June 27 – The English writer Evelyn Waugh marries Evelyn Gardner, daughter of Lady Winifred Burghclere, in St Paul's Church, Portman Square, London, with only Harold Acton, Alec Waugh (the author's brother) and Pansy Pakenham present.[5] They move into a flat in Canonbury Square, Islington. In September the author's first completed novel, Decline and Fall, is published by Chapman & 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's Meet the Tiger, the first adventure of Simon 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 to Trieste, suffers a car accident. He dies next day leaving his novel Il Vegliardo (The Old Man) unfinished in mid-word.
^Dynes, Wayne (1992). History of homosexuality in Europe and America. New York: Garland Pub. p. 559. ISBN9780815305507.
^Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Macmillan. 1973. p. 492.
^Lucey, Michael (2019). Someone : the pragmatics of misfit sexualities, from Colette to Hervé Guibert. Chicago London: The University of Chicago Press. p. 31. ISBN9780226606217.