1923 in literature
Overview of the events of 1923 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1923 .
For works published in the United States , this year is also significant because from January 1, 2019, these were the first in 20 years to enter the public domain . They were originally to do so in 1999, but the U.S. Congress extended the length of copyright by twenty years.[ 1]
Events
January
February 5 – Poet and super-tramp W. H. Davies marries Helen Payne, an ex-prostitute thirty years his junior, at East Grinstead in England.[ 4] February 18 (dated March) – The first issue of the pulp magazine Weird Tales horror fiction and fantasy .[ 5] April 11 – Seán O'Casey 's drama The Shadow of a Gunman Irish War of Independence , opens at the Abbey Theatre , Dublin .April 21 – The first of a series of innovative modern–dress productions of Shakespeare plays, Cymbeline H. K. Ayliff , opens at Barry Jackson 's Birmingham Repertory Theatre in England.[ 6] May 9 – The première of Bertolt Brecht 's play In the Jungle of Cities (Im Dickicht der Städte)Residenz Theatre in Munich is disrupted by Nazi demonstrators.May 11 – Dorothy L. Sayers ' fictional English detective and bibliophile, Lord Peter Wimsey , makes his first appearance in the novel Whose Body? Boni & Liveright in the United States. The first U.K. edition follows in October from T. Fisher Unwin .[ 7] July 6 – A riot breaks out at the re-staging of Tristan Tzara 's Dadaist play The Gas Heart André Breton and those aligned with Tzara. The conflict leads to a permanent split in the Dada movement and the founding of Surrealism as an alternative.[ 8] Summer – The teenage English brothers Julian and Quentin Bell begin issuing a family newspaper, the Charleston Bulletin , at their Sussex home, Charleston Farmhouse , with occasional contributions by their maternal aunt Virginia Woolf .
September – T. S. Eliot 's poem The Waste Land 1922 ) is first published in the United Kingdom in book form, complete with notes, in a limited edition by the Hogarth Press of Richmond upon Thames . The firm is run by Eliot's Bloomsbury Group friends Leonard and Virginia Woolf , and the type handset by Virginia (completed in July).[ 9] [ 10]
October 8 – A production of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus The Old Vic , directed by Robert Atkins, is the first in London since 1857. It is also the first to restore the full original text since the playwright's time.December – Persian poet Nima Yooshij publishes the poem Afsaneh She'r-e Nimaa'i school of modernist poetry .
December 28 – George Bernard Shaw 's drama Saint Joan Garrick Theatre (New York City) on Broadway by the Theatre Guild , with Winifred Lenihan in the title role.[ 11] unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 2 – Rachel Waterhouse , English historian and author (died 2020 )January 6 – Jacobo Timerman , Argentine writer (died 1999 )[ 24] January 9 – David Holbrook , English novelist, poet and academic (died 2011 )January 10 – Ingeborg Drewitz , German novelist and dramatist (died 1986 )January 16 – Anthony Hecht , American poet (died 2004 )January 29 – Paddy Chayefsky , American screenwriter (died 1981 )[ 25] January 31 – Norman Mailer , American writer and journalist (died 2007 )[ 26] February 2 – James Dickey , American poet and author (died 1997 )February 9 – Brendan Behan , Irish writer and playwright (died 1964 )February 12 – Alan Dugan , American poet and author (died 2003 )February 23 – Mary Francis Shura , American writer (died 1991 )February 25 – Harry Leslie Smith , English writer and political commentator (died 2018 )[ 27] March 1 – Shantabai Kamble , Indian Marathi writer and activist (died 2023 )March 2 – Harriet Frank Jr. , American film writer and producer (died 2020 )[ 28] March 24 – Michael Legat , English writer and editor (died 2011 )[ 29] March 26 – Elizabeth Jane Howard , English novelist (died 2014 )March 27
March 30 – Milton Acorn , Canadian poet, writer, and playwright (died 1986 )April 3
April 19 – Stuart H. Walker , American Olympic yachtsman and writer (died 2018 )April 20 – Bill Spence , English novelist (died 2024 )April 21 – John Mortimer , English dramatist, screenwriter and barrister (died 2009 )April 22 – Paula Fox , American writer (died 2017 )April 23 – Manuel Mejía Vallejo , Colombian novelist (died 1998 )May 1
May 21 – Dorothy Hewett , Australian poet, playwright and novelist (died 2002 )[ 30] May 22 – Aline Griffith, Dowager Countess of Romanones , Spanish-American cipher clerk, aristocrat, socialite and writer (died 2017 )May 24 – Knut Ahnlund , Swedish literary historian and writer (died 2012 )[ 31] [ 32] June 7 – Martyn Goff , English author and bookseller (died 2015 )June 14 – Judith Kerr , German-born English children's writer (died 2019 )[ 33] June 23 – John E. Sarno , American medical writer (died 2017 )[ 34] June 24 – Yves Bonnefoy , French poet and essayist (died 2016 )July 2 – Wisława Szymborska , Polish poet and essayist (died 2012 )July 5
July 12 – James E. Gunn , American science fiction writer (died 2020 )July 17 – James Purdy , American writer (died 2009 )August 21 – Emma Smith (Elspeth Hallsmith), English novelist and autobiographer (died 2018 )September 13 – Miroslav Holub , Czech poet (died 1998 )September 22 – Dannie Abse , Welsh poet and writer (died 2014 )October 5 – Stig Dagerman , Swedish author and journalist (died 1954 )October 15 – Italo Calvino , Italian writer (died 1985 )October 21 – Mihai Gafița , Romanian editor, literary historian and children's novelist (died 1977 )October 24 – Denise Levertov , English-born American poet (died 1997 )November 20 – Nadine Gordimer , South African writer (died 2014 )November 23 – Gloria Whelan , American poet, short story writer, and novelistDecember 14 – Gerard Reve , Dutch novelist and poet (died 2006 )December 21 – Richard Hugo , American poet and educator (died 1982 )unknown date – Qu Bo (曲波), Chinese novelist (died 2002 )[ 35]
Deaths
January 3 – Jaroslav Hašek , Czech novelist (born 1883 )January 9 – Katherine Mansfield , New Zealand-born fiction writer (born 1888 )[ 36] February 1 – Ernst Troeltsch , German theologian (born 1865 )February 8 – Bernard Bosanquet , English philosopher and political theorist (born 1848 )February 15 – Minnie Willis Baines , American eauthor (born 1845 )[ 37] February 25 – Emeline S. Burlingame , American editor and reformer (born 1836 )March 6 – William Boyle , Irish dramatist and short story writer (born 1853 )March 26 – Sarah Bernhardt , French actress (born 1844 )March 29 – J. Smeaton Chase , English-born American author and photographer (born 1864 )April 30 – Emerson Hough , American fiction author (born 1857 )May 10 – Ulderiko Donadini , Croatian novelist, dramatist and short story writer (suicide, born 1894 )May 23 – Henry Bradley , English philologist and lexicographer (born 1845 )June 3 – Estelle Mendell Amory , American educator and author (born 1846 )June 4 – Hume Nisbet , Scottish thriller writer, poet and painter (born 1849 )June 10
June 22 – Morris Rosenfeld , Yiddish poet (born 1862 )June 24 – Edith Södergran , Finnish Swedish poet (born 1892 )July 9 – Florence Caddy , English non-fiction writer (born 1837 )[ 38] July 16
August 19 – Vilfredo Pareto , Italian economist, political scientist and philosopher (born 1848 )August 24 – Kate Douglas Wiggin , American children's author (born 1856 )October 6
Awards
Notes
Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN 9780198715542
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