery D. H. Lawrence – Women in Love Sinclair Lewis – Main Street David Lindsay – A Voyage to Arcturus Mrs. I. Lowenberg – The Voices Marie Belloc Lowndes – The Lonely House Compton Mackenzie – The Vanity Girl E. Phillips Oppenheim – The Great Impersonation Dowell Philip O'Reilly – Five Corners Ernest Pérochon – Nêne Marcel Proust – The Guermantes Way (Le Côté de Guermantes I, first part of vol. 3 of In Search of Lost Time) Erich Remark – The Dream Room (Die Traumbude) Maurice Renard – The Hands of Orlac Merari Siregar – Azab dan Sengsara (Pain and Suffering) Sigrid Undset – Kristin Lavransdatter (begins publication with Kransen – The Bridal Wreath) Edgar Wallace – The Daffodil Mystery Mary Augusta Ward – Harvest Mary Webb – The House in Dormer Forest Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence Owen Wister – A Straight Deal Zara Wright – Black and White Tangled Threads Francis Brett Young – The Tragic Bride Children and young people L. Frank Baum – Glinda of Oz Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan the Untamed R. A. H. Goodyear – Forge of Foxenby Hugh Lofting – The Story of Doctor Dolittle Olive Beaupré Miller – In the Nursery (first in the My Book House series) Opal Whiteley – The Story of Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart I. C. Vissarion – Ber-Căciulă Drama S. Ansky – The Dybbuk (first performed, in author's Yiddish translation as דֶער דִבּוּק צִווִישֶן צְווַיי ווֶעלְטֶן, Tzvishn Zwey Weltn – der Dibuk) J. M. Barrie A Kiss For Cinderella Mary Rose Karel Čapek – R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) Nikolai Evreinov – The Storming of the Winter Palace John Galsworthy – The Skin Game Walter Hackett – Mr. Todd's Experiment Georg Kaiser – Gas II Edward Knoblock – Mumsie Vladimir Mayakovsky – The Championship of the Universal Class Struggle Eugene O'Neill – The Emperor Jones Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood – The Bat Ernst Toller – Man and Masses (Masse Mensch) Louis Verneuil – Daniel Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz – They (Oni) Poetry 1920 in poetry Louis Aragon – "Feu de joie"Auster, Paul (ed.) (1982). The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry, with Translations by American and British Poets. New York: Random House. 978-0-394-52197-8. Edmund Blunden – The Waggoner and Other Poems Robert Bridges – October and Other Poems T. S. Eliot – Poems (Twelve poems including "Lune de Miel" and "The Hippopotamus") Robert Frost – Miscellaneous Poems Aaro Hellaakoski – Me Kaksi Bolesław Leśmian – Meadow (Łąka) Edna St. Vincent Millay – A Few Figs From Thistles Hope Mirrlees – Paris: A Poem Wilfred Owen – Poems Ezra Pound – Hugh Selwyn Mauberley Carl Sandburg – Smoke and Steel Siegfried Sassoon – Picture Show Barbu Solacolu – Umbre pe drumuri (Shadows on the Roads) Anton Schnack – Tier rang gewaltig mit Tier (Beast Strove Mightily with Beast) Georg Trakl – Der Herbst des Einsamen (The Autumn of the Lonely) Miguel de Unamuno – El Cristo de Velázquez Non-fiction Sarah Bernhardt – Petite Idole Marc Bloch – Rois et serfs. Un chapitre d'histoire capétienneSusan W. Friedman Marc Bloch, Sociology and Geography: Encountering Changing Disciplines https://books.google.com/books?id=NHrLv8Rkd78C&pg=PA185 11 November 2004 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-61215-9 185 Communist International – Theses and Statutes of the Third (Communist) International Sigmund Freud – Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Jenseits des Lustprinzips) William Inge – The Idea of Progress Ernst Jünger – Storm of Steel (In Stahlgewittern) Robert T. Kerlin (editor) – The Voice of the Negro J. Thomas Looney – Shakespeare Identified H. L. Mencken – Prejudices: Second Series Harold Monro – Some Contemporary Poets (1920) Joseph Shield Nicholson – The Revival of Marxism, final bookGroenewegen Peter Joseph Shield Nicholson (1850–1927): An early student of Marshall at Cambridge, later quite critical of Marshall and his Economics http://www.hetsa.org.au/hetsa2010/pdf/groenewegen.pdf History of Economic Thought Society of Australia 2015-08-30 Charles à Court Repington – The First World War, 1914–1918 Radu Rosetti – Povești moldovenești Frederick Jackson Turner – The Frontier in American History H. G. Wells – The Outline of History Leonard Woolf