This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1920.
Children and young people
L. Frank Baum – Glinda of Oz
Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan the Untamed
R. A. H. Goodyear – Forge of Foxenby
Hugh Lofting – The Story of Doctor Dolittle
Olive Beaupré Miller – In the Nursery (first in the My Book House series)
S. Ansky – The Dybbuk (first performed, in author's Yiddish translation as דֶער דִבּוּק צִווִישֶן צְווַיי ווֶעלְטֶן, Tzvishn Zwey Weltn – der Dibuk)
Karel Čapek – R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
Nikolai Evreinov – The Storming of the Winter Palace
John Galsworthy – The Skin Game
Georg Kaiser – Gas II
Vladimir Mayakovsky – The Championship of the Universal Class Struggle
Eugene O'Neill – The Emperor Jones
Ernst Toller – Man and Masses
Louis Verneuil – Daniel
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz – They
Louis Aragon – Feu de joie
Edmund Blunden – The Waggoner and Other Poems
Robert Bridges – October and Other Poems
Miguel de Unamuno – El Cristo de Velázquez
T. S. Eliot – Poems (Twelve poems including "Lune de Miel" and "The Hippopotamus")
Robert Frost – Miscellaneous Poems
Aaro Hellaakoski – Me Kaksi
Bolesław Leśmian - Meadow (Łąka)
Wilfred Owen – Poems
Ezra Pound – Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
Carl Sandburg – Smoke and Steel
Siegfried Sassoon – Picture Show
Edna St. Vincent Millay – A Few Figs From Thistles
Anton Schnack – Tier rang gewaltig mit Tier (Beast Strove Mightily with Beast)
Georg Trakl – Der Herbst des Einsamen (The Autumn of the Lonely)
Valour and Vision: Poems of the War, 1914–1918 (anthology)
Sarah Bernhardt – Petite Idole
Sigmund Freud – Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Jenseits des Lustprinzips)
William Inge – The Idea of Progress
Ernst Jünger – Storm of Steel (In Stahlgewittern)
J. Thomas Looney – Shakespeare Identified
Harold Monro – Some Contemporary Poets (1920)
Radu Rosetti – Povești moldovenești
Frederick Jackson Turner — The Frontier in American History
H. G. Wells – The Outline of History
January 2 (probable date) – Isaac Asimov, Russian-born American science-fiction author and biochemist (died 1992)
January 14
Jean Dutourd, French novelist (died 2011)
Che Lan Vien, Vietnamese poet (died 1989)
January 22 – Philippa Pearce, English children's writer (died 2006)
January 24 – Keith Douglas, English poet (died 1944)
February 11 – Daniel F. Galouye, American science-fiction author (died 1976)
February 12 – William Roscoe Estep, American historian and educator (died 2000)
February 19 – Jaan Kross, Estonian writer (died 2007)
February 21 – Ishigaki Rin (石垣 りん), Japanese poet (died 2004)
February 29 – Howard Nemerov, American poet (died 1991)
March 10 – Boris Vian, French novelist (died 1959)
March 11 – D. J. Enright, English writer (died 2002)
March 25 – Paul Scott, English novelist, playwright and poet (died 1978)
March 31 – Marga Minco (Sara Menco), Dutch novelist and journalist
April 5 – Arthur Hailey, English-born Canadian novelist (died 2004)
April 11 – Marlen Haushofer, Austrian novelist (died 1970)
May 8 – Sloan Wilson, American author and poet (died 2003)
May 9 – Richard Adams, English novelist, author of Watership Down (died 2016)
June 2 – Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-born German literary critic (died 2013)
June 8 – Gwen Harwood, Australian poet (died 1995)
June 9 – Isobel English (Guesdon Jolliffe), English novelist (died 1994)
June 13 – Ruth Guimarães, Afro-Brazilian classicist, fiction writer and poet (died 2014)
June 18 – Rosemary Dobson, Australian poet (died 2012)
June 20 – Amos Tutuola, Nigerian writer (died 1997)
July 3 – Max Wilk, American playwright, screenwriter and author of fiction and nonfiction (died 2011)
July 12 – Pierre Berton, Canadian author (died 2004)
August 3 – P. D. James, English crime novelist (died 2014)
August 4 – John Figueroa, Jamaican poet (died 1999)
August 9 – Tormod Skagestad, Norwegian poet, novelist and playwright (died 1997)
August 16 – Charles Bukowski, American writer (died 1994)
August 18 – Harbhajan Singh, Punjabi poet and critic (died 2002)
August 21 – Christopher Robin Milne, English writer and bookseller (died 1996)
August 22 – Ray Bradbury, American science-fiction writer (died 2012)
October 8 – Frank Herbert, American science-fiction writer (died 1986)
October 15 – Mario Puzo, American author of The Godfather (died 1999)
November 16 - Colin Thiele, Australian author (died 2006)
November 16 - Peter Viertel, American author (died 2007)
November 23 – Paul Celan, Romanian poet (died 1970)
December 10 – Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist (died 1977)
December 15 – Albert Memmi, Tunisian writer in French
December 20 – Väinö Linna, Finnish novelist (died 1992)
January 2 – Paul Adam, French novelist (born 1862)
January 4 – Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist (born 1843)
January 18 – Giovanni Capurro, Italian poet (born 1825)
February 8 – Richard Dehmel, German poet (born 1863)
February 29 – A. H. Bullen, English editor and publisher (born 1857)
March 9 – Haralamb Lecca, Romanian dramatist, poet and translator (paralysis, born 1873)
March 15 – Edith Holden, English diarist and illustrator (drowned, born 1871)
March 26 – Mary Augusta Ward (Mrs. Humphry Ward), Tasmanian-born English novelist (born 1851)
May 11 – William Dean Howells, American realist novelist (born 1837)
May 21 – Eleanor H. Porter, American novelist (born 1868)
June 5
Rhoda Broughton, Welsh novelist and short-story writer (born 1840)
Julia A. Moore, American poet (born 1847)
June 14 – Max Weber, German political economist (born 1864)
June 27 – Adolphe Basile Routhier, Canadian poet (born 1839)
September 29 – José Domingo Gómez Rojas, Chilean poet (meningitis, born 1896)
October 19 – John Reed, American journalist (born 1887)
October 20 – Bithia Mary Croker, Irish-born novelist (born c. 1848)
November 1 – Walter Bradford Woodgate, English boating writer and oarsman (born 1841)
November 9 – Alberto Blest Gana, Chilean novelist (born 1830)
November 22 – Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (born 1884)
November 24 – Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian poet, novelist and dramatist (heart disease, born 1854)
December 18 – Matthías Jochumsson, Icelandic poet, playwright and translator (born 1835)
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: D. H. Lawrence, The Lost Girl
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: G. M. Trevelyan, Lord Grey of the Reform Bill
Nobel Prize for Literature: Knut Hamsun
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: no award given
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: no award given
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Eugene O'Neill, Beyond the Horizon
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