See also: 1924 in literature, other events of 1925, 1926 in literature, list of years in literature. See also: 1923 in literature, other events of 1924, 1925 in literature, list of years in literature. ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... See also: 1925 in literature, other events of 1926, 1927 in literature, list of years in literature. ... This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. ...

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.
• 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.
• The Modern Library is taken over by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer.

F.Scott Fitzgerald, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896-December 21, 1940), was a Jazz Age novelist. ... Ernest Hemingway, 1950 Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist and short story writer whose works, drawn from his wide range of experiences in World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II, are characterized by terse minimalism and understatement; they exerted... The Montparnasse Tower, which at 209m was the tallest building in Western Europe when it was built. ... The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... The cover of the Scribner Paperback Fiction Edition, 1995. ... The Sun Also Rises is the first significant novel by Ernest Hemingway, first published in 1926, following a group of expatriate Americans in Europe during the 1920s. ... Ford Madox Ford (December 17, 1873 - June 26, 1939) was an English novelist and publisher. ... Parades End is a tetralogy (four related novels) by Ford Madox Ford published between 1924 and 1928. ... The Modern Library, a current division of Random House publishers, was founded in 1917 by Albert Boni and Horace Liveright. ... Bennett Cerf photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1932 Bennett Alfred Cerf (May 25, 1898 - August 27, 1971) was a Jewish-American publisher and founder of Random House, also known for his own compilations of jokes and puns, for regular personal appearances lecturing across the United States, and for his television...

New books

• An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
• Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis
• The Axe - Sigrid Undset
• Barren Ground - Ellen Glasgow
• Carry On, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
• The Counterfeiters - André Gide
• Dark Laughter - Sherwood Anderson
• Drums - James Boyd
• The Emigrants - Johan Bojer
• The Game of Love and Death - Romain Rolland
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Anita Loos
• The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
• Hangman's House - Donn Byrne
• In Our Time - Ernest Hemingway
• In the American Grain - William Carlos Williams
• The Informer - Liam O'Flaherty
• L'Ange qui pleure - André Billy
• Manhattan Transfer - John Dos Passos
• Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler
• No More Parades - Ford Maddox Ford
• The Painted Veil - W. Somerset Maugham
• Pastors and Masters - Ivy Compton-Burnett
• Paul Bunyan - James Stevens
• The Phantom Public - Walter Lippmann
• Politicians and the Press - Max Aitken
• Possession - Louis Bromfield
• Power - Lion Feuchtwanger
• The Prince of Washington Square - Harry F. Liscomb
• The Professor's House - Willa Cather
• The Sailor's Return - David Garnett
• Sorrell and Son - Warwick Deeping
• Stone Desert - Hugo Wast
• Sutter's Gold - Blaise Cendrars
• Tales from Silver Lands - Charles Finger
• The Trial - Franz Kafka
• The Venetian Glass Nephew - Elinor Wylie
• The White Guard - Mihail Bulgakov

