1925 in literature

Events

• Random House, book publishers, founded in New York City by Bennett Cerf[?] and Donald Klopfer[?].

• April: F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway meet in the Dingo Bar on rue Delambre, in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France shortly after the publication of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and shortly before Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises[?] is to be published.

• The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald is published. In 2001, the book would be one of two books by Fitzgerald to be named to the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

• Ford Maddox Ford publishes No More Parades[?]. It is the second 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.

• An American Tragedy[?] by Theodore Dreiser is published. In 2001, the book would be one of two books by Dreiser to be named to the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

New Books

• An American Tragedy[?] - Theodore Dreiser
• Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis
• The Axe[?] - Sigrid Undset
• Barren Ground[?] - Ellen Glasgow[?]
• Carry On, Jeeves[?] - P. G. Wodehouse
• The Counterfeiters[?] - Andre Gide
• Dark Laughter[?] - Sherwood Anderson[?]
• Drums[?] - James Boyd[?]
• The Emigrants - Johan Bojer[?]
• The Game of Love and Death[?] - Romain Rolland
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes[?] - Anita Loos[?]
• The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
• Hangman's House[?] - Donn Byrne[?]
• In Our Time[?] - Ernest Hemingway
• In the American Grain[?] - William Carlos Williams
• The Informer - Liam O'Flaherty[?]
• L'Ange qui pleure[?] - André Billy[?]
• Manhattan Transfer[?] - John Dos Passos
• Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler
• No More Parades[?] - Ford Maddox Ford
• Paul Bunyan - James Stevens[?]
• The Phantom Public[?] - Walter Lippmann
• Politicians and the Press[?] - Max Aitken
• Possession[?] - Louis Bromfield[?]
• Power[?] - Lion Feuchtwanger[?]
• The Prince of Washington Square[?] - Harry F. Liscomb[?]
• The Professor's House[?] - Willa Cather
• The Sailor's Return[?] - David Garnett[?]
• Stone Desert[?] - Hugo Wast[?]
• Sutter's Gold[?] - Blaise Cendrars
• Tales from Silver Lands[?] - Charles Finger[?]
• The Trial - Franz Kafka
• The Venetian Glass Nephew[?] - Elinor Wylie[?]
• The White Guard[?] - Mihail Bulgakov[?]

Births

• January 8 - James Saunders[?], dramatist
• January 11 - William Styron, writer
• February 25 - Edward Gorey, illustrator (+ 2000)
• March 25 - Flannery O'Connor, (+ 1964)

Deaths

• May 12 - Amy Lowell, poet
• George Washington Cable[?] - American writer

Awards

• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Charles Finger[?], Tales from Silver Lands
• Nobel Prize for Literature: -George Bernard Shaw
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Sidney Howard[?], They Knew What They Wanted
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson: The Man Who Died Twice
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Edna Ferber - So Big