1925 in literature
See also: 1924 in literature, other events of 1925, 1926 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events April: F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway meet in the Dingo Bar on rue Delambre, in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France shortly after the publication of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and shortly before Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises is to be published.The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald is published. Ford Madox Ford publishes No More Parades. It is the second book of a four-volume work titled Parade's End published between 1924 and 1928.An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser is published. The Modern Library is taken over by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer.
New booksAn American Tragedy - Theodore DreiserArrowsmith - Sinclair LewisThe Axe - Sigrid Undset Barren Ground - Ellen GlasgowCarry On, Jeeves - P. G. WodehouseThe Counterfeiters - André GideDark Laughter - Sherwood AndersonDemian - Hermann HesseDrums - James BoydThe Emigrants - Johan BojerThe Game of Love and Death - Romain RollandGentlemen Prefer Blondes - Anita LoosThe Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald Hangman's House - Donn ByrneIn Our Time - Ernest HemingwayIn the American Grain - William Carlos Williams The Informer - Liam O'FlahertyL'Ange qui pleure - André Billy Manhattan Transfer - John Dos PassosMein Kampf - Adolf HitlerNo More Parades - Ford Maddox Ford The Painted Veil - W. Somerset Maugham Pastors and Masters - Ivy Compton-BurnettPaul Bunyan - James StevensThe Phantom Public - Walter Lippmann Politicians and the Press - Max AitkenPossession - Louis BromfieldPower - Lion FeuchtwangerThe Prince of Washington Square - Harry F. LiscombThe Professor's House - Willa CatherThe Sailor's Return - David GarnettSorrell and Son - Warwick DeepingStone Desert - Hugo WastSutter's Gold - Blaise CendrarsTales from Silver Lands - Charles FingerThe Trial - Franz KafkaThe Venetian Glass Nephew - Elinor WylieThe White Guard - Mihail Bulgakov
Births January 8 - James Saunders, dramatist January 11 - William Styron, writer January 14 - Yukio Mishima, Japanese author and rightist political activist February 25 - Edward Gorey, illustrator (+ 2000) March 25 - Flannery O'Connor, (+ 1964) September 4 - Forrest Carter, author
Deaths George Washington Cable - American writer May 12 - Amy Lowell, poet July 15 – Mary Cholmondeley, English writer December 27 – Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet
Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: Charles Finger, Tales from Silver Lands Nobel Prize for Literature: George Bernard Shaw Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Sidney Howard, They Knew What They Wanted Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Man Who Died Twice Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Edna Ferber, So Big
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