Calendar of Literary Facts
1924
- H.D. publishes Heliodora, and Other Poems
- Edwin Arlington Robinson publishes The Man Who Died Twice
- Will Rogers publishes The Illiterate Digest
- Jessie Redmon Fauset publishes There Is Confusion
- Wladyslaw Reymont receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Margaret Wilson receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Able McLaughlins
- Leonid Leonov publishes Barsuki (The Badgers)
- Ring Lardner publishes How to Write Short Stories (with Examples)
- The airship Z-R-3 becomes the first aircraft to cross the Atlantic Ocean
- Robert Frost receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for New Hampshire
- Greece adopts a republican form of government
- Ernest Hemingway publishes the story collection in our time
- H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan found The American Mercury
- Thomas Mann publishes The Magic Mountain
- Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf (My Struggle)
- E. M. Forster publishes A Passage to India
- Hatcher Hughes receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for Hell-Bent fer Heaven
- Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock is produced
- A. A. Milne publishes When We Were Very Young
- Louis Bromfield publishes The Green Bay Tree
- Yehuda Amichai is born
- Edna Ferber publishes So Big
- Walter White publishes The Fire in the Flint
- Roy Campbell publishes The Flaming Terrapin
- James Baldwin is born (August 2)
- Franz Kafka dies (July 2)
- Leon Uris is born (August 3)
- Joseph Conrad dies (August 3)
- Joan (Delano) Aiken is born (September 4)
- José Donoso is born (October 5)
- V. C. Andrews is born (June 6)
- Kobo Abe is born (March 7)
- Lisel Mueller is born (February 8)
- Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault (Anatole France) dies (October 12)
- Claribel Alegría is born (May 12)
- Robert Bolt is born (August 15)
- Evan S. Connell Jr. is born (August 17)
- Margaret Truman is born (February 17)
- Thomas Berger is born (July 20)
- Rosamunde Pilcher is born (September 22)
- Sidney Howard’s They Knew What They Wanted is first performed (November 24)
- Josef Skvorecky is born (September 27)
- Carl Spitteler dies (December 28)
- Dennis Brutus is born (November 28)
- Sidney Corman is born (June 29)
- Zbigniew Herbert is born (October 29)
- Truman Persons (Truman Capote) is born (September 30)
- Lloyd (Chudley) Alexander is born (December 30)
- José Antonio Villarreal is born (July 30)
