1922 in literature


This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1922.
Under modern copyright law of the United States, all works published before January 1, 1923, with a proper copyright notice entered the public domain in the United States no later than 75 years from the date of the copyright. Hence books published in 1922 or earlier entered the public domain in the United States in 1998.

Events

This is a significant year for high modernism in English literature.
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Fiction

1st ed. frontispiece by Maud and Miska Petersham

  • Imtiaz Ali Taj – Anarkali
  • Arnolt Bronnen – Parricide
  • Karel Čapek – The Makropulos Affair
  • Jean Cocteau – Antigone
  • J. B. Fagan – Treasure Island
  • Arthur Goodrich – So This Is London
  • Ian Hay – The Happy Ending
  • Hugo von Hofmannsthal – The Great World Theatre
  • Lauw Giok Lan – Pendidikan jang Kliroe
  • Eugene O'Neill – The Hairy Ape
  • Ouyang Yuqian – After Returning Home
  • Luigi Pirandello
  • *Henry IV
  • *Clothing the Naked
  • *The Imbecile
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley – The Cenci
  • Carl Sternheim – The Fossil
  • Tian Han
  • *A Night in the Coffee Shop
  • *Before Lunch
  • Ernst Toller – The Machine-Wreckers
  • Ben Travers – The Dippers
  • Arthur Valentine – Tons of Money
  • John Willard – The Cat and the Canary''

Poetry

  • Mário de Andrade – Paulicéia Desvairada
  • Manuel Maples Arce – Andamios interiores
  • Edmund Blunden – The Shepherd, and Other Poems of Peace and War
  • A. E. Coppard – Hips and Haws
  • T. S. Eliot – The Waste Land
  • Thomas Hardy – Late Lyrics and Earlier, with Many Other Verses
  • A. E. Housman – Last Poems
  • Isaac Rosenberg – Poems
  • Sacheverell Sitwell – The Hundred and One Harlequins, and Other Poems
  • Birger Sjöberg – Fridas Bok
  • César Vallejo – Trilce
  • Mohammad Yamin – Tanah Air

    Non-fiction

  • E. E. Cummings – The Enormous Room
  • Leonora Eyles – The Woman in the Little House
  • Benjamin Fondane – Imagini și cărți din Franța
  • James George Frazer – The Golden Bough
  • Magema Magwaza Fuze – Abantu Abamnyama Lapa Bavela Ngakona
  • Frank Harris – My Life and Loves
  • Agnes Jekyll – Kitchen Essays
  • T. E. Lawrence – Seven Pillars of Wisdom
  • Walter Lippmann – Public Opinion
  • James O. McKinsey – Budgetary Control
  • Bronisław Malinowski – Argonauts of the Western Pacific
  • W. Somerset Maugham – On a Chinese Screen
  • Hans Prinzhorn – Artistry of the Mentally Ill
  • Radu Rosetti – Amintiri
  • Hendrik Willem van Loon – The Story of Mankind
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein – Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

    Births

  • January 10 – Terence Kilmartin, Irish journalist and translator
  • January 22 – Howard Moss, American poet, playwright, and critic
  • January 23 – Vernon Scannell, British poet
  • February 6 – Denis Norden, English comedy writer
  • February 18 – Helen Gurley Brown, American editor and publisher
  • March 12 – Jack Kerouac, American author of On the Road
  • March 27 – Dick King-Smith, English children's author
  • April 13 – John Braine, English novelist
  • April 16
  • *Kingsley Amis, English novelist
  • *Samuel Youd, English science fiction novelist
  • April 22 – Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban novelist
  • April 28 – Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist
  • May 6 – Alan Ross, Indian-born English poet and editor
  • May 8 – Mary Q. Steele, American naturalist and author
  • May 27 – Sidney Keyes, English poet
  • May 30 – Hal Clement, American science fiction writer
  • June 11 – Erving Goffman, Canadian sociologist
  • June 29 – Vasko Popa, Yugoslav poet
  • June 30 – Mollie Hunter, Scottish novelist and children's writer
  • July 12 – Michael Ventris, English translator
  • July 15 – Cathal Ó Sándair, Irish language novelist
  • July 17 – Donald Davie, English poet
  • July 19 – George McGovern, American author and politician
  • August 9 – Philip Larkin, English poet
  • August 18 – Alain Robbe-Grillet, French novelist
  • September 12 – Jackson Mac Low, American poet
  • November 11 – Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist
  • November 16 – José Saramago, Portuguese writer
  • November 26 – Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist
  • December 11 – Grace Paley, American writer
  • December 28 – Stan Lee, American comic-book writer and editor
  • December 29 – William Gaddis, American novelist

    Deaths

  • January 3 – Berthold Delbrück, German linguist
  • January 12 – Thomas Gibson Bowles, English founder of The Lady and Vanity Fair
  • January 27
  • *Nellie Bly, American journalist
  • *Giovanni Verga, Italian author
  • February 3 – John Butler Yeats, Irish artist and poet
  • June 12 – Wolfgang Kapp, Prussian journalist
  • June 28 – Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian writer
  • July 8 – Mori Ōgai, Japanese novelist and poet
  • July 26 – Ehrman Syme Nadal, American author
  • August 14 – Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, British newspaper proprietor
  • August 25 – Edward George Honey, Australian journalist
  • August 29 – Georges Sorel, French philosopher
  • September 2 – Henry Lawson, Australian poet
  • September 4 – George R. Sims, English writer
  • September 10 – Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English poet and radical
  • October 30 – Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian historical novelist
  • November 1 – Lima Barreto, Brazilian novelist and journalist
  • November 18 – Marcel Proust, French author
  • November 24 – Erskine Childers, Irish historian and novelist
  • November 27 – Alice Meynell, English poet
  • December 13 – Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic poet and prime minister
  • December 19 – Clementina Black, English novelist and political writer
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