1924 in literature

Events

• Ford Maddox Ford publishes Some Do Not[?]. It is the first book of a four-volume work titled Parade's End[?] published between 1924 and 1928. In 2001 the collection would be named as part of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

New Books

• Akhnaton, King of Egypt[?] - Dmitri Merezhkovsky[?]
• The Art of the Theatre[?] - Sarah Bernhardt
• The Autobiography of Mark Twain[?] - Mark Twain
• Billy Budd, Foretopman[?] - Herman Melville
• By Sanction Of Law[?] - Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.[?]
• The Dark Frigate[?] - Charles Boardman Hawes[?]
• The Fire In The Flint[?] - Walter F. White[?]
• The Green Bay Tree[?] - Louis Bromfield[?]
• The Land of the Sun[?] (poetry) - Edwin James Brady[?]
• The Magic Mountain[?] - Thomas Mann
• The Mark of Zorro[?] - Johnston McCulley[?]
• The Old Maid[?] - Edith Wharton
• A Passage to India - E. M. Forster
• Peronnik the Fool[?] - George A. Moore
• So Big[?] - Edna Ferber
• Some Do Not[?] - Ford Maddox Ford
• The Treasures of Typhon[?] - Eden Phillpotts
• When We Were Very Young[?] - A.A. Milne

Births

• January 30 - Lloyd Alexander, writer
• February 3 - Andrzej Szczypiorski[?], writer (+ 2000)
• February 17 - Margaret Truman[?], novelist, daughter of President Harry S Truman
• August 3 - Leon Uris, author

Deaths

• April 21 - Marie Corelli, author
• June 3 - Franz Kafka, author
• August 3 - Joseph Conrad, author
• October 13 - Anatole France, writer

Awards

• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Charles Hawes[?], The Dark Frigate
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Wladyslaw Stanislaw 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