1923 in literature

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See also: 1922 in literature, other events of 1923, 1924 in literature, list of years in literature.

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New books

The Able McLaughlins - Margaret Wilson
Deirdre - James Stephens
Faint Perfume - Zona Gale
The Great Roxhythe � Georgette Heyer
The House at Pooh Corner - A.A. Milne
The Inimitable Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
Knock - Jules Romains
A Lost Lady - Willa Cather
Love and the Philosopher - Marie Corelli
Men Like Gods - H. G. Wells
Riceyman Steps - Arnold Bennett
Seven Trails - Max Brand
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle - Hugh Lofting
The Woman of Knockaloe - Hall Caine
The Art Spirit - Robert Henri

Births

January 6 - Jacobo Timerman, writer (d. 1999)
January 10 - Ingeborg Drewitz, writer (d. 1986)
January 16 - Anthony Hecht, poet (d. 2004)
January 29 - Paddy Chayefsky, writer (d. 1981)
January 31 - Norman Mailer, writer and journalist
February 2 - James Dickey, poet, author (d. 1997)
February 9 - Brendan Behan, author (d. 1964)
March 30 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright
May 1 - Joseph Heller, novelist (d. 1999)
May 21 - Dorothy Hewett, poet, playwright and novelist (d. 2002)

Deaths

January 9 - Katherine Mansfield, writer

Awards

Newbery Medal for children's literature: Hugh Lofting, The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle
Nobel Prize for Literature: William Butler Yeats
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Owen Davis, Icebound
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edna St. Vincent Millay: The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Willa Cather - One of Ours

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