1924 in literature

none 1924 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1924. Events thumb|right|300px|Ralph Lynn (centre) with Cecilia Gold and Will Deming in the 1924 London production of It Pays to Advertise January Writer Miguel de Unamuno is dismissed for the first time from his university posts by the Spanish dictator General Miguel Primo de Rivera and goes into exile on Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands. Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln ("Max") Schuster establish the New York City publisher Simon & Schuster, which initially specializes in crossword puzzle books.Frederick Lewis Allen Frederick Lewis Allen Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s 1931 165 0-06-095665-8 registration https://archive.org/details/onlyyesterdayin000alle/page/165 January 15 – The world's first radio play, Danger by Richard Hughes, is broadcast by the B.B.C. from its London studios.https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/mining-the-seams-of-radio-history---richard-hughes-and-a-comedy-of-danger The Stage Mining the seams of radio history February 2 – A largely rewritten version of Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter Hackett's 1914 farce It Pays to Advertise opens in a production by actor-manager Tom Walls, at the Aldwych Theatre in London. It runs until 10 July 1925, a total of 598 performances, as the first in a sequence of twelve Aldwych farces.New Play at the Aldwych The Times London 2 February 1924 8Mr. Ralph Lynn The Times 10 August 1962 11The Theatres The Times 25 June 1925 12 March 3 – Seán O'Casey's drama Juno and the Paycock opens at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. March Leonard and Virginia Woolf move themselves and the Hogarth Press back to a house in Bloomsbury at 52 Tavistock Square, London. Weird Tales magazine publishes H. P. Lovecraft's story "The Rats in the Walls" in the United States. April – Ford Madox Ford publishes the first of four volumes set around World War I, titled Parade's End. It is completed in 1928. April 12 – The Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore arrives in China, where his views prove controversial.http://ignca.nic.in/ks_41037.htm Sisir Kumar Das The Controversial Guest: Tagore in China 2014-08-21 https://web.archive.org/web/20140818165243/http://ignca.nic.in/ks_41037.htm 2014-08-18 dead While there, he becomes associated with the innovative poets Xu Zhimo and Lin Huiyin. May 3 – F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald leave New York for France. June – Ret Marut, perhaps previously Otto Feige and presumed later to be the writer B. Traven, leaves Europe for Mexico.Heidi Zogbaum B. Traven: A Vision of Mexico 1992 SR Books 978-0-8420-2392-4 3–4 June 4 – E. M. Forster's novel A Passage to India is published in the U.K. He will write no further fiction in the remaining 46 years of his life. September – Buddenbrooks, the first of Thomas Mann's works to appear in English, is published in a translation by the American Helen T. Lowe-Porter. The original German appeared in 1901. unknown dates The Hebrew language poet Hayim Nahman Bialik relocates with his publishing house Dvir from Berlin to Tel Aviv. The Argosy Book Store is founded in New York City, United States.The Publishers Weekly https://books.google.com/books?id=Rg68AAAAIAAJ 1937 R. R. Bowker Company 67 Luxemburger Illustrierte newspaper begins publication in Luxembourg (ceased 1931).History, Philosophy and Newspaper Library Database https://www.library.illinois.edu/hpnl/newspapers/results_full.php?bib_id=11632 www.library.illinois.edu University of Illinois Board of Trustees 24 April 2024 New books Fiction Felix Aderca – Moartea unei republici roșiiMarcel Cornis-Pope John Neubauer History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries https://books.google.com/books?id=pV6sFB-KuU8C&pg=PA559 1 January 2004 John Benjamins Publishing 90-272-3452-3 559 Michael Arlen – The Green Hat Henry Howarth Bashford (anonymously) – Augustus Carp, Esq., By Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good ManMax Saunders Self Impression: Life-Writing, Autobiografiction, and the Forms of Modern Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=wkbbcYWY2GIC&pg=PR12 22 April 2010 OUP Oxford 978-0-19-161473-6 12 Pierre Benoit – The Lady of Lebanon Johan Bojer – Vor egen stamme (The Emigrants)Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series: 1925 https://books.google.com/books?id=sRkhAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA194 1926 Copyright Office, Library