Deaths
- February 7 - Norman Douglas, novelist
- February 13 - Josephine Tey, crime novelist
- February 19 - Knut Hamsun, author
- March 1 - Mariano Azuela, novelist, dramatist and critic
- May 26 - Eugene Jolas, writer, literary translator and critic
- April 1 - Ferenc Molnár, dramatist and novelist
- June 1 - John Dewey, philosopher and psychologist
- July 1 - A. S. W. Rosenbach, book collector
- August 9 - Jeffery Farnol, historical romance novelist
- August 15 - Dora Diamant, lover of Franz Kafka
- September 29 – George Santayana, writer
- October 4 - Keith Murdoch, journalist, father of Rupert Murdoch
- November 4 - Gilbert Frankau, novelist
- November 13 - Margaret Wise Brown, children's author
- November 16 - Charles Maurras, poet
- November 18 - Paul Éluard, Surrealist poet
- November 23 – Aaro Hellaakoski, Finnish poet
- December 6 - Cicely Hamilton, dramatist
- date unknown - H. J. Massingham, "ruralist" writer
- date unknown - Roger Vitrac, poet and dramatist
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“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
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