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The year 1921 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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Events
- Jorge Luis Borges returns to Buenos Aires after a period living in Europe.
New books
- Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan the Terrible
- James Branch Cabell - Figures of Earth
- Hall Caine - The Master of Man
- Willa Cather - Alexander's Bridge
- Arthur Chapman - Mystery Ranch
- Marie Corelli - The Secret Power
- F. Scott Fitzgerald - Flappers and Philosophers
- H. Rider Haggard - She and Allan
- Georgette Heyer - The Black Moth
- Aldous Huxley - Crome Yellow
- Sheila Kaye-Smith - Joanna Godden
- Denis Mackail - Romance to the Rescue
- Lucy Maud Montgomery - Rilla of Ingleside
- George Moore - Heloise and Abelard
- Shiga Naoya - A Dark Night's Passing
- Baroness Orczy
- Gene Stratton Porter - Her Father's Daughter
- Rafael Sabatini - Scaramouche
- Booth Tarkington - Alice Adams
- Sigrid Undset - The Mistress of Husaby
- Eugene Walter - The Byzantine riddle and other stories
- Elinor Wylie - Nets to Catch the Wind
New drama
- Hjalmar Bergman - Farmor och vår Herre (Thy Rod and Thy Staff)
- Susan Glaspell - Inheritors
- Karel Čapek R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
Poetry
- Charlotte Mew - Saturday Market
- William Carlos Williams - Sour Grapes
- William Butler Yeats - Michael Robartes and the Dancer
Non-fiction
- Sarah Bernhardt - The Idol of Paris
- D. H. Lawrence - Sea and Sardinia
- Hendrik Willem van Loon - The Story of Mankind
- Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk - Further Essays on Capital and Interest
Births
- January 5 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (d. 1990)
- January 19 - Patricia Highsmith, American author (d. 1995)
- January 20 - Bernt Engelmann, author (d. 1994)
- February 4 - Betty Friedan, feminist author, The Feminine Mystique (d. 2006)
- February 15 - Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (d. 1985)
- March 1 - Richard Wilbur, American poet
- March 24 - Wilson Harris, Guyanese writer
- May 23 - James Blish, American science fiction author (d. 1975)
- August 11 - Alex Haley, American writer (d. 1992)
- September 26 - Cyprian Ekwensi, Nigerian writer (d. 2007)
- October 17 - George Mackay Brown, Scottish poet (d. 1996)
- November 22 - Brian Cleeve, Irish author (d. 2003)
- date unknown
- Israil Bercovici, dramatist and historian (d. 1988)
Deaths
- March 22 - Ernest William Hornung, English author (b. 1866)
- May 5 - Alfred Hermann Fried, publicist (b. 1864)
- May 12 - Emilia Pardo Bazán, Spanish novelist (b. 1851)
- May 13 - Jean Aicard, French writer (b. 1848)
- June 5 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b. 1862)
- June 26 - Alfred Percy Sinnett, Theosophist author (b. 1840)
- July 4 - Antoni Grabowski, promoter of Esperanto (b. 1857)
- August 7 - Alexander Blok, Russian poet (b. 1880)
- August 20 - Ernest Daudet, novelist, historian and biographer
- October 10 - Otto von Gierke, German historian (b. 1841)
- date unknown
- Maximilian Berlitz, founder of Berlitz language schools (b. 1852)
- John Habberton, critic (b. 1842)
Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Walter de la Mare, Memoirs of a Midget
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Anatole France
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Zona Gale, Miss Lulu Bett
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel : Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence