1921 in literature

See also: 1920 in literature, other events of 1921, 1922 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New Books

• Nets to Catch the Wind - Elinor Wylie
• Alexander's Bridge - Willa Cather
• Alice Adams - Booth Tarkington
• The Black Moth ? Georgette Heyer
• The Byzantine riddle and other stories - Eugene Walter
• Figures of Earth - James Branch Cabell
• Flappers and Philosophers - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Heloise and Abelard - George A. Moore
• Her Father's Daughter - Gene Stratton Porter
• The Idol of Paris - Sarah Bernhardt
• Joanna Godden - Sheila Kaye-Smith
• The Master of Man - Hall Caine
• The Mistress of Husaby - Sigrid Undset
• Mystery Ranch - Arthur Chapman
• Romance to the rescue - Denis Mackail
• Scaramouche - Rafael Sabatini
• The Secret Power - Marie Corelli
• She and Allan - H. Rider Haggard
• Three Soldiers - John Dos Passos

Births

• January 5 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, writer (+ 1990)
• January 19 - Patricia Highsmith, author (+ 1995)
• January 20 - Bernt Engelmann, author (+ 1994)
• May 23 - James Blish, US science fiction author

Deaths

• June 5 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Anatole France
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Zona Gale, Miss Lulu Bett
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: no award given
• Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence