“Such Friends”: The Literary 1920s, Volume IV–1923

1923 Four weddings and two funerals. An Egyptian curse. An opportunity to stop Hitler. What more could you ask for in one year? In “Such Friends”: The Literary 1920s, Volume IV–1923, Kathleen Dixon Donnelly continues to chronicle the events in the lives of the decade’s leading writers and artists, as well as the atmosphere of the time. Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. English novelist Virginia Woolf is turning her short story, “Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street” into a novel. American writer Gertrude Stein, living in Paris, is getting more recognition in the States. New York free-lance writer Dorothy Parker is writing light verse but also expanding into short stories.