1924 in literature

See also: 1923 in literature, other events of 1924, 1925 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Ford Madox Ford publishes Some Do Not. It is the first book of a four-volume work titled Parade's End published between 1924 and 1928.

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 Green Hat – Michael Arlen
• The Land of the Sun (poetry) – Edwin James Brady
• The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
• The Old Maid – Edith Wharton
• A Passage to India – E. M. Forster
• Peronnik the Fool – George Moore (novelist)
• 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
• September 4 – Joan Aiken, novelist

Deaths

• April 21 – Marie Corelli, author
• May 4 – E. Nesbit, children's author
• June 3 – Franz Kafka, author
• August 3 – Joseph Conrad, author
• October 13 – Anatole France, writer
• October 25 – Laura Jean Libbey, novelist
• December 6 – Gene Stratton Porter, American novelist and naturalist
• December 26 – Arnold Henry Savage Landor, writer and artist, grandson of Walter Savage Landor

Awards

• Newbery 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