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Episode 32: The Roaring 20s? Hi, I’m John Green, this is Crash Course U.S. History and today we’re going to learn about one the best eras ever, the 1920s. The 20s gave us Jazz, movies, radio, making out in cars, illegal liquor. And the 20s also gave us prosperity, although not for everybody and gangsters and a consumer culture based on credit and lots of prejudice against immigrants and eventually the worst economic crisis the U.S. has seen. Mr. Green, Mr. Green, but what about Gatsby? Yeah, Me from the Past, it’s true that Gatsby turned alright in the end, but what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust trailed in the wake of his dreams did temporarily close out my interest in the aborted sorrows and short-winded elations of men. intro So there’s a stereotypical view of the 1920s as the “Roaring 20s,” a decade of exciting change and new cultural touchstones, as well as increased personal freedom and dancing. And it really was a time of increased wealth. For some people. The quote of the decade has to go to our famously taciturn president from Massachusetts, Calvin Coolidge, who said, “the chief business of the American people is business.” Jay-Z would later update this for the 21st century noting, “I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man.” But anyway during the 1920s the government helped business grow like gangbusters, largely by not regulating it much at all. This is known as “laissez-faire” capitalism. Or “laissez-faire” capitalism if you’re good at speaking French. The Republican Party dominated politics in the 1920s, with all the presidents elected in the decade being staunch conservative Republicans. The federal government hewed to the policies favored by business lobbyists, including lower taxes on personal income and business profits, and efforts to weaken the power of unions. Presidents Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover stocked the boards of the Federal Reserve and the Federal Trade Commission with men who shared their pro-business views, shifting the country away from the economic regulation that had been favored by Progressives. And that was very good for the American economy. At least in the short run. The 1920s were also marked by quite a bit of government corruption, most of which can be pinned to the administration of Warren G. Harding. Now, Harding himself wasn’t terribly corrupt, but he picked terrible friends. They included attorney general Harry Daughtery, who accepted money to not prosecute criminals, and Interior Secretary Albert Fall, who took half a million dollars from private business in exchange for leases to government oil reserves at Teapot Dome. Fall later became the first cabinet member ever to be convicted of a felony. But on the other hand: Business, man! Productivity rose dramatically, largely because older industries adopted Henry Ford’s assembly line techniques, and newer industries like aviation, chemicals, and electronics grew up to provide Americans with new products and new jobs. During the 1920s annual production of cars tripled to 4.8 million and automobile companies were gradually consolidated into the big three that we know today: Ford, Chrysler, and Harley Davidson. What? General Motors. By 1929 half of all American families owned a car. And thus began the American love affair with the automobile, which is also where love affairs were often consummated. Which is why, in the 1920, cars came to be known as “skoodilypooping chariots.” What’s that? They were called “Brothels on Wheels”? And the economy also grew because American corporations were extending their reach overseas and American foreign investment was greater than that of any other country. The dollar replaced the pound as the most important currency for trade and by the end of the decade America was producing 85% of the world’s cars and 40% of its overall manufactured goods. Stan, can I get a Libertage? Libertage And companies churned out all kinds of labor saving devices like vacuum cleaners, toasters, refrigerators. And not having to spend all day washing your clothes or turning over your own toast like some kind of commoner meant that Americans had more time for leisure. And this was provided by radios, and baseball games, boxing matches, vacations, dance crazes. I mean before Gangnam Style, there was the the Lindy and the Charleston. But probably the most significant leisure product was movies. And I’m not just saying that because I’m staring into a camera. The American film industry moved out to Hollywood before World War I because land was cheap and plentiful, all that sunshine meant that you could shoot outside all year round. And it was close to everything: desert, mountains, ocean, plastic surgeons. And by 1925 the American film industry had eclipsed all of its competitors and become the greatest in the world, especially if you count by volume and not quality. And more and more people had money to go see those movies thanks to consumer debt. The widespread use of credit and layaway buying plans meant that it was acceptable to go into debt to maintain what came to be seen as the American “standard of living” and this was a huge change in attitude. These days we don’t even think of credit cards as debt really, but they are. And that was a relatively new