1921 in literature

none 1921 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1921. Events thumb|right|Joseph Schildkraut (Liliom), Evelyn Chard (Louise) and Eva Le Gallienne (Julie) in the 1921 Theatre Guild production of Liliom January 1 – The publishing firm Jonathan Cape is founded in Bloomsbury, London, by Herbert Jonathan Cape and Wren Howard.The Bookseller https://books.google.com/books?id=aOxOAAAAIAAJ 1970 J. Whitaker 2640 February – Margaret Caroline Anderson and Jane Heap, publishers of The Little Review, are convicted of obscenity in a New York court for publishing the "Nausicaa" episode of James Joyce's Ulysses.Ellmann Richard Richard Ellmann James Joyce https://archive.org/details/jamesjoyce00361 registration Oxford University Press 1982 New York 502–04 0-1950-3103-2 March – Jorge Luis Borges returns to his native Buenos Aires in Argentina after a period living with his family in Europe. April 20 – The Hungarian Ferenc Molnár's play Liliom is first produced on Broadway in English. May 9 – The première of Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author (Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore) at the Teatro Valle in Rome divides the audience. May – A production of Pericles, Prince of Tyre directed by Robert Atkins at The Old Vic, London, restores the unexpurgated text for the first time since Shakespeare's day. June 6 – The première of Tristan Tzara's parodic The Gas Heart (Le Cœur à gaz) takes place at a Dada Salon at the Galerie Montaigne in Paris. It provokes audience derision. June 10 – D. H. Lawrence's novel Women in Love is first published commercially by Martin Secker in London. September 5 – The Cervantes Theatre (Buenos Aires) opens with a production of Lope de Vega's La dama boba (The Foolish Lady, 1613).http://www.teatrocervantes.gov.ar/sitio/site/home/home.php Teatro Nacional Cervantes es 2014-01-14 September 26 – The Maddermarket Theatre in Norwich, England, an old chapel, is turned into an English Renaissance theatre for period drama by an amateur repertory company directed by Walter Nugent Monck.Norwich Players' New Theatre The Times London 1921-09-27 8 42836 It opens with As You Like It. December 9 – John William Gott becomes the last person in England imprisoned for blasphemous libel. December 31 – Mexican poet Manuel Maples Arce distributes the first Stridentist manifesto, Comprimido estridentista, in the broadsheet Actual No. 1 in Mexico City. New books Fiction Elizabeth von Arnim – Vera Römhild Juliane Femininity and Authorship in the Novels of Elizabeth von Arnim: At Her Most Radiant Moment 9 September 2018 2014 Rowman & Littlefield 9781611477047 116 https://books.google.com/books?id=-p_0AwAAQBAJ&q=%22elizabeth+von+arnim%22+%22vera%22&pg=PA116 Ryūnosuke Akutagawa – "Autumn Mountain" (秋山, Akiyama) Modern Japanese Stories Morris Ivan Ivan Morris 1992 1962 Tuttle Publishing 0-8048-1226-8 174 Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan the TerribleCatalog of Copyright Entries: Books. Part 1, group 1. Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1922 433 Karel Čapek – Trapné povídky (Embarrassing Stories, translated as Money and other stories)New Makers of Modern Culture Taylor & Francis 2016 9781136768828 255 Mary Cholmondeley – The Romance of His Life and Other RomancesW de la L Oulton Carolyn Schatz SueAnn Mary Cholmondeley Reconsidered 2016 Routledge 9781317315827 6 Introduction Walter de la Mare – Memoirs of a MidgetMichael Dirda, Classics for Pleasure (New York: Harcourt, 2007), p. 144. Ethel M. Dell - The Obstacle Race Mary Frances Dowdall – Three Loving Ladies Edna Ferber - The Girls Fran Saleški Finžgar – Pod svobodnim soncem (Under the free sun) F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Beautiful and Damned (serialized in Metropolitan Magazine (New York)) Mikkjel Fønhus – Troll-ElgenKristian Elster Kristian Elster (born 1881) Illustreret Norsk litteraturhistorie 2 808 no 1924 Gyldendal Kristiania John Galsworthy – To Let (last book of The Forsyte Saga) H. Rider Haggard – She and Allan A. P. Herbert – The House by the River Georgette Heyer – The Black Moth E. M. Hull – The Shadow of the East A. S. M. Hutchinson – If Winter ComesQ. D. Leavis Q. D. Leavis Fiction and the Reading Public rev. London Chatto & Windus 1965 Aldous Huxley – Crome YellowAldous Huxley Crome Yellow https://books.google.com/books?id=SQJ70RXjL5wC 2001 Dalkey Archive Press 978-1-56478-304-2 Frigyes Karinthy – Capillaria Sheila Kaye-Smith – Joanna Godden Gaston Leroux – The Crime of Rouletabille Marie Belloc Lowndes – What Timmy Did Denis Mackail – Romance to the Rescue Compton Mackenzie – Rich RelativesAndro Linklater. Compton Mackenzie: A Life Hogarth Press, 1992. Page 336 René Maran – Batouala L. M. Montgomery – Rilla of Ingleside George Moore – Heloise and Abelard Paul Morand – Tender Shoots (Tendres stocks, short stories) E. Phillips Oppenheim – Jacob's Ladder Baroness Orczy Castles in the Air (short stories) The First Sir Percy Alejandro Pérez Lugín – Currito of the Cross (Currito de la Cruz) Gene Stratton Porter – Her Father's Daughter Marcel Proust The Guermantes Way (Le Côté de Guermantes II, second part of vol. 3 of In Search of Lost Time) Sodom and Gomorrah (Sodome et Gomorrhe I, first part of vol. 4 of In Search of Lost Time) Sukumar Ray – HaJaBaRaLa Iñigo Ed. Regalado – May Pagsinta'y Walang Puso Dorothy Richardson - Deadlock Berta Ruck - Sweet Stranger Rafael Sabatini – Scaramouche Naoya Shiga – A Dark Night's Passing (暗夜行路, An'ya Kōro; serialized 1921–37) May Sinclair - Mr. Waddington of Wyck Annie M. Smithson - Carmen Cavanagh Booth Tarkington – Alice Adams Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy – The Road to Calvary (publication begins) Sigrid Undset – Husfrue (The Wife or The Mistress of Husaby, second part of Kristin Lavransdatter) Edgar Wallace The Book of All Power The Law of the Four Just MenEdgar Wallace The Four Just Men https://books.google.com/books?id=bICYDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT99 3 March 2010 House of Stratus 978-0-7551-2247-9 99 Eugene Walter – The Byzantine Riddle and other stories Arthur Weigall – Burning Sands Virginia Woolf – Monday or Tuesday Elinor Wylie – Nets to Catch the Wind Francis Brett Young The Black Diamond The Red Knight Yevgeny Zamyatin – We (Мы; completed) Children and young people Dorita Fairlie Bruce – The Senior Prefect (later entitled Dimsie Goes to School) Eleanor Farjeon – Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Charles Boardman Hawes – The Great Quest Hendrik Willem van Loon – The Story of Mankind (non-fiction) Else Ury – Nesthäkchen Flies From the NestRudolf Käser Beate Schappach Krank geschrieben: Gesundheit und Krankheit im Diskursfeld von Literatur, Geschlecht und Medizin https://books.google.com/books?id=SF4WBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA147 31 October 2014 transcript Verlag 978-3-8394-1760-7 147 de Drama Hjalmar Bergman – Farmor och vår Herre (Grandmother and Our Lord, translated as Thy Rod and Thy Staff) Dorothy Brandon – Araminta Arrives Karel Čapek – R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (performed) Karel and Josef Čapek – Pictures from the Insects' Life (Ze života hmyzu, published) Clemence Dane – A Bill of Divorcement Brandon Fleming – The Eleventh Commandment Gerald du Maurier – Bulldog Drummond (with H.C. McNeile) Susan Glaspell – Inheritors (written) and The Verge (performed) Ian Hay – A Safety Match A. de Herz – Mărgeluș (Tiny Bead) Avery Hopwood – The Demi-Virgin A. A. Milne – The Truth About Blayds René Morax – Le Roi David Roland Pertwee – Out to Win Luigi Pirandello – Six Characters in Search of an Author Sophie Treadwell - Rights Tristan Tzara – The Gas Heart Edgar Wallace – M'Lady Raden Adipati Aria Muharam Wiranatakusumah – Lutung Kasarung Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz – The Water Hen (Kurka Wodna) Poetry 1921 in poetry Robert Frost – Mountain Interval (second print) Langston Hughes – "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", in The Crisis Amy Lowell - Legends Katherine Tynan - The Handsome Brandons William Carlos Williams – Sour Grapes William Butler Yeats – Michael Robartes and the Dancer Non-fiction Adolphe Appia – L'Œuvre d'art vivant (The Living Work of Art) Charles Bean (ed.) – Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, vol. 1 Joseph Chaikov – Skulptur (first Yiddish-language work on the subject)https://books.google.com/books?id=fPjpAAAAMAAJ&q=skulptur Tradition and revolution: the Jewish renaissance in Russian avant-garde art, 1912-1928 Ruth Apter-Gabriel Israel