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1923
 
    
Bessie Smith has a big hit with her first record, Downhearted Blues, selling two million copies within a year       
c. 1923
 
    
Marcel Duchamp completes his large glass construction The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even       
1923
 
   
Wallace Stevens' first collection, Harmonium, sells 100 copies      
1923
 
   
Robert Frost publishes a new collection of poems, New Hampshire      
1923
 
    
The US poet e.e. cummings publishes his first collection, Tulips and Chimneys       
1923
 
    
US poet Edna St Vincent Millay publishes The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems       
1923
 
   
Warren Harding dies little more than half way through his term of office as US president      
1923
 
    
Warren Harding is succeeded as US president by his vice-president, Calvin Coolidge       
1923
 
    
US dramatist Elmer Rice establishes his reputation with The Adding Machine, an expressionistic drama about the machine age       
1923
 
    
Bernard Shaw's play Saint Joan has its world premiere in New York