1924 in literature

The year 1924 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

 * Ford Madox Ford publishes the first book of a four-volume work titled Parade's End published between 1924 and 1928.

New books

 * Michael Arlen - The Green Hat
 * Louis Bromfield - The Green Bay Tree
 * John Buchan - The Three Hostages
 * Edgar Rice Burroughs
 * The Land That Time Forgot
 * Tarzan and the Ant Men
 * Agatha Christie
 * The Man in the Brown Suit
 * Poirot Investigates
 * Edna Ferber - So Big
 * Ford Madox Ford - Some Do Not . . .
 * Jean Forge - Saltego trans Jarmiloj
 * E. M. Forster - A Passage to India
 * Charles Boardman Hawes - The Dark Frigate
 * Margaret Kennedy - The Constant Nymph
 * Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain
 * John Masefield - Sard Harker
 * Herman Melville - Billy Budd, Sailor
 * Dmitri Merezhkovsky - Akhnaton, King of Egypt
 * George Moore -Peronnik the Fool
 * Baroness Orczy
 * The Honourable Jim
 * Pimpernel and Rosemary
 * Les Beaux et les Dandys de Grand Siècles en Angleterre
 * Eden Phillpotts - The Treasures of Typhon
 * Edith Wharton - The Old Maid
 * Walter F. White - The Fire In The Flint
 * Paul Sullivan - "Maata's Journal"
 * P. C. Wren - Beau Geste

Drama

 * Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings - What Price Glory?
 * Louis Aragon - Backs to the Wall
 * Bertolt Brecht - The Life of Edward II of England
 * Mikhail Bulgakov - The Fatal Eggs (Роковые яйца)
 * Noël Coward - The Vortex (first performed), Hay Fever (written)
 * Sean O'Casey - Juno and the Paycock
 * Nikolai Erdman - The Warrant
 * George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly - Beggar on Horseback
 * Eugene O'Neill - Desire Under the Elms
 * Sergei Tretyakov - The Gas Masks
 * Tristan Tzara - Handkerchief of Clouds
 * Roger Vitrac - The Mysteries of Love
 * Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz - The Mother

Poetry

 * Edwin James Brady - The Land of the Sun
 * Muhammad Iqbal - Bang-i-Dara
 * A. A. Milne - When We Were Very Young

Non-fiction

 * Sarah Bernhardt - The Art of the Theatre
 * Emma Goldman - My Further Disillusionment in Russia
 * Mark Twain - The Autobiography of Mark Twain

Births

 * January 30 - Lloyd Alexander, American writer (d. 2007)
 * February 3 - Andrzej Szczypiorski, writer (d. 2000)
 * February 17 - Margaret Truman, novelist, daughter of President Harry S. Truman (d. 2008)
 * May 1 - Terry Southern, American writer (d. 1995)
 * August 3 - Leon Uris, American author (d. 2003)
 * August 6 - James Baldwin, American writer (d. 1987)
 * August 17 - Evan S. Connell, American author
 * September 4 - Joan Aiken, English novelist (d. 2004)
 * September 30 - Truman Capote, American writer (d. 1984)
 * October 5 - José Donoso, Chilean writer (d. 1996)
 * October 29 - Zbigniew Herbert, Polish writer (d. 1998)
 * date missing
 * Mengistu Lemma, Ethiopian playwright (d. 1988)

Deaths

 * April 21 - Marie Corelli, British author (b. 1855)
 * May 4 - E. Nesbit, English children's author (b. 1858)
 * June 3 - Franz Kafka, German language author (b. 1883)
 * August 3 - Joseph Conrad, Polish-British author (b. 1857)
 * October 13 - Anatole France, French writer (b. 1844)
 * October 25 - Laura Jean Libbey, American novelist (b. 1862)
 * December 6 - Gene Stratton Porter, American novelist and naturalist (b. 1863)
 * December 26 - Arnold Henry Savage Landor, British writer and artist, grandson of Walter Savage Landor (b. 1865)

Awards

 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Rev. William Wilson, The House of Airlie
 * Newbery Medal for children's literature: Charles Hawes, The Dark Frigate
 * Nobel Prize for Literature: Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
 * Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Hatcher Hughes, Hell-Bent Fer Heaven
 * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Frost, New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes
 * Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Margaret Wilson, The Able McLaughlins