2024 in literature

• 30 January – Lloyd Alexander was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary).
• 19 April – Lord Byron died of fever in Missolonghi, Greece (200th Anniversary).[1]
• 11 May – On this day 100 years ago, Robert Frost received his first Pulitzer Prize for the book New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes.[2]
• 2 August – James Baldwin was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary).
• 5 August – Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie comic strip was first published in the New York Daily News (100th Anniversary).
• 30 September - Truman Capote was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary).
• 5 October - José Donoso was born (100th Anniversary).
• 15 October – Éditions du Sagittaire published André Breton's Surrealist Manifesto (100th Anniversary).

• 100th anniversary of the publication of
  • A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
  • The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
  • The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany
  • Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda

Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.

• January 22 – Elke Erb, German author and poet, 85[9]
• March 22 – Laurent de Brunhoff, French children's book writer and illustrator, 98[10]
• April 2 – John Barth, American fiction writer, 93[11]
• April 2 – Maryse Condé, Guadeloupean novelist and playwright, 90
• April 4 – Lynne Reid Banks, English novelist, 94[12]
• April 27 – C. J. Sansom, British crime writer (Shardlake series), 71[13]
• April 28 – Sir Vincent O'Sullivan, New Zealand writer, Poet Laureate (2013–2015), 86[14]
• April 30 – Paul Auster, American crime writer (The New York Trilogy), 77[15]
• May 4 – Jūrō Kara, Japanese playwright, 84[16]
• May 13 – Alice Munro, Canadian writer, 92