1923 in literature


This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1923.
For works published in the United States, this year is also significant because from January 1, 2019, these were the first in 20 years to enter the public domain. They were originally to do so in 1999, but the U.S. Congress extended the length of copyright by twenty years.

Events

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Fiction


  • Dorothy Brandon – The Outsider
  • Bertolt Brecht – In the Jungle of Cities
  • Gerald du Maurier – The Dancers
  • Ian Hay – Good Luck
  • Garnet Holme – The Ramona Pageant
  • Georg Kaiser – Side by Side
  • Seán O'Casey – The Shadow of a Gunman
  • Elmer Rice – The Adding Machine
  • Arnold Ridley – The Ghost Train
  • Jules Romains – Knock
  • George Bernard Shaw – Saint Joan
  • Marie Stopes – Our Ostriches
  • Ernst Toller – Hinkemann
  • Sergei Tretyakov
  • *Do You Hear, Moscow?
  • *Earth in Turmoil
  • Sutton Vane – Outward Bound
  • Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
  • *The Crazy Locomotive
  • *Janulka, Daughter of Fizdejko
  • *The Madman and the Nun

    Poetry

  • Louise Bogan – Body of This Death: Poems
  • E. E. Cummings – Tulips and Chimneys
  • Robert Frost – New Hampshire
  • Pablo Neruda – Crepusculario
  • Sukumar Ray – Abol Tabol
  • Wallace Stevens – Harmonium
  • David Vogel – Lifney Hasha'ar Ha'afel
  • William Carlos Williams
  • *Go Go
  • *Spring and All

    Non-fiction

  • Vladimir Arsenyev – Dersu Uzala
  • Godfrey Benson, 1st Baron Charnwood – Theodore Roosevelt
  • Algernon Blackwood – Episodes Before Thirty
  • J. B. Bury – A History of the Later Roman Empire from the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian
  • E. K. Chambers – The Elizabethan Stage
  • Winston Churchill – The World Crisis
  • Le Corbusier – Toward an Architecture
  • Sigmund Freud – The Ego and the Id
  • Khalil Gibran – The Prophet
  • Robert Henri – The Art Spirit
  • Rudyard Kipling – The Irish Guards in the Great War
  • D. H. Lawrence – Studies in Classic American Literature
  • Arthur Moeller van den Bruck – Das Dritte Reich
  • Mihai Ralea – L'Idée de la révolution dans les doctrines socialistes
  • Mary Roberts Rinehart – The Out Trail
  • Max Weber – Wirtschaftsgeschichte
  • Rose Wilder Lane – The Peaks of Shala

    Births

  • January 2 – Rachel Waterhouse, English historian and author
  • January 6 – Jacobo Timerman, Argentine writer
  • January 9 – David Holbrook, English novelist, poet and academic
  • January 10 – Ingeborg Drewitz, German novelist and dramatist
  • January 16 – Anthony Hecht, American poet
  • January 29 – Paddy Chayefsky, American writer
  • January 31 – Norman Mailer, American writer and journalist
  • February 2 – James Dickey, American poet and author
  • February 9 – Brendan Behan, Irish writer and playwright
  • February 12 – Alan Dugan, American poet and author
  • March 26 – Elizabeth Jane Howard, English novelist
  • March 27
  • *Shusaku Endo, Japanese novelist
  • *Louis Simpson, Jamaican-born American poet
  • March 30 – Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright
  • April 3 – Daniel Hoffman, American poet
  • April 21 – John Mortimer, English dramatist, screenwriter and barrister
  • April 23 – Manuel Mejía Vallejo, Colombian novelist
  • May 1 – Joseph Heller, American novelist
  • May 21 – Dorothy Hewett, Australian poet, playwright and novelist
  • June 7 – Martyn Goff, English author and bookseller
  • June 14 – Judith Kerr, German-born English children's writer
  • June 24 – Yves Bonnefoy, French poet and essayist
  • July 2 – Wisława Szymborska, Polish poet and essayist
  • July 16 – Mari Evans, American poet
  • July 17 – James Purdy, American writer
  • August 21 – Emma Smith, English novelist and autobiographer
  • September 13 – Miroslav Holub, Czech poet
  • September 22 – Dannie Abse, Welsh poet and writer
  • October 5 – Stig Dagerman, Swedish author and journalist
  • October 15 – Italo Calvino, Italian writer
  • October 24 – Denise Levertov, English-born American poet
  • November 20 – Nadine Gordimer, South African writer
  • November 23 – Gloria Whelan, American poet, short story writer, and novelist
  • December 14 – Gerard Reve, Dutch novelist and poet
  • December 21 – Richard Hugo, American poet and educator
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