Events
- This is a significant year for high modernism in English literature:
- The modernist classic Ulysses by James Joyce is first published complete in book form by Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company in Paris on February 2 (Joyce's 40th birthday), with a further edition published in Paris for the Egoist Press of London on October 12 (much of which is seized by the United States Customs Service).
- T. S. Eliot founds The Criterion magazine (October) containing the first publication of his poem The Waste Land. This is first published complete in book form in New York in December.
- Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf is published.
- The first Newbery Medal for authors of distinguished books for children is awarded by the American Library Association.
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