of Congress 194 Lynn Brock – The Deductions of Colonel Gore 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 Freeman Wills Crofts – Inspector French's Greatest Case James Oliver Curwood – A Gentleman of Courage Alfred Döblin – Berge Meere und Giganten (Mountains, Seas and Giants) Edna Ferber – So Big Charles Finger – Tales from Silver Lands Dorothy Canfield Fisher – The Home-Maker Ford Madox Ford – Some Do Not . . . Jean Forge – Saltego trans Jarmiloj E. M. Forster – A Passage to India Gilbert Frankau – Gerald Cranston's Lady John Galsworthy – The White Monkey Garet Garrett – Satan's Bushel Zane Grey – Call of the Canyon Robert Hichens – After the Verdict Winifred Holtby – The Crowded Street Margaret Irwin – Still She Wished for Company Mikheil Javakhishvili – Kvachi Kvachantiradze (კვაჭი კვაჭანტირაძე) Harry Stephen Keeler – The Voice of the Seven Sparrows Margaret Kennedy – The Constant Nymph Magdalen King-Hall (as Cleone Knox) – Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion 1764–65 Halldór Laxness – Undir Helgahnúk Marie Belloc Lowndes – The Terriford Mystery Benito Lynch – The Englishman of the Bones Philip MacDonald – The Rasp Thomas Mann – The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg) Lucia Mantu – Cucoana Olimpia Katherine Mansfield – Something Childish and Other Stories John Masefield – Sard Harker F. M. Mayor – The Rector's Daughter Herman Melville (d. 1891) – Billy Budd, SailorParker Hershel "Billy Budd, Foretopman" and the Dynamics of Canonization College Literature Winter 1990 17 1 1 21–32 25111840 Dmitry Merezhkovsky – Akhnaton, King of Egypt Hope Mirrlees – The Counterplot George Moore – Peronnik the Fool Paul Morand – Lewis and Irene Ralph Hale Mottram – The Spanish Farm E. Phillips Oppenheim – The Wrath to Come Baroness Orczy The Honourable Jim Pimpernel and Rosemary Les Beaux et les Dandys de Grand Siècles en Angleterre E. Phillips Oppenheim – The Ex-Duke Ernest Pérochon – Les Gardiennes Eden Phillpotts – The Treasures of Typhon Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany – The King of Elfland's Daughter Joseph Roth Hotel Savoy Rebellion Arthur Schnitzler – Fräulein Else Arthur D. Howden Smith – Porto Bello Gold Cecil Street – The Double Florin Þórbergur Þórðarson – Bréf til Láru Edgar Wallace The Dark Eyes of London Double Dan The Face in the Night Room 13 The Sinister Man The Three Oak Mystery Hugh Walpole – The Old Ladies Mary Webb – Precious Bane H. G. Wells – The Dream Edith Wharton – The Old Maid Walter F. White – The Fire In The Flint P. C. Wren – Beau Geste Francis Brett Young Cold Harbour Woodsmoke Yevgeny Zamyatin – We (first published, in English translation) Children and young people Edgar Rice Burroughs The Land That Time Forgot Tarzan and the Ant Men Johan Fabricius – De Scheepsjongens van Bontekoe (The Cabin Boys of Bontekoe, translated as Java Ho!: The Adventures of Three Boys Amid Fire, Storm and Shipwreck) Hugh Lofting – Doctor Dolittle's Circus (4th in a series of 13 books) Anne Parrish – The Dream Coach Albert Payson Terhune – The Heart of a Dog Ruth Plumly Thompson – Grampa in Oz (18th in the Oz series overall and the fourth written by her) Else Ury Nesthäkchen's Youngest (Nesthäkchens Jüngste) Nesthäkchen and Her Grandchildren (Nesthäkchen und Ihre Enkel) Gertrude Chandler Warner – The Box-Car Children Drama Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings – What Price Glory? Louis Aragon – Backs to the Wall Bertolt Brecht – The Life of Edward II of England (Leben Eduards des Zweiten von England, adapted from Marlowe) Mikhail Bulgakov – The Fatal Eggs (Роковые яйца) Alberto Casella – La morte in vacanza (Death Takes a Holiday) Noël Coward The Vortex (first performed) Hay Fever (written) Easy Virtue (written) Ramón del Valle-Inclán – Bohemian Lights (Luces de Bohemia) Henri Duvernois and Pierre Wolff – After Love Nikolai Erdman – The Mandate (Мандат) Ian Hay – The Sport of Kings Agha Hashar Kashmiri – Aankh ka Nasha George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly – Beggar on Horseback Frederick Lonsdale The Fake The Street Singer Ivor Novello – The Rat Seán O'Casey – Juno and the Paycockhttp://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=2077 2013-11-22 PlayographyIreland Juno and the Paycock Irish Theatre Institute Dublin 2017-01-21 https://web.archive.org/web/20170121082418/http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=2077 dead Eugene O'Neill – Desire Under the Elms E. Phillips Oppenheim – The Passionate Quest Louis N. Parker – Our Nell Henrik Rytter – Herman Ravn Githa Sowerby – The Stepmother (written) Sergei Tretyakov – The Gas Masks (Противогазы) Tristan Tzara – Handkerchief of Clouds (Mouchoir de Nuages) Sutton Vane – Falling Leaves Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz – The Mother (Matka) Poetry 1924 in poetry Edwin James Brady – The Land of the Sun Muhammad Iqbal – Bang-i-Dara A. A. Milne – When We Were Very Young Pablo Neruda – Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada)Tarn, Nathaniel 1975 Pablo Neruda: Selected Poems Penguin 14 Saint-John Perse – Anabase Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo – La Coupe de cendres (The cup of ashes) Sergei Yesenin – Land of Scoundrels Non-fiction Alfred Rosling Bennett – London and Londoners in the 1850s and 1860s Sarah Bernhardt – The Art of the Theatre André Breton – The Surrealist Manifesto W. E. B. Du Bois – The Gift of Black Folk Emma Goldman – My Further Disillusionment in Russia Johan Huizinga – Erasmus Agnes Mure Mackenzie – The Women in Shakespeare's Plays Eileen Power – Medieval People Robert Athlyi Rogers – Holy Piby Jadunath Sarkar – History of Aurangzib Lowell Thomas – With Lawrence in Arabia Leon Trotsky – Literature and Revolution Jim Tully – Beggars of Life Mark Twain – The Autobiography of Mark Twain Hugh Walpole – The English Novel: Some Notes on its Evolution H. G. Wells – The Story of a Great Schoolmaster Margaret Wylie – Golden Wattle Cookery Book Births January 30 Lloyd Alexander, American writer (died 2007) Margaret Yorke, English crime fiction writer (died 2012) February 3 – Andrzej Szczypiorski, Polish writer (died 2000) February 6 – Jin Yong, Chinese wuxia novelist (died 2018) February 17 – Margaret Truman, American writer and soprano (died 2008) April 3 Errol Brathwaite, New Zealand author (died 2005) Josephine Pullein-Thompson, English children's novelist (died 2014) April 8 – Humberto Costantini, Argentinian writer (died 1987) April 20 – Miroslav Komárek, Czech historical linguist (died 2013) April 24 Clement Freud, German-born English writer and broadcaster (died 2009) Clive King, English children's writer and academic (died 2018) April 26 – Solomon Mutswairo, Zimbabwean novelist and poet (died 2005) May 1 – Terry Southern, American writer (died 1995) May 3 – Yehuda Amichai, born Ludwig Pfeuffer, German-born Israeli Hebrew-language poet (died 2000) May 8 – Petru Dumitriu, Romanian novelist (died 2002) July 1 – Wang Huo, Chinese novelist and screenwriter (died 2025) July 15 – Finn Bjørnseth, Norwegian novelist (died 1973) July 30 William H. Gass, American novelist (died 2017)H. L. Hix Understanding William H. Gass https://books.google.com/books?id=yEbQDEngXTsC&pg=PA1 2002 Univ of South Carolina Press 978-1-57003-472-5 1– José Antonio Villarreal, Chicano novelist (died 2010)Salem Press American Ethnic Writers https://books.google.com/books?id=NcdXAAAAYAAJ 2009 Salem Press 978-1-58765-465-7 1053 August 3 – Leon Uris, American author (died 2003) August 6 – James Baldwin, American writer (died 1987)Emmanuel Sampath Nelson Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook https://books.google.com/books?id=rprS-mm9uywC&pg=PA12 1999 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-30501-6 12 August 15 – Robert Bolt, English screenwriter and playwright (died 1995)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-robert-bolt-1574410.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-robert-bolt-1574410.html 2022-05-01 subscription live Obituary: Robert Bolt The Independent Calder John 23 February 1995 21 July 2016 August 17 – Evan S. Connell, American author (died 2013) August 22 – Ada Jafri, Indian poet writing in Urdu (died 2015) September 4 – Joan Aiken, English novelist (died 2004) September 14 – Davidson Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat, author (died 1994) September 27 – Josef Škvorecký, Czech-born novelist and publisher (died 2012) September 30 – Truman Capote, American fiction writer (died 1984)Jay Parini The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=nMhMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA228 2004 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-515653-9 228 October 1 – Jimmy Carter, author and 39th President of the United States (died 2024) October 3 – Harvey Kurtzman, American cartoonist and editor (died 1993) October 5 – José Donoso, Chilean writer (died 1996) October 29 – Zbigniew Herbert, Polish writer (died 1998) November 21 – Christopher Tolkien, British academic and editor (died 2020)Garth John Christopher Tolkien obituary https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/20/christopher-tolkien-obituary