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Events relating to literature
DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy, dramatized with a new title by himself and his wife Dorothy, has a great success on Broadway and in London
Hermann Hesse publishes a mystical novel, Steppenwolf, based on the concept of a double personality
In Being and Time German philosopher Martin Heidegger makes an existentialist case with Dasein ('Being There') as the central theme
Anglo-Irish author Elizabeth Bowen publishes her first novel, The Hotel
Virginia Woolf uses a Hebridean holiday as the setting for her narrative in To The Lighthouse
Irish author Frank Harris publishes the fourth and final volume of My Life and Loves
Don Marquis publishes archy and mehitabel, the first collection of his sketches about archy the cockroach and mehitabel the alley cat
Mysterious German author B. Traven writes a novel, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, about three Americans searching for a lost gold mine in Mexico
W.B. Yeats's new volume of poems, The Tower, includes 'Sailing to Byzantium'
Caribbean-born author Jean Rhys publishes her first novel, Postures, based on her affair with the writer Ford Madox Ford
Siegfried Sassoon publishes Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, the first volume of a semi-autobiographical trilogy
Stephen V. Benét publishes a verse narrative of the Civil War under the title John Brown's Body
The Front Page, by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, has its premiere on Broadway
Russian author Mikhail Sholokhov publishes the first section of And Quiet Flows the Don
US anthropologist Margaret Mead makes much of trouble-free sex among natives, in Coming of Age in Samoa, but her findings are subsequently disputed
García Lorca wins fame with his book of poems Gypsy Ballads
Set in a World War I trench, the play Journey's End reflects the wartime experiences of its British author, R.C. Sherriff
D.H. Lawrence's new novel, in which Lady Chatterley is in love with her husband's gamekeeper, is privately printed in Florence
Evelyn Waugh succeeds with a comic first novel, Decline and Fall
Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness is the first to deal openly with a lesbian subject
Sartoris is the first of 14 novels by William Faulkner set in his fictional Yoknapatawpha County
French author Jean Cocteau publishes Les Enfants Terribles, a novel about a brother and sister in a suffocatingly claustrophobic relationsip
Richard Hughes publishes his first novel, A High Wiind in Jamaica
Vladimir Mayakovsky's play The Bedbug is directed in Moscow by Meyerhold with incidental music by Shostakovich
Ernest Hemingway publishes A Farewell to Arms, closely reflecting his own wartime experiences
