Editing 1920 in literature (section)

==Deaths==
*[[January 2]] – [[Paul Adam (French novelist)|Paul Adam]], French Symbolist novelist (born [[1862 in literature|1862]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |year=1930 |title=Adam, Paul |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopaedia Britannica]] |edition=14|volume=1|page=149 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[January 4]] – [[Benito Pérez Galdós]], Spanish novelist (born [[1843 in literature|1843]])
*[[January 9]] – [[Ella Dietz]], American actress and author (born [[1847 in literature|1847]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Mrs. Clymer, Actress, Dead |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108489056/obit-ella-dietz-clymer/ |access-date=28 August 2022 |work=New-York Tribune |via=Newspapers.com |date=2 May 1920 |page=17}}</ref>
*[[January 18]] – [[Giovanni Capurro]], Italian poet (born [[1825 in literature|1825]])
*[[February 8]] – [[Richard Dehmel]], German poet (born [[1863 in literature|1863]])<ref>{{Cite Americana|wstitle=Dehmel, Richard|author=William F. Hauhart}}</ref>
*[[February 29]] – [[A. H. Bullen]], English editor and publisher (born [[1857 in literature|1857]])
*[[March 9]] – [[Haralamb Lecca]], Romanian dramatist, poet and translator (paralysis, born [[1873 in literature|1873]])
*[[March 15]] – [[Edith Holden]], English diarist and illustrator (drowned, born [[1871 in literature|1871]])
*[[March 24]] – [[Mary Augusta Ward]] (Mrs. Humphry Ward), Tasmanian-born English novelist (born [[1851 in literature|1851]])<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Stewart | first1 = Herbert L | year = 1920 | title = Mrs. Humphry Ward | url = https://archive.org/stream/n1universitymag19mcgiuoft#page/192/mode/2up | journal = The University Magazine | volume = XIX | issue = 2| pages = 193–207 }}</ref>
*[[April 6]] – [[Mary Evelyn Hitchcock]], American author and explorer (born [[1849 in literature|1849]])
*[[May 7]] – [[Hugh Thomson]], British illustrator (born [[1860 in literature|1860]])
*[[May 8]] – [[Annie Russell Wall]], American historian, writer, teacher (born [[1835 in literature|1835]])
*[[May 11]] – [[William Dean Howells]], American realist novelist (born [[1837 in literature|1837]])
*[[May 15]] – [[Owen Morgan Edwards]], Welsh writer, educator (b. [[1858]])<ref>{{cite DWB|id=s-EDWA-MOR-1858|title=Edwards, Sir Owen Morgan (1858 - 1920), man of letters|author=Robert Thomas Jenkins|year=1959|access-date=10 April 2023}}</ref>
*[[May 21]] – [[Eleanor H. Porter]], American novelist (born [[1868 in literature|1868]])
*[[June 5]]
**[[Rhoda Broughton]], Welsh novelist and short-story writer (born [[1840 in literature|1840]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Marilyn Wood|title=Rhoda Broughton (1840-1920): Profile of a Novelist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-khaAAAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Paul Watkins|isbn=978-1-871615-34-0|page=123}}</ref>
**[[Julia A. Moore]], American poet (born [[1847 in literature|1847]])
*[[June 14]] – [[Max Weber]], German political economist (born [[1864 in literature|1864]])
*[[June 27]] – [[Adolphe Basile Routhier]], Canadian poet (born [[1839 in literature|1839]])
*[[September 29]] – [[José Domingo Gómez Rojas]], Chilean poet (meningitis, born [[1896 in literature|1896]])
*[[October 17]] – [[John Reed (journalist)|John Reed]], American journalist (born [[1887 in literature|1887]])
*[[October 20]] – [[Bithia Mary Croker]], Irish-born novelist (born c. 1848)
*[[October 25]] – [[Terence MacSwiney]], Irish playwright, poet and politician (hunger strike, born [[1879 in literature|1879]])
*[[November 1]] – [[Walter Bradford Woodgate]], English boating writer and oarsman (born [[1841 in literature|1841]])
*[[November 9]] – [[Alberto Blest Gana]], Chilean novelist (born [[1830 in literature|1830]])
*[[November 19]] – [[Alice E. Bartlett]], American author, novelist, essayist, lyricist (born [[1848 in literature|1848]])
*[[November 22]] – [[Manuel Pérez y Curis]], Uruguayan poet (born [[1884 in literature|1884]])
*[[November 24]] – [[Alexandru Macedonski]], Romanian poet, novelist and dramatist (heart disease, born [[1854 in literature|1854]])
*[[December 16]] – [[Helen Ekin Starrett]], American educator, author, suffragist and magazine founder (born [[1840 in literature|1840]])
*[[December 18]] – [[Matthías Jochumsson]], Icelandic poet, playwright and translator (born [[1835 in literature|1835]])
*[[December 24]] – [[Matilda Maranda Crawford]], American-Canadian newspaper correspondent, writer, poet (born [[1844 in literature|1844]])