Museum 1987 67 9789652780713 Grace King– Creole Families of New Orleans Frank H. Knight – Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit D. H. Lawrence Sea and Sardinia (as Lawrence H. Davison) – Movements in European History North-West Frontier Province – Administration Report of the North-west Frontier Province for 1922-23 Edward Sapir – Language: an introduction to the study of speech Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk – Further Essays on Capital and Interest Ludwig Wittgenstein – Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Zitkala-Sa – American Indian Stories Births January 5 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (died 1990) January 19 – Patricia Highsmith, American crime writer (died 1995) January 21 – Charles Eric Maine, English science fiction writer (died 1981) February 4 – Betty Friedan, American feminist author (died 2006) February 5 – Marion Eames, Welsh novelist writing mainly in Welsh (died 2007)https://biography.wales/article/s8-EAME-MAR-1921 Eames, Marion Griffith (1921-2007), historical novelist J. Beverley Smith Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 6 March 2021 February 15 – Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (died 1985) March 1 – Richard Wilbur, American poet and translator (died 2017) March 3 – Paul Guimard, French novelist (died 2004) March 24 – Wilson Harris, Guyanese-born poet, novelist and essayist (died 2018) April 21 – Angela Bianchini, Italian fiction writer and literary critic (died 2018) May 20 – Wolfgang Borchert, German author and playwright (died 1947) May 23 James Blish, American science fiction author (died 1975) Ray Lawler, Australian dramatist (died 2024) May 29 Mona Van Duyn, American poet (died 2004) Henry Scholberg, American bibliographer (died 2012) June 11 – Michael Meyer, English translator and biographer (died 2000) June 12 – Christopher Derrick, English author, critic, and academic (died 2007)Obituary https://web.archive.org/web/20081121204255/http://thomasaquinas.edu/news/newsletter/2007/fall/derrick_article.html 21 November 2008 in Thomas Aquinas College Newsletter, Fall 2007. June 14 – John Bradburne, English poet and missionary (killed 1979) August 11 – Alex Haley, American writer (died 1992) August 17 – Elinor Lyon, British children's writer (died 2008)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/elinor-lyon-author-of-camping-and-tramping-adventure-tales-peopled-with-feisty-fearless-girls-and-boys-841356.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/elinor-lyon-author-of-camping-and-tramping-adventure-tales-peopled-with-feisty-fearless-girls-and-boys-841356.html 2022-05-01 subscription live Elinor Lyon: Author of 'camping and tramping' adventure tales peopled with feisty, fearless girls and boys 23 October 2011 The Independent 20 January 2021 August 18 – Frédéric Jacques Temple, French poet and writer (died 2020) August 25 – Brian Moore, Northern Irish-Canadian writer (died 1999) September 12 – Stanisław Lem, Polish science fiction novelist, philosopher, satirist and physician (died 2006) September 15 – Richard Gordon, English author (died 2017) September 16 – Mohamed Talbi, Tunisian historian (died 2017)Ataullah Siddiqui Christian-Muslim Dialogue in the Twentieth Century https://books.google.com/books?id=ZafJ7LR0a2oC&pg=PA136 15 April 1997 Palgrave Macmillan 978-0-312-16510-9 136 September 26 – Cyprian Ekwensi, Nigerian writer (died 2007) October 2 – Edmund Crispin (Robert Bruce Montgomery), English crime writer (died 1978)https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-31461 978-0-19-861412-8 10.1093/ref:odnb/31461 Montgomery, (Robert) Bruce [pseud. Edmund Crispin] (1921–1978), composer and detective novelist October 9 – Tadeusz Różewicz, Polish poet, dramatist and writer (died 2014)https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/04/tadeusz-rozewicz Tadeusz Różewicz obituary 4 May 2014 Katarzyna Zechenter The Guardian 9 July 2024 October 10 – James Clavell, Australian-born British novelist (died 1994)Charles Edmund Dumaresq (James) Clavell (1921–1994) October 17 – George Mackay Brown, Scottish poet (died 1996)Maggie Fergusson, George Mackay Brown: The Life, John Murray, 2006, 0-7195-5659-7 p. 8 November 6 – James Jones, American novelist (died 1977) November 22 – Brian