idea. As was another feature of American life in the 20s that is still with us: celebrity. Opera singer Enrico Caruso has often been called the first modern celebrity but now he’s a lot less famous than Charlie Chaplin, or Rudolph Valentino, or Babe Ruth. But probably the biggest celebrity of the decade was Charles Lindbergh, whose claim to fame was flying across the Atlantic Ocean by himself without stopping. Although he did use an airplane, which makes it slightly less impressive. Now Lindbergh wasn’t a truly contemporary celebrity in the sense of being famous for being famous, but he was a business more than a businessman. High culture also flourished. This was the age of the “Lost Generation” of American writers, many of whom lived and worked in Europe, but America had its own version of Paris in New York. The decade of the 1920s saw continued migration of African American people from the south to cities in the North, and Harlem became the capital of Black America. And speaking of migration, let us now migrate to the chair for the Mystery Document. The rules here are simple. I guess the author of the Mystery Document. I’m either right or I get shocked with the shock pen. Alright let’s see what we’ve got here. If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot … Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying but fight back. Stan, thank you for the poetry. I appreciate that it’s not some obscure document from 18th century blah blah blah. It’s Claude McKay, Harlem Renaissance poet, the poem is called “If We Must Die.” It’s the only thing in the world I’m actually good at. Now I know this from the imagery alone, especially the line about mad and hungry dogs that would figuratively and literally make up the mobs at the lynchings, but the giveaway here is the ultimate sentiment that “we” will fight back. This was part of the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance, which rejected stereotypes and prejudice and sought to celebrate African American experience. Meanwhile, things were changing for women as well as they found ways to express autonomy. Flappers kept their hair and skirts short, smoked and drank illegally in public and availed themselves of birth control. And marketers encouraged them to buy products like cigarettes, christened “torches of freedom” by Edward Bernays. “Liberation” had its limits, though. Most women were still expected to marry, have children, and find their freedom at home through the use of washing machines. But the picture of prosperity is, as usual, more complicated than it at first appears. The fact that so many Americans were going into debt in order to pursue the American dream meant that if the economy faltered, and it did, there was going to be lots of trouble. Let’s go to the Thought Bubble. Prosperity in the 1920s wasn’t equally distributed through the population. Real industrial wages rose by a quarter between 1922 and 1929, but corporate profits rose at twice that rate. By 1929, 1% of the nation’s banks controlled 50% of the nation’s financial resources and the wealthiest 5% of Americans’ share of national income exceeded that of the bottom 60%. An estimated 40% of Americans lived in poverty. Now, many Americans celebrated big business and Wall Street was often seen as heroic, possibly because by 1920 about 1.5 million Americans owned some kind of stock. But big business also meant that smaller businesses disappeared. During the 1920s the number of manufacturing workers declined by 5%, the first time this class of workers had seen its numbers drop, but not the last. Now, some of these jobs were made up for by new jobs in retail, finance, and education, but as early as the 1920s New England was beginning to see unemployment and deindustrialization as textile companies moved their operations to the South, where labor was cheaper. And working class people still made up the majority of Americans and they often couldn’t afford these newfangled devices. Like in 1930, 75% of American homes didn’t have a washing machine, and only 40% of them had a radio. Farmers were even worse off. Many had prospered during World War I when the government subsidized farm prices in order to keep farms producing for the war effort. But, when the subsidies ended, production didn’t subside, largely due to mechanization and increased use of fertilizer. Farmers’ incomes dropped steadily and many saw banks foreclose upon their property. For the first time in American history, the number of farms declined during the 1920s. For farmers, the Great Depression began early. Thanks, Thought Bubble. So, organized labor also took a big hit. Although some companies engaged in welfare capitalism, providing pensions, medical insurance, and greater guarantees of workplace safety, many more continued to oppose unions and their efforts to improve working conditions. They employed stri kebreakers and continued to blacklist union organizers. And coupled with the market logic that led companies to move their businesses to the low-wage south, organized labor lost more than 2 million members in the 1920s. So, in general the federal government did little to nothing to help farmers or workers. The Supreme Court was the only segment of the government that kept any progressive ideas alive, as they began to craft a system of ideas that we call the jurisprudence of civil liberties. For instance, the courts stepped back from decisions like Schenk v. U.S. That was partly down to the newly created ACLU, which through lawsuits brought new meaning to freedom of speech and eventually the right to privacy. Now, the court still voted to uphold convictions of left wing critics of the government, but gradually began to embrace the idea that people had the right to express dissonant views in what Oliver Wendell Holmes called the “marketplace of ideas.” In Near v. Minnesota the Supreme Court struck down censorship of newspapers, and by 1927, Justice Brandeis was writing “that freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think are indispensable to the discovery and spread of political truth.” But despite increased free speech and torches of liberty and flappers and the Harlem Renaissance, the 1920s was in many ways a reactionary period in American history. For instance, the decade saw the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in a new and improved form and by improved I mean much more terrible. Spurred on by the hyper-patriotism that was fostered during World War I, the Klan denounced immigrants, and Jews, and Catholics as less than 100% American. And by the mid 20s the Klan claimed more than 3 million members and was the largest private organization right here in my home state of Indiana. And with more immigrants coming from Southern and Eastern Europe – who were often Catholic and Jewish – White Protestants became more and more concerned about losing their dominant position in the social order. Spoiler alert – it turns out okay for you, white Protestants. The first immigration restriction bill was passed in 1921 limiting the number of immigrants from Europe to 357,000. In 1924 a new immigration law dropped that number to 150,000 and established quotas based on national origin. The numbers of immigrants allowed from southern and eastern Europe were drastically reduced and Asians (except for Filipinos) were totally forbidden. The quota for Filipinos was set at 50 per year although they were still allowed to emigrate to Hawaii because their labor was needed there. There were no restrictions however on immigration from the Western Hemisphere because California’s large-scale farms were dependent upon seasonal laborers from Mexico. These immigration restrictions were also influenced by fear of radical anarchists and pseudo-scientific ideas about race. Whites were seen as scientifically superior to people of color and as president Coolidge himself declared when he signed the 1924 immigration law, “America must be kept American.” Tell me, Calvin Coolidge, about how American you are. Are you Cherokee? Or Cree? Or Lakota? The 1920s also saw increased tension between science education in the United States and religious beliefs. The best known example is, of course, the trial of John Scopes in Tennessee in 1925. Scopes was tried for breaking the law against teaching evolution, which he had been encouraged to do by the ACLU as a test case for the freedom of speech. Scopes was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan, whom you will remember as having recently resigned as Secretary of State and who had become a leader of the fundamentalist movement. And Scopes was defended by Clarence Darrow, that famous defense attorney who contemporary defense attorneys always point to to argue that defense attorneys aren’t all scum. Scopes and Darrow actually lost the trial but the case drew national attention and ultimately led to evolution being taught in more American schools. The Scopes trial is often seen as a victory for free thinking, and science, and modernism, and I suppose it was, but for me it’s more a symbol of the contradictions of the 1920s. This is the decade that gave us mass consumer culture and celebrity worship, which are important and very complicated legacies. And it also saw the birth of modern conceptions of civil liberties. It was a period when tolerance became an important value, but at the same time it saw a rise in lynchings. Immigrants were necessary for the economic boom of the 1920s, but at the same time their numbers were restricted as they were seen as a threat to “traditional American values.” And that raises a question that we’re still struggling with today: what are those values? I don’t mean that rhetorically. Let me know in comments. Thanks for watching. I’ll see you next week. Crash Course is produced and directed by Stan Muller. Our script supervisor is Meredith Danko. The associate producer is Danica Johnson. The show is written by my high school history teacher, Raoul Meyer, Rosianna Rojas, and myself. And our graphics team is Thought Café. I nailed that. Every week, there’s a new caption for the libertage. You can suggest your own in comments or ask questions about today’s video that will be answered by our team of historians. Thank you for watching Crash Course. If you enjoyed today’s video, make sure you’ve subscribed. And as we say in my hometown, don’t forget to be awesome. Roaring 20s -
Events
- March – Captain W. E. Johns' character Biggles (James Bigglesworth) is introduced as an English World War I pilot in the short story "The White Fokker", in the first, April, issue of Popular Flying magazine, edited by Johns. The first Biggles collection, The Camels Are Coming, ensues in April.
