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| 1920 |
| | | The American novelist Sinclair Lewis has his first major success with Main Street, an unflattering portrayal of American village life | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Somerset Maugham's short story 'Rain' (in his collection The Trembling of a Leaf) introduces the lively American prostitute Sadie Thompson | |
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| 1922 |
| | | D.H. Lawrence takes a house in Sydney, where he writes the bulk of his novel Kangaroo | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Sinclair Lewis creates an archetypal character in George Folanshee Babbitt, a real-estate broker in the midwestern town of Zenith | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Thomas Mann publishes a fragment of his Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man | |
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| 1923 |
| | | The Czech novelist Jaroslav Hasek dies with his masterpiece, The Good Soldier Schweik, incomplete | |
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| 1923 |
| | | The Italian novelist Italo Svevo has his first great success when The Confessions of Zeno is published in France | |
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| 1923 |
| | | The gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey makes his first appearance in Dorothy Sayers' Whose Body? | |
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| 1924 |
| | | German author Thomas Mann publishes his novel The Magic Mountain | |
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| 1924 |
| | | E.M. Forster's novel A Passage to India builds on cultural misconceptions between the British and Indian communities | |
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