Cleeve, Irish author (died 2003) December 20 – Israil Bercovici, Romanian dramatist and historian (died 1988) Deaths February 6 – Abba Goold Woolson, American author and poet (born 1838) February 17 – Rosetta Luce Gilchrist, American physician, author (born 1850) February 24 – John Habberton, American critic (born 1842)Non Series #138- Trif and Trixy // John Habberton autograph 7 March 2012. Accessed 9 January 2012. March 22 – E. W. Hornung, English author (born 1866) April 6 – Maximilian Berlitz, German-born American textbook writer and language school proprietor (born 1852) May 5 – Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian publicist (born 1864) May 12 – Emilia Pardo Bazán, Spanish novelist (born 1851)Pardo Bazán, Emilia 20 801 James Fitzmaurice-Kelly James Fitzmaurice-Kelly May 13 – Jean Aicard, French writer (born 1848) June – N. D. Popescu-Popnedea, Romanian novelist, folklorist, archivist and almanac compiler (born 1843) June 5 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright (born 1862) June 18 – Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Uruguayan writer (born 1851)Carlos A. Solé Maria Isabel Abreu Latin American Writers https://books.google.com/books?id=5bRZAAAAYAAJ 1989 Scribner 978-0-684-18597-2 299 June 20 – Mary Lynde Craig, American writer, teacher, attorney, activist (born 1834) June 26 – Alfred Percy Sinnett, English Theosophist author (born 1840) July 4 – Antoni Grabowski, Polish Esperantist (born 1857)Julius Glück, El la klasika periodo de Esperanto (Grabowski kaj Kabe), en Muusses Esperanto Biblioteko No. 5, Purmerend, 1937. p. 6. July 7 – Luca Caragiale, Romanian poet, novelist and translator (pneumonia, born 1893) August 1 – Helen Vickroy Austin, American journalist and horticulturist (born 1829) August 7 – Alexander Blok, Russian poet (born 1880) August 8 – Juhani Aho, Finnish author and journalist (born 1861)http://www.kansallisbiografia.fi/kb/artikkeli/2806/ Aho, Juhani (1861–1921) kansallisbiografia.fi 1 December 2015 August 19 – Georges Darien, French anarchist writer (born 1862) August 25 – Nikolay Gumilev, Russian poet (executed, born 1886) September 3 - Maria I. Johnston, American author, journalist, editor and lecturer (born 1835) September 22 - Ivan Vazov, Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright (born 1850)Frank Northen Magill Masterplots Cyclopedia of World Authors https://books.google.com/books?id=OdVOAQAAMAAJ 1958 Salem Press 1106 September 26 – Matei Donici, Bessarabian Romanian poet and professional soldier (born 1847) October 1 – Lillian Rozell Messenger, American poet (born 1843)OBITUARY. MRS. LILLIAN MESSENGER. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31056494/lillian-rozell-messenger/ 28 August 2022 Daily Arkansas Gazette 7 October 1921 14 October 10 – Otto von Gierke, German historian (born 1841)Otto von Gierke Community in Historical Perspective https://books.google.com/books?id=GMQ4gwm31kEC&pg=PR11 2 May 2002 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-89323-7 11 November 1 – Sarah Dyer Hobart, American author of poetry, prose, and songs (born 1845/46)Poetess Buried https://www.newspapers.com/clip/80759415/sarah-dyer-hobart-1845-1921/ Wisconsin State Journal November 6, 1921 Madison, WI 5 Newspapers.com July 4, 2021 November 8 – Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet, dramatist and translator (born 1849) November 14 – Christabel Rose Coleridge, English novelist and editor (born 1843) December 28 – Hester A. Benedict, American poet (born 1838)Obituary of Hester Baldwin Benedict Dickinson https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15483661/obituary-of-hester-baldwin-benedict/ 24 August 2022 Oakland Tribune 29 December 1921 10 en date unknown Emma Churchman Hewitt, American author and journalist (born 1850)December 2022 Della Campbell MacLeod, American author and journalist (born ca. 1884) December 2022 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 Victoriahttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Lytton-Strachey Lytton Strachey British biographer Encyclopædia Britannica 2018-01-15 Nobel Prize in 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 References 30em External links Popular Books of 1921 at Goodreads Published 1921 Books at Goodreads 1921 Books at Goodreads