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1 Events

• First Newbery Medal awarded to authors of distinguished books for children

• T. S. Eliot founds Criterion magazine.

• Ulysses by James Joyce is published.

2 New Books

• Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
• The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Captain Blood - Rafael Sabatini
• The Cross - Sigrid Undset
• The Enchanted April - Elizabeth Von Arnim
• The Enormous Room - E. E. CummingsEdward Estlin Cummings ( October 14, 1894 September 3, 1962) was an American poet and writer. His first book of poetry came from his 1922 manuscript, Tulips & Chimneys''. However, he was writing poetry as early as 1904 (age 10). His poetry is a complete r
• The Golden BoughThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a broad comparative cultural study of mythology and religion by Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941). Aimed at a broad literate audience raised on tales as told in Bulfinch's Age of - James George Frazer
• The Hairy Ape - Eugene O'NeillEugene (Gladstone) O'Neill ( October 16, 1888 November 27, 1953) was an American playwright best known for explorations into the darker aspects of the human condition. Frequently, his plays show people on the outer edges of society or begin in a situation
• Just WilliamJust William is the first book of children's short stories about William Brown written by Richmal Crompton, published in 1922. Just William is also sometimes used as a title for the series as a whole, and is also the name of various television, film and r - Richmal CromptonRichmal Crompton Lamburn ( November 15 1890 January 11 1969) was a British writer, most famous for her Just William short stories. Apart from William. Crompton tried several times to reformulate William for other audiences. Jimmy ( 1949) was aimed at youn
• Kai Lung's Golden Hours - Ernest BramahErnest Bramah Smith ( 1868- 1942) was a British author. He achieved the remarkable feat of being successful on a continuing basis in two strikingly different forms of fiction. His detective-fiction character, the blind but remarkably percipient Max Carrad
• La Maison de Claudine - Colette
• Life and Death of Harriett Frean - Flora Mayor
• The Naked Year - Boris Pilnyak
• On a Chinese Screen - W. Somerset Maugham
• One of Ours - Willa Cather
• Peter Whiffle - Carl Van Vechten
• Public Opinion - Walter Lippmann
• Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
• The Story of Mankind - Hendrik Willem van Loon
• Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Ulysses - James Joyce
• The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot