1922 in literature

See also: 1921 in literature, other events of 1922, 1923 in literature, list of years in literature.

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Events

First Newbery Medal awarded to authors of distinguished books for children

T. S. Eliot founds Criterion[?] magazine.

Ulysses by James Joyce is published. In 2001, the book would be one of three books by Joyce to be named as part of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. Ulysses would be chosen as the #1 book of the century.

New Books

Babbitt[?] - Sinclair Lewis
The Beautiful and Damned[?] - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Captain Blood - Rafael Sabatini
The Cross[?] - Sigrid Undset
The Enormous Room[?] - E. E. Cummings
The Golden Bough - James George Frazer[?]
The Hairy Ape[?] - Eugene O'Neill
Just William - Richmal Crompton
Kai Lung's Golden Hours[?] - Ernest Bramah[?]
La Maison de Claudine[?] - Colette
Life and Death of Harriett Frean[?] - Flora Mayor[?]
Light in August - William Faulkner
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[?] - Herman Hesse[?]
The Story of Mankind[?] - Hendrik van Loon[?]
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot

Births

February 18 - Helen Gurley Brown[?], editor, publisher
May 30 - Hal Clement, science fiction writer

Deaths

September 10 - Wilfred S. Blunt[?], poet
November 18 - Marcel Proust, author

Awards

Hawthornden Prize[?] for poetry: Edmund Blunden
Newberry Medal for children's literature: Hendrik Willem von Loon[?], The Story of Mankind
Nobel Prize for Literature: Jacinto Benavente[?]
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Eugene O'Neill, Anna Christie
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson: Collected Poems
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel : Booth Tarkington - Alice Adams

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