An American Tragedy is a famous American novel, by Theodore Dreiser. ... Theodore Dreiser, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1933 Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American naturalist author known for dealing with the gritty reality of life. ... Arrowsmith is a novel by American author and and playwright Sinclair Lewis that was published in 1925. ... Sinclair Lewis Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist and playwright. ... The Stanford Axe is granted custody to the winner of the annual Big Game of American football between the University of California, Berkeley (Cal) and Stanford University. ... Sigrid Undset as photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1927. ... Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 - November 21, 1945) was an American novelist from Richmond, Virginia. ... Carry on, Jeeves is a collection of ten short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. ... P. G. Wodehouse, pictured in 1904, became famous for his complex plots, ingenious wordplay, and prolific output Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (October 15, 1881 – February 14, 1975) (pronounced as WOOD-house) was an English comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. ... André Paul Guillaume Gide (November 22, 1869 – February 19, 1951) was a French author and, at times, a spokesman for gay rights (disputed — see talk page). ... Image:Sayoung. ... The Emigrants, or Utvandrarna, is a 1971 film which tells the story of a Swedish couple who emigrate to 19th century America. ... Johan Bojer was a Norwegian author. ... Romain Rolland (January 29, 1866 - December 30, 1944) was a French writer. ... Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a novel written by Anita Loos that was published in 1925, a Broadway play produced in 1926, a Broadway musical produced in 1949, which Loos also wrote the book for, and two motion pictures. ... Anita Loos (April 26, 1889 – August 18, 1981) was an acclaimed American screenwriter, playwright and author. ... The cover of the Scribner Paperback Fiction Edition, 1995. ... F.Scott Fitzgerald, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896-December 21, 1940), was a Jazz Age novelist. ... In Our Time is a collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway. ... Ernest Hemingway, 1950 Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist and short story writer whose works, drawn from his wide range of experiences in World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II, are characterized by terse minimalism and understatement; they exerted... William Carlos Williams Dr. William Carlos Williams (sometimes known as WCW) (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963), was an American poet closely associated with Modernism. ... Liam OFlaherty (August 28, 1896 - September 7, 1984) was a significant Irish novelist and short story writer and a major figure in the Irish Renaissance. ... John Roderigo Dos Passos, born January 14, 1896, in Chicago, Illinois, United States - died September 28, 1970, in Baltimore, Maryland, was a novelist and artist. ... Cover of Mein Kampf Mein Kampf (German for My Struggle) is a book written by Adolf Hitler, combining elements of autobiography with an exposition of Hitlers political ideology of Nazism. ... â–¶ (help· info) (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 and Führer (Leader) of Germany from 1934 to his death by suicide. ... Ford Madox Ford (December 17, 1873 - June 26, 1939) was an English novelist and publisher. ... W. Somerset Maugham as photographed in 1934 by Carl Van Vechten. ... Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett D.B.E. (1884 – August 27, 1969) was an English novelist. ... Paul and Babe in Bemidji, Minnesota Paul Bunyan is a mythical lumberjack in tall tales. ... Cover of Time Magazine, March 30, 1930 Walter Lippmann (September 23, 1889 - December 14, 1974), was an influential United States writer, journalist, and political commentator. ... Sir William Maxwell Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (May 25, 1879 - June 9, 1964) was a Canadian–British business tycoon and politician. ... Louis Bromfield, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1933 Louis Bromfield (December 27, 1896 – March 18, 1956) is one of Mansfield, Ohios most famous natives, a man who became internationally renowned both as a prize-winning author and as an innovative conservationist and scientific farmer. ... Lion Feuchtwanger (pseudonym: J.L. Wetcheek) (7 July 1884 - 21 December 1958) was a German-Jewish novelist who was imprisoned in a French internment camp in Les Milles and later escaped to Los Angeles with the help of his wife, Marta. ... Willa Cather photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1936 Willa Siebert Cather (December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) is among the most eminent female American authors. ... This page is not about David S. Garnett, the science fiction writer David Garnett (1892 – 1981) was a British writer and publisher, and a prominent member of the Bloomsbury group. ... Sorrell and Son was a silent film released on December 2, 1927 and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director in the 1st Academy Awards the following year. ... George Warwick Deeping (May 28, 1877 - April 20, 1950) was a prolific English novelist and short story writer. ... Frédéric Louis Sauser (September 1, 1887 - January 21, 1961), better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss novelist and poet. ... Tales from Silver Lands is a book by Charles Finger that won the Newbery Medal in 1925. ... The Trial book cover The Trial (German Der Prozess) is a surreal novel by Franz Kafka about a character named Joseph K., who awakens one morning and, for reasons never revealed, is arrested and subjected to the rigours of the judicial process for an unspecified crime. ... -1... Elinor (Hoyt) Wylie (September 7, 1885 – December 16, 1928) was an American poet and novelist who was popular before World War II. She was a contemporary of Edna St. ... The White Guard (Russian: Белая гвардия) is a novel by 20th century Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, famed for his critically-acclaimed later work The Master and Margarita. ... Mikhail Bulgakov Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov (or Bulhakov, Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков; May 15 (May 3 Old Style), 1891–March 10, 1940) was a Soviet novelist and playwright of the first half of the 20th century. ...

New drama

• Noel Coward - Hay Fever

Noël Coward Sir Noel Peirce Coward (spelling his forename Noël with the diaeresis was an affectation of later life, and Peirce is the correct spelling) (December 16, 1899 – March 26, 1973) was an English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music. ... Pollen grains from a variety of common plants can cause hay fever. ...

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

January 8 is the 8th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... William Styron is an American novelist, born in Newport News, Virginia on June 11, 1925. ... January 14 is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Yukio Mishima (三島由紀夫 Mishima Yukio), was the public name of Kimitake Hiraoka (平岡公威 Hiraoka Kimitake), (January 14, 1925 - November 25, 1970), a Japanese author and considered a right-wing political activist, notable for both his nihilistic post-war writing and the circumstances of his suicide. ... An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ... In politics, right-wing, the political right, or simply the right, are terms which refer, with no particular precision, to the segment of the political spectrum in opposition to left-wing politics. ... February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Edward St. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... March 25 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (85th in leap years). ... Mary Flannery OConnor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) was an American author. ... For the Nintendo 64 emulator, see 1964 (Emulator). ... September 4 is the 247th day of the year (248th in leap years). ... Forrest Carter, (September 4, 1925 – June 7, 1979) was the pseudonym of Asa Earl Carter, an American novelist. ...

Deaths

• George Washington Cable - American writer
• May 12 - Amy Lowell, poet
• July 15 – Mary Cholmondeley, English writer
• December 27 – Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet

George Washington Cable (12 October 1844 - 31 January 1925) was a novelist notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native Louisiana. ... May 12 is the 132nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (133rd in leap years). ... Amy Lowell Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school, who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... July 15 is the 196th day (197th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 169 days remaining. ... Mary Cholmondeley (Hodnet, Shropshire, England June 8, 1859 – July 15, 1925) was an English writer. ... December 27 is the 361st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Sergei Yesenin Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin, sometimes spelled Esenin (Russian: Сергей Александрович Есенин; October 3, 1895 – December 28, 1925) was a famous Russian lyrical 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