Economic Imperialism Empire and Commerce in Africa Births thumb|Isaac Asimov. January 2 (probable date) – Isaac Asimov, Russian-born American science-fiction author and biochemist (died 1992)Analog Science Fiction & Fact https://books.google.com/books?id=coMnAQAAIAAJ July 2002 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 112 January 7 – Dorothy Maclean, Canadian writer and educator, co-founder of the Findhorn Foundation (died 2020) January 14 Jean Dutourd, French novelist (died 2011)Réalités https://books.google.com/books?id=yOLeqBrFzpkC 1957 Réalités Monthly Magazine 54 Che Lan Vien, Vietnamese poet (died 1989) January 22 – Philippa Pearce, English children's writer (died 2006) January 24 – Keith Douglas, English poet (died 1944) February 1 – Colin Watson, English crime fiction writer (died 1983) February 11 – Daniel F. Galouye, American science-fiction author (died 1976) February 12 – William Roscoe Estep, American historian and educator (died 2000) February 19 – Jaan Kross, Estonian writer (died 2007) February 21 – Ishigaki Rin (石垣 りん), Japanese poet (died 2004) February 28 – Zaim Topčić, Yugoslav and Bosnian writer (died 1990) February 29 – Howard Nemerov, American poet (died 1991) March 10 – Boris Vian, French novelist (died 1959) March 11 – D. J. Enright, English writer (died 2002) March 19 – Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author, poet and artist (died 2002) March 20 – Rosemary Timperley, British novelist (died 1988) March 25 – Paul Scott, English novelist, playwright and poet (died 1978) March 31 – Marga Minco (Sara Menco), Dutch novelist and journalist (died 2023) April 5 – Arthur Hailey, English-born Canadian novelist (died 2004) April 11 – Marlen Haushofer, Austrian writer (died 1970) April 17 – Bengt Anderberg, Swedish poet, novelist, children's writer (died 2008) May 8 – Sloan Wilson, American author and poet (died 2003) May 9 – Richard Adams, English novelist, author of Watership Down (died 2016) May 12 – Satya Mohan Joshi, Nepalese writer (died 2022) May 30 – Shōtarō Yasuoka, Japanese writer (died 2013) June 2 – Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-born German literary critic (died 2013) June 8 – Gwen Harwood, Australian poet (died 1995) June 9 – Isobel English (Guesdon Jolliffe), English novelist (died 1994) June 13 – Ruth Guimarães, Afro-Brazilian classicist, fiction writer and poet (died 2014) June 18 Aster Berkhof, Belgian novelist (died 2020) Rosemary Dobson, Australian poet (died 2012) June 20 – Amos Tutuola, Nigerian writer (died 1997) July 3 – Max Wilk, American playwright, screenwriter and author of fiction and nonfiction (died 2011) July 12 – Pierre Berton, Canadian author (died 2004) August 3 – P. D. James, English crime novelist (died 2014)https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/27/pd-james PD James obituary The Guardian 27 November 2014 27 November 2014 Reynolds, Stanley August 4 – John Figueroa, Jamaican poet (died 1999) August 9 – Tormod Skagestad, Norwegian poet, novelist and playwright (died 1997) August 16 – Charles Bukowski, American writer (died 1994) August 18 – Harbhajan Singh, Punjabi poet and critic (died 2002) August 21 – Christopher Robin Milne, English writer and bookseller (died 1996) August 22 – Ray Bradbury, American science-fiction writer (died 2012)Martin Harry Greenberg Joseph D. Olander Ray Bradbury https://books.google.com/books?id=DssfAQAAIAAJ 1980 Taplinger Publishing Company 978-0-8008-6638-9 214 September 19 – Roger Angell, American fiction writer, editor, and essayist with The New Yorker (died 2022) October 7 – Daniel Vidart, Uruguayan anthropologist, writer, historian, and essayist (died 2019) October 8 – Frank Herbert, American science-fiction writer (died 1986)William F. Touponce Frank Herbert https://books.google.com/books?id=AO1aAAAAMAAJ 1988 Twayne Publishers 978-0-8057-7514-3 4 October 15 – Mario Puzo, American author of The Godfather (died 1999)Chase's Annual Events https://books.google.com/books?id=WA3vAAAAMAAJ 1994 Contemporary Books 978-0-8092-3732-6 413 October 17 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish novelist (died 2010)Eaude Michael Miguel Delibes obituary https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/mar/14/miguel-delibes-obituary 6 January 2020 The Guardian 14 March 2010 November 7 – Elaine Morgan, Welsh writer on anthropology (died 2013)https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jul/29/elaine-morgan Erika Lorraine Milam Elaine Morgan obituary The Guardian 21 January 2020 November 16 Colin Thiele, Australian author (died 2006) Peter Viertel, American author (died 2007) November 23 – Paul Celan, Romanian poet (died 1970) December 3 – Sheila K. McCullagh, English children's writer (died 2014) December 10 – Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist (died 1977) December 14 – Rosemary Sutcliff, English children's historical novelist (died 1992) December 15 – Albert Memmi, Tunisian writer in French (died 2020) December 20 – Väinö Linna, Finnish novelist (died 1992) Deaths January 2 – Paul Adam, French Symbolist novelist (born 1862)1930 Adam, Paul Encyclopaedia Britannica 14 1 149 en January 4 – Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist (born 1843) January 9 – Ella Dietz, American actress and author (born 1847)Mrs. Clymer, Actress, Dead https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108489056/obit-ella-dietz-clymer/ 28 August 2022 New-York Tribune Newspapers.com 2 May 1920 17 January 18 – Giovanni Capurro, Italian poet (born 1825) February 8 – Richard Dehmel, German poet (born 1863)Dehmel, Richard William F. Hauhart February 29 – A. H. Bullen, English editor and publisher (born 1857) March 9 – Haralamb Lecca, Romanian dramatist, poet and translator (paralysis, born 1873) March 15 – Edith Holden, English diarist and illustrator (drowned, born 1871) March 24 – Mary Augusta Ward (Mrs. Humphry Ward), Tasmanian-born English novelist (born 1851) Stewart Herbert L 1920 Mrs. Humphry Ward https://archive.org/stream/n1universitymag19mcgiuoft#page/192/mode/2up The University Magazine XIX 2 193–207 April 6 – Mary Evelyn Hitchcock, American author and explorer (born 1849) May 7 – Hugh Thomson, British illustrator (born 1860) May 8 – Annie Russell Wall, American historian, writer, teacher (born 1835) May 11 – William Dean Howells, American realist novelist (born 1837) May 15 – Owen Morgan Edwards, Welsh writer, educator (b. 1858)s-EDWA-MOR-1858 Edwards, Sir Owen Morgan (1858 - 1920), man of letters Robert Thomas Jenkins 1959 10 April 2023 May 21 – Eleanor H. Porter, American novelist (born 1868) June 5 Rhoda Broughton, Welsh novelist and short-story writer (born 1840)Marilyn Wood Rhoda Broughton (1840-1920): Profile of a Novelist https://books.google.com/books?id=-khaAAAAMAAJ 1993 Paul Watkins 978-1-871615-34-0 123 Julia A. Moore, American poet (born 1847) June 14 – Max Weber, German political economist (born 1864) June 27 – Adolphe Basile Routhier, Canadian poet (born 1839) September 29 – José Domingo Gómez Rojas, Chilean poet (meningitis, born 1896) October 17 – John Reed, American journalist (born 1887) October 20 – Bithia Mary Croker, Irish-born novelist (born c. 1848) October 25 – Terence MacSwiney, Irish playwright, poet and politician (hunger strike, born 1879) November 1 – Walter Bradford Woodgate, English boating writer and oarsman (born 1841) November 9 – Alberto Blest Gana, Chilean novelist (born 1830) November 19 – Alice E. Bartlett, American author, novelist, essayist, lyricist (born 1848) November 22 – Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (born 1884) November 24 – Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian poet, novelist and dramatist (heart disease, born 1854) December 16 – Helen Ekin Starrett, American educator, author, suffragist and magazine founder (born 1840) December 18 – Matthías Jochumsson, Icelandic poet, playwright and translator (born 1835) December 24 – Matilda Maranda Crawford, American-Canadian newspaper correspondent, writer, poet (born 1844) Awards James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: D. H. Lawrence, The Lost Girl James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: G. M. Trevelyan, Lord Grey of the Reform Bill Nobel Prize for Literature: Knut Hamsun Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: no award given Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: no award given Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Eugene O'Neill, Beyond the Horizon References 30em External links Popular Books of 1920 at Goodreads Published 1920 Books at Goodreads 1920 Books at Goodreads