Deaths
- January 28 - William Butler Yeats, poet (born 1865)
- February 18 - Okamoto Kanoko, tanka poet
- February 22 - Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (born 1875)
- March 7 - Ludwig Fulda, German poet and playwright (born 1862)
- March 23 - Richard Halliburton, travel writer
- April 11 - S. S. Van Dine, crime fiction writer (born 1888)
- May 23 - Margarete Böhme, German novelist
- May 27 - Joseph Roth, novelist
- June 26 - Ford Madox Ford, novelist (born 1873)
- July 8 - Havelock Ellis, sexual psychologist and controversial writer (born 1859)
- September - Ethel M. Dell, romantic novelist
- September 6 - Arthur Rackham, book illustrator
- October 23 - Zane Grey, popular author of westerns (born 1872)
- December 2 - Llewelyn Powys, biographer and autobiographer
- unknown date - Solomon Cleaver, storyteller and novelist
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