See also: 1921 in literature, other events of 1922, 1923 in literature, list of years in literature.

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

• First Newbery Medal awarded to authors of distinguished books for children.
• T. S. Eliot founds Criterion magazine.
• Ulysses by James Joyce is published.

New Books

• Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
• The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Captain Blood - Rafael Sabatini
• The Cross - Sigrid Undset
• The Enchanted April - Elizabeth Von Arnim
• The Enormous Room - E. E. Cummings
• The Golden Bough - James George Frazer
• The Hairy Ape - Eugene O'Neill
• Just William - Richmal Crompton
• Kai Lung's Golden Hours - Ernest Bramah
• La Maison de Claudine - Colette
• Life and Death of Harriett Frean - Flora Mayor
• The Naked Year - Boris Pilnyak
• On a Chinese Screen - W. Somerset Maugham
• One of Ours - Willa Cather
• Peter Whiffle - Carl Van Vechten
• Public Opinion - Walter Lippmann
• Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
• The Story of Mankind - Hendrik Willem van Loon
• Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Ulysses - James Joyce
• The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot

Births

• February 18 - Helen Gurley Brown, editor, publisher
• April 16 - Kingsley Amis, novelist
• May 30 - Hal Clement, science fiction writer
• September 12 - Jackson Mac Low, poet

Deaths

• September 10 - Wilfred S. Blunt, poet
• November 18 - Marcel Proust, author

Awards

• Hawthornden Prize for poetry: Edmund Blunden
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Hendrik Willem van Loon, The Story of Mankind
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Jacinto Benavente
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Eugene O'Neill, Anna Christie
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson: Collected Poems
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel : Booth Tarkington - Alice Adams