1923 in literature

Events

New Books

• The Able McLaughlins[?] - Margaret Wilson[?]
• Deirdre[?] - James Stephens[?]
• Faint Perfume[?] - Zona Gale[?]
• The House at Pooh Corner[?] - A.A. Milne
• The Inimitable Jeeves[?] - P. G. Wodehouse
• Knock[?] - Jules Romains[?]
• A Lost Lady[?] - Willa Cather
• Love and the Philosopher[?] - Marie Corelli
• Riceyman Steps[?] - Arnold Bennett
• Seven Trails[?] - Max Brand[?]
• The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle[?] - Hugh Lofting
• The Woman of Knockaloe[?] - Hall Caine

Births

• January 6 - Jacobo Timerman, writer (+ 1999)
• January 10 - Ingeborg Drewitz[?], writer (+ 1986)
• January 29 - Paddy Chayefsky[?], writer (+ 1981)
• January 31 - Norman Mailer, writer and journalist
• February 2 - James Dickey, poet, author (+ 1997)
• February 9 - Brendan Behan[?], author (+ 1964)
• March 30 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright
• May 1 - Joseph Heller, novelist (+ 1999)

Deaths

Awards

• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Hugh Lofting, The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle
• Nobel Prize for Literature: William Butler Yeats
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Owen Davis[?], Icebound
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edna St. Vincent Millay: The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Willa Cather - One of Ours