1921 in literature
See also: 1920 in literature, other events of 1921, 1922 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Jorge Luis Borges returns to Buenos Aires after a period living in Europe.
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 Moore (novelist)
- 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)
- February 4 - Betty Friedan, feminist author, The Feminine Mystique
- May 23 - James Blish, US science fiction author
- date unknown - George Mackay Brown, poet
- date unknown - Israil Bercovici, dramatist and historian
Deaths
- March 22 - Ernest William Hornung, creator of "Raffles"
- May 5 - Alfred Hermann Fried, publicist
- June 5 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright
- July 4 - Antoni Grabowski, promoter of Esperanto
- August 7 - Alexander Blok, poet
- August 20 - Ernest Daudet, novelist, historian and biographer
- October 10 - Otto von Gierke, historian
Awards
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Anatole France
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Zona Gale, Miss Lulu Bett
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel : Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence