The year 1922 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Under the current U.S. copyright law, all works published before January 1, 1923 with a proper copyright notice entered the public domain no later than 75 years from the date of the copyright. Hence books published in 1922 or earlier are now in the public domain.
Events
New books
New drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
- February 6 - Denis Norden, comedy writer
- February 18 - Helen Gurley Brown, editor, publisher
- March 12 - Jack Kerouac, On the Road author
- April 13 - John Braine, novelist
- April 16 - Kingsley Amis, novelist
- April 28 - Alistair MacLean, novelist
- May 6 - Alan Ross, poet and editor
- May 30 - Hal Clement, science fiction writer
- June 11 - Erving Goffman, sociologist
- July 12 - Michael Ventris, translator
- August 9 - Philip Larkin, poet
- August 18 - Alain Robbe-Grillet, novelist
- September 12 - Jackson Mac Low, poet
- November 11 - Kurt Vonnegut, novelist
- date unknown - Dick King-Smith, children's author
- date unknown - Vernon Scannell, poet
Deaths
- January 12 - Thomas Gibson Bowles, founder of The Lady and Vanity Fair
- January 27 - Nellie Bly, journalist
- February 3 - John Butler Yeats, poet
- June 12 - Wolfgang Kapp, journalist
- July 8 - Mori Ōgai, novelist and poet
- August 14 - Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, newspaper proprietor
- August 29 - Georges Sorel, philosopher
- September 2 - Henry Lawson, poet
- September 10 - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, poet
- October 30 - Géza Gárdonyi, historical novelist
- November 18 - Marcel Proust, author
- November 24 - Robert Erskine Childers, historian and novelist
- November 27 - Alice Meynell, poet
- December 13 - Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic poet and prime minister
- date unknown
Awards
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