- April 23 – To mark Shakespeare's birthday:
- The Royal Shakespeare Company's new theatre opens at Stratford-upon-Avon.[1]
- The Folger Shakespeare Library opens in Washington, D.C.[2]
- April 26 – The 32-year-old American poet Hart Crane, in a state of alcoholic depression, throws himself overboard from the Orizaba between Mexico and New York; his body is never recovered.[3]
- May – The first issue appears of the English journal of literary criticism Scrutiny: a quarterly review, edited by F. R. Leavis.
- June 28 – Alice Hargreaves, the inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, meets the publisher Peter Llewelyn Davies, the inspiration for Peter Pan, at a Lewis Carroll centenary exhibition in a London bookshop.[4]
- July – W. B. Yeats leases Riversdale house in the Dublin suburb of Rathfarnham and publishes Words for Music Perhaps, and Other Poems.[5]
- Summer
- The Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, is established as a regular venue in London by Sydney Carroll and Robert Atkins.
- The first performances at the Minack Theatre, an open-air venue on the coast of Cornwall (England), include The Tempest.
- October 3 – The Times newspaper of London introduces the Times New Roman typeface devised by Stanley Morison.[6]
- October – Nineteen Irish writers led by Yeats and George Bernard Shaw form an Academy of Irish Letters that opposes the Censorship of Publications Board.[7]
- November 16 – Compton Mackenzie is prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act in the U.K. for material in his Greek Memories.[8]
- December
- The issue of Weird Tales magazine with this month's cover date in the United States includes Robert E. Howard's short story "The Phoenix on the Sword", the first published appearance of Conan the Barbarian.[9]
- E. V. Knox replaces Sir Owen Seaman as editor of Punch magazine.
- Shortly after publication, the first copies of Graham Greene's novel Stamboul Train, published by Heinemann in London, are withdrawn and the text altered after a threat of libel action by J. B. Priestley.[10]
- unknown dates
- Samuel Beckett's first novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, is written in Paris and rejected by several publishers.
- Serialisation of the first three volumes of Mikhail Sholokhov's novel And Quiet Flows the Don («Тихий Дон») concludes in the Soviet magazine October.[11]
- The New Poetry (Thơ mới) period begins in Vietnamese literature, marked by an article and a poem from Phan Khôi.[12]
- Aussie: The Australian Soldiers' Magazine ceases publication.[13]
- Una Dillon founds Dillons Booksellers in London.[14]
New books
Fiction
- Laura Adams Armer – Waterless Mountain
- Henry Bellamann – The Richest Woman in Town
- E.F. Benson – Secret Lives
- Phyllis Bentley – Inheritance
- Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners (as Adela Quebec) – The Girls of Radcliff Hall (privately circulated roman à clef)
- Hermann Broch – The Sleepwalkers (Die Schlafwandler, trilogy completed)
- Lynn Brock – Nightmare
- John Buchan – The Gap in the Curtain
- Pearl S. Buck – Sons
- Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan Triumphant
- Erskine Caldwell – Tobacco Road
- Morley Callaghan – A Broken Journey
- John Dickson Carr
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline – Journey to the End of the Night (Voyage au bout de la nuit)
- Agatha Christie
- Colette – The Pure and the Impure (Le Pur et l'impur)
- J.J. Connington – The Castleford Conundrum
- John Creasey – Seven Times Seven
- Freeman Wills Crofts
- A. J. Cronin – Three Loves
- Clemence Dane – Re-enter Sir John
- Catherine Isabella Dodd – Paul and Perdita[15]
- John Dos Passos – 1919
- Hans Fallada – Little Man, What Now? (Kleiner Mann, was nun?)
