1924 in literature

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New Books

• Akhnaton, King of Egypt - Dmitri Merezhkovsky
• The Autobiography of Mark Twain - Mark Twain
• Billy Budd, Foretopman - Herman Melville
• By Sanction Of Law - Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.
• The Dark Frigate - Charles Boardman Hawes
• The Fire In The Flint - Walter F. White
• The Green Bay Tree - Louis Bromfield
• The Land of the Sun ( poetry ) - Edwin James Brady
• The Mark of Zorro - Johnston McCulley
• The Old Maid - Edith Wharton
• Peronnik the Fool - George A. Moore
• So Big - Edna Ferber
• Some Do Not, the first volume of Ford Madox Ford's Parade 's End (1924-1928)
• The Treasures of Typhon - Eden Phillpotts
• The White Guard - Mikhail Bulgakov
• When We Were Very Young - A. A. Milne
• The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann

Born

Died

• April 21 - Marie Corelli, writer
• June 3 - Franz Kafka, Czech writer
• August 3 - Joseph Conrad, author
• October 13 - Anatole France, author
• December 6 - Gene Stratton Porter, writer

Literary Awards

• Büchner Prize Alfred Bock (1859-1932)
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Charles Hawes The Dark Frigate
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont, The farmers
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Hatcher Hughes, Hell-Bent Fer Heaven
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Frost, New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes
• Pulitzer Prize for short story: Margaret Wilson, The Able McLaughlins