1921 in literature

Events

New Books

• Alexander's Bridge[?] - Willa Cather
• Alice Adams - Booth Tarkington
• The Byzantine riddle and other stories[?] - Eugene Walter[?]
• Figures of Earth[?] - James Branch Cabell
• Flappers and Philosophers[?] - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Heloise and Abelard[?] - George A. Moore
• Her Father's Daughter[?] - Gene Stratton Porter[?]
• The Idol of Paris[?] - Sarah Bernhardt
• Joanna Godden[?] - Sheila Kaye-Smith[?]
• The Master of Man[?] - Hall Caine
• The Mistress of Husaby[?] - Sigrid Undset
• Mystery Ranch[?] - Arthur Chapman[?]
• Romance to the rescue[?] - Denis Mackail[?]
• Scaramouche[?] - Rafael Sabatini
• The Secret Power[?] - Marie Corelli
• She and Allan[?] - H. Rider Haggard
• Three Soldiers[?] - John Dos Passos

Births

• January 5 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, writer (+ 1990)
• January 19 - Patricia Highsmith, author (+ 1995)
• January 20 - Bernt Engelmann[?], author (+ 1994)
• May 23 - James Blish, US science fiction author

Deaths

• June 5 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright

Awards

• 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