Deaths
- February 19 - Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan short story writer, 58 (suicide by poisoning)
- March 15 - H. P. Lovecraft, horror writer, 46 (intestinal cancer)
- March 25 - John Drinkwater, poet and dramatist, 54
- May 20 - Frederic Taber Cooper, editor, 72
- June 13 - William F. Lloyd, newspaper editor, 72
- June 19 - J. M. Barrie, novelist and dramatist, 77
- August 11 - Edith Wharton, writer (born 1862)
- September 13 - Ellis Parker Butler, novelist, 67
- September 28 - Gerald Duckworth, publisher, 67
- October 22 - Nakahara Chuya, Japanese poet, 30 (meningitis)
- October 31 - Ralph Connor, novelist
- December 24 - Elizabeth Haldane, author, biographer, philosopher, suffragist, nursing administrator, and social welfare worker, 75
- December 26 - Ivor Gurney, war poet and composer, 47 (tuberculosis)
- December 29 - Don Marquis, poet
- date unknown
- Edward Garnett, critic
- W. F. Harvey, short story writer
- August 14 - H. C. McNeile ("Sapper"), "Bulldog Drummond" novelist, 48
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“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
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