1922 in literature

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 - Hermann Hesse
• The Story of Mankind - Hendrik Willem 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
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Hendrik Willem van 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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