June 27 – The English writerEvelyn Waugh marries Evelyn Gardner, daughter of Lady Winifred Burghclere, in St Paul's Church,Portman Square, London, with onlyHarold Acton,Alec Waugh (the author's brother) andPansy Pakenham present.[5] They move into a flat in Canonbury Square,Islington. In September the author's first completed novel, the satireDecline and Fall, is published byChapman & Hall, of which his father,Arthur Waugh, is managing director. It is illustrated by the author. It reaches a third impression by the end of the year. The marriage lasts until the following September.
Leslie Charteris'sMeet the Tiger, the first adventure ofSimon Templar ("the Saint"), is published in the U.K.. Charteris will write dozens of novels and stories with the character in 1928–1963; successor writers will continue until 1983.
December 19 –Italo Svevo (Aron Schmitz), returning from an Alpine resort toTrieste, suffers a car accident. He dies next day leaving his novelIl Vegliardo (The Old Man) unfinished in mid-word.
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