- Joseph Jefferson Farjeon – The Z Murders
- William Faulkner – Light in August[16]
- Lion Feuchtwanger – Josephus
- Rudolph Fisher – The Conjure Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem
- Elena Fortún – Celia en el colegio
- Gilbert Frankau – Christopher Strong
- Lewis Grassic Gibbon – Sunset Song
- Stella Gibbons – Cold Comfort Farm
- Anthony Gilbert
- Jean Giono – Blue Boy
- Ellen Glasgow – The Sheltered Life
- Graham Greene – Stamboul Train
- Ernst Haffner – Blood Brothers (Blutsbrüder)
- Hermann Hesse – Journey to the East (Die Morgenlandfahrt)
- James Hilton – Rage in Heaven
- Pamela Hinkson – The Ladies' Road
- Soeman Hs – Mentjahari Pentjoeri Anak Perawan
- Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
- Francis Iles (Anthony Berkeley Cox) – Before the Fact
- Margaret Kennedy – A Long Time Ago
- Irmgard Keun – The Artificial Silk Girl (Das kunstseidene Mädchen)
- Marie Belloc Lowndes – Jenny Newstead
- W. Somerset Maugham – The Narrow Corner
- Gladys Mitchell – The Saltmarsh Murders
- Nancy Mitford – Christmas Pudding
- Abdul Muis – Pertemuan Jodoh
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Beverley Nichols – Evensong
- Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall – Mutiny on the Bounty
- Max Nomad – Rebels and Renegades[18]
- Seán Ó Faoláin – Midsummer Night Madness and Other Stories
- E. Phillips Oppenheim – The Ostrekoff Jewels
- Edith Philips – The Good Quaker in French Legend
- Anthony Powell – Venusberg
- John Cowper Powys – A Glastonbury Romance
- Ellery Queen
- Sax Rohmer – The Mask of Fu Manchu
- Joseph Roth – Radetzky March (Radetzkymarsch)
- Damon Runyon – Guys and Dolls
- Rafael Sabatini – The Black Swan
- Dorothy L. Sayers – Have His Carcase
- Nevil Shute – Lonely Road
- Israel Joshua Singer – Yoshe Kalb
- J. Slauerhoff – Het verboden rijk (The Forbidden Kingdom, serial publication concludes and first book publication)
- Eleanor Smith – Ballerina
- Thorne Smith – Topper Takes a Trip
- Lesbia Soravilla – El dolor de-vivir
- John Steinbeck – The Pastures of Heaven
- Julia Strachey – Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
- Cecil Street – Dead Men at the Folly
- Thomas Sigismund Stribling – The Store
- Margareta Suber – Charlie
- Phoebe Atwood Taylor – Death Lights a Candle
- Wallace Thurman – Infants Of The Spring
- G. E. Trevelyan – Appius and Virginia
- Sigrid Undset
- Burning Bush
- The Son Avenger
- Maxence Van Der Meersch – The House on the Dune
- Henry Wade – The Hanging Captain
- Hugh Walpole – The Fortress
- Evelyn Waugh – Black Mischief[19]
- Ethel Lina White – Fear Stalks the Village
- Charles Williams – The Greater Trumps
- S. Fowler Wright
- Beyond the Rim
- The New Gods Lead (short stories)
- Francis Brett Young – The House Under the Water
Children and young people
- Laura Adams Armer – Waterless Mountain
- W. E. Johns – The Camels Are Coming
- Erich Kästner – The 35th of May, or Conrad's Ride to the South Seas (Der 35. Mai)
- Arthur Ransome – Peter Duck
- Alison Uttley – Moonshine and Magic
- Laura Ingalls Wilder – Little House in the Big Woods
- Ruth Plumly Thompson – The Purple Prince of Oz (26th in the Oz series overall and the 12th written by her)
Drama
- S. N. Behrman – Biography
- Elias Canetti – Hochzeit (Wedding)
- Noël Coward – Design for Living (premiered 1933)
- Walter C. Hackett – Road House
- Ian Hay – Orders Are Orders
- Anthony Kimmins – While Parents Sleep
