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The year 1920 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Non-fiction 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Awards

[edit] Events

• "Hercule Poirot" makes his first appearance.
• Beyond the Horizon, Eugene O'Neill's first full-length play, opens at a special matinee at the Morosco Theater on February 2 – partly as an experiment on the part of the producer, partly to quiet the pleading of actor Richard Bennett who has demanded a chance to play the lead role. Reviewers hail the play and O'Neill becomes famous. The Emperor Jones is staged in November.
• This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald is published. It is a sensation, immediately establishing Fitzgerald as a writer and celebrity. Though the book's reputation will dim in later years, Dorothy Parker will recall that it was regarded as an innovative work when it first appeared.
• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is published.
• Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is published.
• D.H. Lawrence publishes Women in Love.
• Hart Crane publishes his poem My Grandmother's Love Letters in The Dial. This is his first real step towards recognition as a poet.
• Van Wyck Brooks publishes The Ordeal of Mark Twain, arguing that Twain's genius was perverted by the conditions and culture of late 19th-century America. This is the beginning of the reassessment of Mark Twain, who until this point has been regarded primarily as a humorous entertainer. The 1920s will force a reconsideration of many 19th-century writers, most importantly Melville and Dickinson.

[edit] New books

• Sherwood Anderson — Poor White
• L. Frank Baum — Glinda of Oz
• Marjorie Bowen — The Burning Glass
• Rhoda Broughton — A Fool in Her Folly
• Edgar Rice Burroughs — Tarzan the Untamed
• Agatha Christie — The Mysterious Affair at Styles (first Hercule Poirot mystery)
• Colette — Chéri
• John Dos Passos — Three Soldiers
• F. Scott Fitzgerald — This Side Of Paradise
• Robert Frost — Mountain Interval
• Zona Gale — Miss Lulu Bett
• D.H. Lawrence — Women in Love
• Sinclair Lewis — Main Street
• David Lindsay — A Voyage to Arcturus
• Hugh Lofting — The Story of Doctor Dolittle
• H.L. Mencken — Prejudices: Second Series
• E. Phillips Oppenheim — The Great Impersation
• Dowell Philip O'Reilly — Five Corners
• Sigrid Undset — The Bridal Wreath
• Mary Augusta Ward — Harvest
• Edith Wharton — The Age of Innocence
• Owen Wister — A Straight Deal
• Zara Wright — Black and White Tangled Threads

[edit] New drama

• Karel Čapek - R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
• John Galsworthy - The Skin Game

[edit] Poetry

• Robert Bridges - October and Other Poems
• T. S. Eliot - Poems (Twelve poems including “Lune de Miel” and “The Hippopotamus”)
• Robert Frost - Miscellaneous Poems
• Ezra Pound - Hugh Selwyn Mauberly
• Carl Sandburg - Smoke and Steel
• Siegfried Sassoon - Picture Show
• Edna St. Vincent Millay - A Few Figs From Thistles

[edit] Non-fiction

• Frederick Jackson Turner — The Frontier in American History
• H.G. Wells - The Outline of History

[edit] Births

• January 2 - Isaac Asimov, author (d. 1992)
• February 11 - Daniel Francis Galouye, American science fiction author (d. 1976)
• March 10 - Boris Vian, French novelist (d. 1959)
• April 5 - Arthur Hailey, novelist (d. 2004)
• July 12 - Pierre Berton, Canadian author
• August 16 - Charles Bukowski, American writer (d. 1994)
• August 22 - Ray Bradbury, American science fiction writer
• October 8 - Frank Herbert, American science fiction author
• October 15 - Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather (d. 1999)

[edit] Deaths

• March 26 - Mary Augusta Ward, author
• May 11 - William Dean Howells, writer
• June 5 - Rhoda Broughton, author

[edit] Awards

• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: D. H. Lawrence, The Lost Girl
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: G. M. Trevelyan, Lord Grey of the Reform Bill
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Knut Hamsun
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: no award given
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: No award given
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Eugene O'Neill, Beyond the Horizon