The Swedish-American poet Carl Sandburg makes his name with 'Chicago', published in the magazine Poetry

Edgar Lee Masters makes his name as a poet with the publication of Spoon River Anthology

'Earth's the right place for love' in Robert Frost's 'Birches', included in his collection Mountain Interval

The Imagist poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) publishes her first collection, Sea Garden

The first annual prizes are awarded, under the terms of Joseph Pulitzer's will, for the best new US novel, play, history and biography

In My Antonia Willa Cather's heroine survives setbacks on the Nebraska frontier

Quia Pauper Amavi contains the first three of Ezra Pound's eventually more than 100 cantos

H.L. Mencken's The American Language traces the gradual evolution of American from English

Sherwood Anderson establishes a reputation with a collection of short stories, Winesburg, Ohio

Ezra Pound publishes Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, a poem that reflects on the practice of poetry itself

Edith Wharton publishes her best-known novel, The Age of Innocence

The publication of Scott FitzGerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise, brings him instant success

The American novelist Sinclair Lewis has his first major success with Main Street, an unflattering portrayal of American village life

Marianne Moore calls her first published collection simply Poems

Eugene O'Neill's play Anna Christie is performed in New York

The US architectural critic Lewis Mumford publishes The Story of Utopias, the first of his many influential works

Sinclair Lewis creates an archetypal character in George Folanshee Babbitt, a real-estate broker in the midwestern town of Zenith

Wallace Stevens' first collection, Harmonium, sells 100 copies

Robert Frost publishes a new collection of poems, New Hampshire

The US poet e.e. cummings publishes his first collection, Tulips and Chimneys

US poet Edna St Vincent Millay publishes The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems

US dramatist Elmer Rice establishes his reputation with The Adding Machine, an expressionistic drama about the machine age

US poet Robinson Jeffers publishes his first successful collection, Tamar and Other Poems

US poet E.A. Robinson publishes a narrative poem, The Man Who Died Twice, about the dissipation of artistic talent

Harold Ross founds The New Yorker as a humorous weekly, and remains in charge of it until his death in 1951