- Edward Knoblock – Evensong
- Ferdinand Kwasi Fiawoo – Toko Atolia
- George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber – Dinner at Eight
- W. Somerset Maugham – For Services Rendered
- Harrison Owen – Doctor Pygmalion
- Ahmed Shawqi – Amirat el-Andalus (The Andalusian Princess)
- John Van Druten
- Ödön von Horváth – Kasimir und Karoline
Poetry
- W. H. Auden – The Orators
- Hart Crane – The Broken Tower
- Cecil Day-Lewis – From Feathers To Iron[20]
- An "Objectivist's" Anthology
- Boris Pasternak – The Second Birth
Non-fiction
- Adrian Bell – The Cherry Tree
- Henri Bergson – The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (Les deux sources de la morale et de la religion)
- Emil Brunner – The Divine Imperative: a study in Christian ethics (Gebot und die Ordnungen)
- F. J. Harvey Darton – The Story of English Children's Books in England: Five Centuries of Social Life
- Bernard DeVoto – Mark Twain's America
- T. S. Eliot – Selected Essays, 1917-1932
- Constantin Gane – Trecute vieți de doamne și domnițe (Bygone Lives of Queens and Princesses; first volume)
- J. B. S. Haldane – The Causes of Evolution
- Annabel Jackson – A Victorian Childhood
- Kepelino (died c. 1878) – Kepelino's Traditions of Hawaii (translation of Moolelo Hawaii, 1868)
- Hugh Kingsmill – Frank Harris
- F. R. Leavis – New Bearings in English Poetry
- Q. D. Leavis – Fiction and the Reading Public
- Maxwell House Haggadah
- Beverley Nichols – Down the Garden Path
- Walter B. Pitkin – Life Begins at Forty
- Stith Thompson – Motif-Index of Folk-Literature (begins publication)
- E. C. Titchmarsh – The Theory of Functions
- Florence White – Good Things in England (food)
- S. Fowler Wright – The Life of Sir Walter Scott
Births
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- January 2 – Jean Little, Canadian children's fiction author (died 2020)[21]
- January 5 – Umberto Eco, Italian novelist and semiotician (died 2016)
- January 18 – Robert Anton Wilson, American novelist and playwright (died 2007)
- January 19 – George MacBeth, Scottish poet and novelist (died 1992)
- February 7 – Gay Talese, American literary journalist
- February 15 – Troy Kennedy Martin, Scottish scriptwriter (died 2009)
- February 16 – Aharon Appelfeld, Israeli novelist and poet (died 2018)
- February 20 – Adrian Cristobal, Filipino journalist, playwright and author (died 2007)[22]
- March 4 – Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist, traveller, poet and writer (died 2007)
- March 18 – John Updike, American novelist and poet (died 2009)[23]
- March 31 – John Jakes, American historical novelist (died 2023)
- 8 April – Joan Lingard, Scottish writer (died 2022)[24]
- April 10 – Adrian Henri, English poet (died 2000)
- May 7 – Jenny Joseph, English poet (died 2018)[25]
- May 8 – Julieta Campos, Cuban-Mexican author and translator (died 2007)
- May 24 – Arnold Wesker, English dramatist (died 2016)
- June 5 – Christy Brown, Irish autobiographer and poet (died 1981)
- June 6 – Sara Banerji, English author and sculptor
- June 18 – Geoffrey Hill, English poet (died 2016)
- July 17 – Karla Kuskin, American children's writer and illustrator (died 2009)
- July 18 – Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet and writer (died 2017)
- August 16 – Christopher Okigbo, Nigerian poet (died 1967)
- August 17 – V. S. Naipaul, Trinidad-born novelist (died 2018)[26]
