1925 in literature 1925 .Events February 21 – The first issue of The New Yorker magazine is published by Harold Ross . February 28 – The first story under the name B. Traven is published, in Vorwärts . April – F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway meet in the Dingo Bar, rue Delambre, in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris , after the April 10 publication of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and before Hemingway departs on a trip to Spain that he will fictionalize in The Sun Also Rises . May 14 – Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published by the Hogarth Press in Bloomsbury , London. Woolf is beginning work on To the Lighthouse . May 20 – C. S. Lewis is elected a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford , where he tutors in English language and literature until 1954. Summer – Samuel Beckett plays in the first of two first-class cricket matches, for Dublin University against Northamptonshire . July 22 – The first of Ben Travers' "Aldwych farces", A Cuckoo in the Nest , opens at London's Aldwych Theatre in a production by actor-manager Tom Walls featuring the brothers Ralph Lynn , Gordon James and Hastings Lynn. October 1 – J. R. R. Tolkien becomes Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford . December 24 – A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh story "The Wrong Sort of Bees" appears in the London Evening News . December 28 – The Russian poet Sergei Yesenin writes a farewell poem, "Goodbye, my friend, goodbye" in his own blood before hanging himself at the Angleterre Hotel , Leningrad . December – W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood meet for the first time as adults in London. unknown dates *Miss Riboet's Orion theatrical troupe is established in the Dutch East Indies . *The first complete translation of the 14th-century Romance of the Three Kingdoms from Chinese into English is published by Charles Henry Brewitt-Taylor . *Leslie Hotson publishes the first account from contemporary records of the murder of the dramatist Christopher Marlowe in 1593 , claiming to have found the evidence while researching Chaucer's The Nun's Priest's Tale in the archives of the English Public Records Office in 1923–1924. *T. S. Eliot leaves Lloyds Bank in London and joins the new publishers Faber and Gwyer , having been recommended to Geoffrey Faber by Charles Whibley . *The Modern Library is taken over by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer .New books Fiction Sherwood Anderson – Dark Laughter :fi:Sergei Auslender|Sergei Auslender – Дни боевые André Billy – L'Ange qui pleure James Boyd – Drums Louis Bromfield – Possession D. K. Broster – The Flight of the Heron Mihail Bulgakov *The Fatal Eggs *The White Guard Mary Butts – Ashe of Rings Willa Cather – The Professor's House Blaise Cendrars – Sutter's Gold Agatha Christie – The Secret of Chimneys Ivy Compton-Burnett – Pastors and Masters Warwick Deeping – Sorrell and Son Maurice Dekobra – La Madone des sleepings Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne – Hangman's House John Dos Passos – Manhattan Transfer Theodore Dreiser – An American Tragedy Lion Feuchtwanger – Jud Süß F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby Ford Madox Ford – No More Parades Konstantine Gamsakhurdia – The Smile of Dionysus David Garnett – The Sailor's Return William Gerhardie – The Polyglots André Gide – Les faux-monnayeurs Ellen Glasgow – Barren Ground Thea von Harbou – Metropolis Ernest Hemingway – In Our Time DuBose Heyward – Porgy Aldous Huxley – Those Barren Leaves Franz Kafka – The Trial Sinclair Lewis – Arrowsmith Walter Lippmann – The Phantom Public Anita Loos – Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Compton Mackenzie – Coral W. Somerset Maugham – The Painted Veil Thomas Mofolo – Chaka Eugenio Montale – Ossi di seppia Liam O'Flaherty – The Informer E. Phillips Oppenheim – Gabriel Samara, Peacemaker Baroness Orczy *The Miser of Maida Vale *A Question of Temptation William Plomer – Turbott Wolfe Marcel Proust – Albertine disparue Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo – L'Aube rouge Henry Handel Richardson – The Way Home Kate Roberts – O gors y bryniau Romain Rolland – Le Jeu de l'amour et de la mort Dorothy Scarborough – The Wind Gertrude Stein – The Making of Americans James Stevens – Paul Bunyan Sigrid Undset – The Master of Hestviken , vol. 1: The Axe Carl Van Vechten – Firecrackers. A Realistic Novel Edgar Wallace *The Blue Hand * The Fellowship of the Frog *The Mind of Mr. J. G. Reeder *The Strange Countess *The Three Just Men Hugh Walpole – Portrait of a Man with Red Hair Hugo Wast – Stone Desert H. G. Wells – Christina Alberta's Father Edith Wharton – The Mother's Recompense William Carlos Williams – In the American Grain P. G. Wodehouse – Carry On , Jeeves Virginia Woolf – Mrs Dalloway Elinor Wylie – The Venetian Glass Nephew Ernst Zahn – Frau Sixta Children and young people Elinor Brent-Dyer – The School at the Chalet A. M. Burrage – Poor Dear Esme Hugh Lofting – Doctor Dolittle's Zoo Else Ury – Nesthäkchen With White Hair Ruth Plumly Thompson – The Lost King of Oz Drama J. R. Ackerley – The Prisoners of War Arnolt Bronnen – The Bird of Youth Mikhail Bulgakov – Zoyka's Apartment Noël Coward – Hay Fever and Fallen Angels Joseph Jefferson Farjeon – Number 17 Federico García Lorca – The Billy-Club Puppets Patrick Hastings – The River Hugo von Hofmannsthal – The Tower Zora Neale Hurston – Color Struck George Kelly – Craig's Wife John Howard Lawson – Processional Ben Travers – A Cuckoo in the Nest John Van Druten – Young Woodley Franz Werfel – Juarez und Maximilian Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz – The Beelzebub Sonata Carl Zuckmayer – The Merry Vineyard Poetry T. S. Eliot – The Hollow Men F. W. Harvey – September and Other Poems Non-fiction Max Aitken – Politicians and the Press Alice Bailey – A Treatise on Cosmic Fire Edwin Burtt – The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science G. K. Chesterton – The Everlasting Man Maurice Halbwachs – La Mémoire collective Adolf Hitler – Mein Kampf Dmitry Merezhkovsky *The Birth of Gods: Tutankhamen in Crete *The Mystery of the Three: Egypt and Babylon Arthur E. Powell – The Etheric Double and Allied Phenomena Franz Roh – Nach Expressionismus – Magischer Realismus: Probleme der neuesten europäischen Malerei George Saintsbury, ed. – The Receipt Book of Mrs. Anne Blencowe Clare Sheridan – Across Europe with Satanella J. R. R. Tolkien – "The Devil's Coach Horses" Hendrik Willem van Loon – Tolerance H. G. Wells – A Year of Prophesying Anthologies Alain Locke – The New Negro Births January 7 – Gerald Durrell , Indian-born British naturalist and author January 8 – James Saunders , English dramatist January 11 – William Styron , American writer January 14 – Yukio Mishima , Japanese author and political activist January 17 – Robert Cormier , American young-adult novelist January 20 – Ernesto Cardenal , Nicaraguan Catholic priest and poet January 26 – Miep Diekmann , Dutch writer of children's literature February 18 – Jack Gilbert , American poet and educator February 20 – Alex La Guma , South African novelist and political activist February 22 *Edward Gorey, American illustrator and writer *Gerald Stern, American poet and academic March 14 – John Wain , English novelist and short-story writer March 16 – Ismith Khan , Trinidad-born novelist March 21 – Peter Brook , English theatre director March 25 – Flannery O'Connor , American author March 27 – John Bayley , Indian-born English literary critic May 25 – Rosario Castellanos , Mexican writer June 16 – Jean d'Ormesson , French writer July 26 – Ana María Matute , Spanish novelist August 12 – Donald Justice , American poet and educator August 17 – John Hawkes , American novelist August 18 – Brian Aldiss , English science fiction author and editor August 28 – Arkady Strugatsky , Russian science fiction writer September 4 – Forrest Carter , American speechwriter and author September 6 – Andrea Camilleri , Italian novelist and playwright October 1 *Christine Pullein-Thompson, English children's novelist *Diana Pullein-Thompson, English children's novelist October 3 – Gore Vidal , American writer October 8 – Andrei Sinyavsky , Russian writer and dissident October 11 – Elmore Leonard , American novelist and screenwriter October 25 – Romek Marber , Polish-born book designer October 26 – Jan Wolkers , Dutch writer and artist December 19 – Tankred Dorst , German dramatistDeaths January 4 – Elisabeth von Heyking , German novelist, travel writer and diarist January 27 – Friedrich von Hügel , Austrian theologian January 31 – George Washington Cable , American writer February 16 – Francisco Díaz-Silveira , Cuban journalist and poet March 2 – Luigj Gurakuqi , Albanian writer and politician March 26 – Hugo Bettauer , Austrian journalist and writer April 7 – Gerhard Gran , Norwegian literary historian, essayist and biographer May 12 – Amy Lowell , American poet June 6 – Pierre Louÿs , French poet July 16 – Pyotr Gnedich , Russian writer July 15 – Mary Cholmondeley , English novelist August 15 – George Barbu Știrbei , Romanian journalist, biographer and patron of the arts September 11 – Gustav Kastropp , German poet and librettist October 31 – José Ingenieros , Argentine positivist philosopher, essayist and physician October 7 – Felix Liebermann , German-Jewish historian c. November – Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald , Irish literary biographer , drama critic and sculptor December 5 – Władysław Reymont , Polish novelist, Nobel Prize winner December 28 – Sergei Yesenin, Russian poetAwards James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Liam O'Flaherty , The Informer James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Geoffrey Scott , The Portrait of Zelide 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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