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- February 21 – The first issue of The New Yorker magazine is published by Harold Ross.[1]
- February 28 – The first story under the name B. Traven (identified variously as actor Ret Marut or Otto Feige) is published, in Vorwärts (Berlin).
- April – F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway meet in the Dingo Bar, rue Delambre, in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, after the April 10 publication of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (by Charles Scribner's Sons in New York City) and before Hemingway departs on a trip to Spain that he will fictionalize in The Sun Also Rises (1926).
- May 14 – Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published by the Hogarth Press in Bloomsbury, London.[2] Woolf is beginning work on To the Lighthouse.
- May 20 – C. S. Lewis is elected a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he tutors in English language and literature until 1954.[3]
- Summer – Samuel Beckett plays in the first of two first-class cricket matches, for Dublin University against Northamptonshire.
- July 22 – The first of Ben Travers' "Aldwych farces", A Cuckoo in the Nest, opens at London's Aldwych Theatre in a production by actor-manager Tom Walls featuring the brothers Ralph Lynn, Gordon James and Hastings Lynn.[4]
- October 1 – J. R. R. Tolkien becomes Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford.
- December 24 – A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh story "The Wrong Sort of Bees" appears in the London Evening News.
- December 28 – The Russian poet Sergei Yesenin (born 1895) writes a farewell poem, "Goodbye, my friend, goodbye" (До свиданья, друг мой, до свиданья) in his own blood before hanging himself at the Angleterre Hotel, Leningrad.
- December – W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood meet for the first time as adults in London.[5]
- unknown dates
Children and young people
- January 7 – Gerald Durrell, Indian-born British naturalist and author (died 1995)[17]
- January 8 – James Saunders, English dramatist (died 2004)
- January 9 – Abdelhamid ben Hadouga, Algerian writer (died 1996)
- January 11 – William Styron, American writer (died 2006)
- January 14 – Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫, Kimitake Hiraoka), Japanese author and political activist (died 1970)[18]
- January 17 – Robert Cormier, American young-adult novelist (died 2000)
- January 20 – Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan Catholic priest and poet (died 2020)
- January 26 – Miep Diekmann, Dutch writer of children's literature (died 2017)
- February 18
- February 20 – Alex La Guma, South African novelist and political activist (died 1985)
- February 22
- March 6 – Peter Whigham, English poet and translator (died 1987)
- March 8 – Marta Lynch, Argentinian writer (died 1985)
- March 14 – John Wain, English novelist and short-story writer (died 1994)
- March 16 – Ismith Khan, Trinidad-born novelist (died 2002)
- March 21 – Peter Brook, English theatre director (died 2022)
- March 25 – Flannery O'Connor, American author (died 1964)
- March 27 – John Bayley, Indian-born English literary critic (died 2015)
- April 25 – Janete Clair, Brazilian television, radio play and novel writer (died 1983)
- May 1 – Mãe Stella de Oxóssi, Brazilian Ialorixá and writer (died 2018)
- May 4 – Beryl Te Wiata, New Zealand actor, author and scriptwriter (died 2017)[20]
- May 25 – Rosario Castellanos, Mexican writer (died 1974)
- June 10 – Nat Hentoff, American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic and syndicated columnist (died 2017)
- June 11 – William Styron, American writer (died 2006)[21]
- June 15 – Attilâ İlhan, Turkish poet, novelist, essayist, journalist and reviewer (died 2005)
- June 16 – Jean d'Ormesson, French writer (died 2017)
- June 17 – Luce d'Eramo, Italian writer and literary critic (died 2001)
- June 25 – John Briley, American writer (d. 2019)[22]
- July 4 – Ciril Zlobec, Slovene poet, writer, translator, journalist and politician (died 2018)[23]
- July 5 – Jean Raspail, French writer (died 2020)
- July 13 – Huang Zongying, Chinese actress and writer (died 2020)
- July 19 – Jean-Pierre Faye, French philosopher, poet and writer
- July 26 – Ana María Matute, Spanish novelist (died 2014)[24]
- August 1 – Pam Gems, born Iris Pamela Price, English playwright (died 2011)
- August 12
- August 17 – John Hawkes, American novelist (died 1998)
- August 18 – Brian Aldiss, English science fiction author and editor (died 2017)
- August 25 – Thea Astley, Australian writer (died 2004)
- August 28
- September 4 – Forrest Carter, American speechwriter and author (died 1979)
- September 6 – Andrea Camilleri, Italian novelist and playwright (died 2019)[25]
- October 1
- October 1 – Abraham Louis Schneiders, Dutch writer and diplomat (died 2020)
- October 3 – Gore Vidal, American writer (died 2012)
- October 8 – Andrei Sinyavsky, Russian writer and dissident (died 1997)
- October 11 – Elmore Leonard, American novelist and screenwriter (died 2013)
- October 25 – Romek Marber, Polish-born book designer (died 2020)[26]
- October 26 – Jan Wolkers, Dutch writer and artist (died 2007)
- October 29 – Dominick Dunne, American writer, investigative journalist and producer (died 2009)[27]
- December 19 – Tankred Dorst, German dramatist (died 2017)[28]
- January 4 – Elisabeth von Heyking, German novelist, travel writer and diarist (born 1861)[29]
- January 27 – Friedrich von Hügel, Austrian theologian (born 1852)[30]
- January 31 – George Washington Cable, American writer (born 1844)[31]
- February 16 – Francisco Díaz-Silveira, Cuban journalist and poet (born 1871)
- March 2 – Luigj Gurakuqi, Albanian writer and politician (born 1879)
- March 26 – Hugo Bettauer, Austrian journalist and writer (born 1872)[32]
- April 7 – Gerhard Gran, Norwegian literary historian, essayist and biographer (born 1856)
- April 8 – Emma Curtis Hopkins, American spiritual writer (born 1849)
- May 2 – Antun Branko Šimić, Croatian poet (born 1898)[33]
- May 12 – Amy Lowell, American poet (born 1874)[34]
- May 14 – H. Rider Haggard, British adventure novelist (b. 1856)[35]
- June 6 – Pierre Louÿs, French poet (born 1870)
- July 13 – Margaret Dye Ellis, American social reformer, lobbyist, and correspondent (born 1845)
- July 15 – Mary Cholmondeley, English novelist (born 1859)
- July 16 – Pyotr Gnedich, Russian writer (born 1855)
- August 15 – George Barbu Știrbei, Romanian journalist, biographer and patron of the arts (born 1828)
- September 11 – Gustav Kastropp, German poet and librettist (born 1844)[36]
- October 31 – José Ingenieros, Argentine positivist philosopher, essayist and physician (born 1877)
- October 7 – Felix Liebermann, German-Jewish historian (born 1851)
- October 27 – Darrell Figgis, Irish-born writer and politician, suicide (born 1882)
- c. November – Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald, Irish literary biographer, drama critic and sculptor (born 1834)
- December 5 – Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize winner (born 1867)[37]
- December 15 – Emma B. Alrich, American journalist, author, and educator (born 1845)
- December 28 – Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (born 1895)[38]
"Aldwych Theatre". The Times. London. 1925-07-23. p. 12.
Kavanagh, Peter (1950). The Story of the Abbey Theatre. New York: Devin-Adair. pp. 125–126.
Cohen, Matthew Isaac (2007). "Riboet, Miss (1900?–1965)". In Leiter, Samuel L. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre: O-Z. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. pp. 161–62. ISBN 978-0-313-33531-0.
The Death of Christopher Marlowe.
Several different names had been mentioned in connection with Marlowe's death, two being "one Ingram" and "ffrancis ffrezer". Hotson stumbled on "Ingram Frizer" and "felt at once that I had come upon the man who killed Christopher Marlowe" (p. 23).
Potts, Stephen (1991). The second Marxian invasion : the fiction of the Strugatsky brothers. San Bernardino, Calif: Borgo Press. p. 11. ISBN 9780893702793.
Marcel Chabrier; André Legrand (1925). Remy de Gourmont, son œuvre: portrait et autographe; document pour l'histoire de la littérature française (in French). Éditions de la Nouvelle revue critique.
F. Seymour Smith (1953). What Shall I Read Next? A Personal Selection of Twentieth Century English Books. Cambridge University Press. p. 69.
Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
Thomas, Susie (1990). Willa Cather. Savage, Md: Barnes & Noble Books. p. 183. ISBN 9780389208822.
Stokes, Henry (2000). The life and death of Yukio Mishima. New York Place of publication not identified: Cooper Square Press Distributed by National Book Network. p. 37. ISBN 9780815410744.