Calendar of Literary Facts
1923
- Rainer Maria Rilke publishes Duineser Elegien Duino Elegies
- P. G. Wodehouse publishes The Inimitable Jeeves
- Jean Toomer publishes Cane
- Dorothy L. Sayers publishes her first detective novel, Whose Body?, a work which introduces the detective Lord Peter Wimsey
- Richard Hugo is born
- E. E. Cummings publishes Tulips and Chimneys
- Kahlil Gibran publishes The Prophet
- Mina Loy publishes Lunar Baedecker
- The Turkish Republic is proclaimed
- Adolf Hitler conducts the ill-fated Beer Hall Putsch in Munich
- Ernest Hemingway publishes his first work between hard covers, Three Stories and Ten Poems
- Willa Cather receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for One of Ours
- Owen Davis receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for Icebound
- Margaret Wilson publishes The Able McLaughlins
- Owen Davis’s Icebound is first performed
- Arnold Bennett publishes Riceyman Steps
- Edna St. Vincent Millay receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver and other works
- Robert Frost publishes New Hampshire
- Marcus Garvey publishes The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey; or, Africa for the Africans
- Rainer Maria Rilke publishes Die Sonette an Orpheus: Geschrieben als ein Grab-Mal fuer Wera Ouckama Knoop (Sonnets to Orpheus, Written as a Monument for Wera Ouckama Knoop)
- William Butler Yeats receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Time begins publication
- Italo Calvino is born
- Louise Bogan publishes Body of This Death
- Joseph Heller is born (May 1)
- Wislawa Szymborska is born (July 2)
- James Dickey is born (February 2)
- Francis King is born (March 4)
- Sembene Ousmane is born (January 8)
- James Schuyler is born (November 9)
- Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp (Katherine Mansfield) dies (January 9)
- Brendan Behan is born (February 9)
- Earl Hamner Jr. is born (July 10)
- Alan Dugan is born (February 12)
- Anthony Hecht is born (January 16)
- Nadine Gordimer is born (November 20)
- John Mortimer is born (April 21)
- Dannie Abse is born (September 22)
- Denise Levertov is born (October 24)
- Yves Bonnefoy is born (June 24)
- Louis Simpson is born (March 27)
- Shusaku Endo is born (March 27)
- Sidney (“Paddy”) Chayefsky is born (January 29)
- Norman Mailer is born (January 31)