The Guardian 22 January 2020 20 January 2020 November 22 – Rosamunde Pilcher, English novelist (died 2019) December 10 – Mitzura Arghezi, Romanian book editor, illustrator, and politician (died 2015) December 29 – Francisco Nieva, Spanish playwright, novelist and short story writer (died 2016) unknown dates Deirdre Cash (Criena Rohan), Australian novelist (died 1963)William Henry Wilde Joy W. Hooton B. G. Andrews The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=Mf5ZAAAAMAAJ 1994 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-553381-1 7 Mengistu Lemma, Ethiopian playwright (died 1988) Deaths April 21 – Marie Corelli, English author (born 1855)Eileen Bigland Marie Corelli, the Woman and the Legend: A Biography Jarrolds 1953 11 May ? – Muhammad bin Fadlallah al-Sarawi, Iranian-Iraqi faqih, religious writer and poet (born 1880)Al-Jaburi Kamel Salman Mu'jam Al-Shuʻarāʼ min Al-'Asr Al-Jahili Hatta Sanat 2002 ar:معجم الشعراء من العصر الجاهلي حتى سنة 2002 Dictionary of poets from the pre-Islamic era until 2002 5 2003 Dar Al-Kotob Al-Ilmiyah Beirut 203 first ar May 1 – Lepha Eliza Bailey, American author, lecturer, and social reformer (born 1845)October 2022 May 4 – E. Nesbit, English children's author (born 1858)E. Nesbit English author https://www.britannica.com/biography/E-Nesbit Encyclopedia Britannica 31 March 2019 en June 3 – Franz Kafka, German-language author (born 1883) Brod Max Max Brod Franz Kafka: A Biography https://archive.org/details/franzkafkabiogra00brod registration 1960 Schocken Books New York 978-0-8052-0047-8 211 June 30 – Jacob Israël de Haan, Dutch-Jewish novelist, poet and journalist (assassinated, born 1881)http://cf.uba.uva.nl/nl/publicaties/treasures/text/t44.html The Rosenthaliana's Jacob Israel de Haan Archive Marijke T. C. Stapert-Eggen University of Amsterdam Library 2013-11-22 2011-05-26 https://web.archive.org/web/20110526000444/http://cf.uba.uva.nl/nl/publicaties/treasures/text/t44.html dead August 3 – Joseph Conrad, Polish-born English novelist (born 1857)Martin Ray Joseph Conrad: Interviews and Recollections https://books.google.com/books?id=2G_hJ0JPicIC&pg=PA230 13 September 2010 University of Iowa Press 978-1-60938-017-5 230 August 25 – Velma Caldwell Melville, American editor and writer (born 1858)Mrs. James Melville https://www.newspapers.com/clip/65324951/velma-caldwell-melville-1858-1924/ The Capital Times August 26, 1924 Madison, WI 4 December 15, 2020 Newspapers.com August 26 – Julia Carter Aldrich, American author and editor (born 1834) October 9 Valery Bryusov, Russian Symbolist poet, dramatist and translator (born 1873) Lin Shu, Chinese translator (born 1852) October 12 – Anatole France, French poet, novelist and journalist (born 1844)André Gide The Journals, 1889-1949: 1889-1924 https://books.google.com/books?id=xsgNAQAAIAAJ 1956 Vintage Books 3 October 25 – Laura Jean Libbey, American novelist (born 1862)https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100116035/laura-jean-libbey-dies-at-park-slope/ Laura Jean Libbey Dies at Park Slope Home; Famous as a Novelist The Standard Union 1, 2 1924-10-26 2022-04-20 Newspapers.com October 29 – Frances Hodgson Burnett, English-born children's author (born 1849)Joanne Shattock Senior Lecturer Department of English Joanne Shattock https://books.google.com/books?id=KoEYAAAAIAAJ The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers 1993 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-214176-7 76 November 21 – Paul Milliet, French dramatist and librettist (born 1848) November 22 – Herman Heijermans, Dutch dramatist (born 1864) December 6 – Gene Stratton-Porter, American novelist and naturalist (born 1863)Barbara Olenyik Morrow Nature's Storyteller: The Life of Gene Stratton-Porter Indiana Historical Society 2010 Indianapolis 978-0-87195-284-4 28, 137-9 December 26 – Arnold Henry Savage Landor, English writer and artist (born 1865) December 27 – Jennie Thornley Clarke, American educator, writer, and anthologist (born 1860) unknown date – Nicolae Velo, Aromanian poet and diplomat in Romania (b. 1882)https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=161359 Contacte macedo-române – rememorări, completări, rectificări Constantin Ioan Mladin Annales Universitatis Apulensis. Series Philologica 15 1 37–48 2014 ro 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 in Literature: Władysław 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 References 30em External links Popular Books of 1924 at Goodreads Published 1924 Books at Goodreads 1924 Books at Goodreads