- August 27 – Antonia Fraser, English biographer, novelist and historian[27]
- September 7 – Malcolm Bradbury, English novelist (died 2000)[28]
- September 9 – Alice Thomas Ellis, English novelist, essayist and cookery book author (died 2005)
- October 24 – Adrian Mitchell, English poet, playwright and fiction writer (died 2008)
- October 27 – Sylvia Plath, American poet (suicide 1963)[29]
- October 31 – Katherine Paterson, Chinese-American author[30]
Deaths
- January 6 – Iacob Negruzzi, Romanian poet, columnist and memoirist (born 1842)
- January 12 – Ella Hepworth Dixon, English writer, novelist and editor (born 1857)
- January 21 – Lytton Strachey, English biographer (cancer, born 1880)[31]
- January 28 – F. M. Mayor, English novelist (born 1872)
- February 4 – Mona Caird, English novelist, essayist and feminist (born 1854)
- February 10 – Edgar Wallace, English crime writer (diabetes, born 1875)
- February 15 – Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress and playwright (born 1865)
- March 16 – Harold Monro, British poet and poetry bookshop proprietor (alcohol-related, born 1879)
- April 20 – Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician and philosopher (born 1858)
- April 22 – Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian, writer and irredenta (born 1883)
- April 23
- Evelyn Everett-Green, English novelist and children's writer (born 1856)
- Laura Kieler, Norwegian novelist and dramatic inspiration (born 1849)
- April 27 – Hart Crane, American poet (suicide, born 1899)[32]
- May 22 – Augusta, Lady Gregory, Irish dramatist (born 1852)
- June 17 – Sir John Quick, Australian politician and author (born 1852)
- July 6 – Kenneth Grahame, Scottish-born children's and short-story writer (born 1859)
- July 20 – René Bazin, French novelist (born 1853)
- July 22 – J. Meade Falkner, English novelist and poet (born 1858)
- July 23 – Emma Pow Bauder, American novelist, evangelist, missionary, and reformer (born 1848)
- August 29 – Raymond Knister, Canadian writer (drowned, born 1899)
- August 30 – Emma Wolf, American novelist (born 1865)[33]
- September 5 – Paul Bern, German-American screenwriter (suicide, born 1889)
- September 24 – Rose Combe, French writer and railway worker (born 1883)[34]
- October 5 – Christopher Brennan, Australian poet (born 1870)
- October 14 – Ahmed Shawqi, Egyptian poet (born 1868)
- November 11 – Georgina Fraser Newhall, Canadian author (b. 1860)
- November 13 – Catherine Isabella Dodd, English education writer and novelist (born 1860)
- November 15 – Charles W. Chesnutt, American writer (born 1858)[35]
- November 23 – Henry S. Whitehead, American genre novelist (gastric ailment, born 1882)[36]
- date unknown — Hester M. Poole, American writer, poet, art critic (born 1833/34)
Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Helen de Guerry Simpson, Boomerang
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Stephen Gwynn, The Life of Mary Kingsley
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Laura Adams Armer, Waterless Mountain
- Nobel Prize in literature: John Galsworthy
- Prix Goncourt: Guy Mazeline, Les Loups[37]
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Ira Gershwin, Of Thee I Sing
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: George Dillon, The Flowering Stone
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth
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