1930 in literature

See also: 1929 in literature, other events of 1930, 1931 in literature, list of years in literature.

Deaths

• February 27 - George Haven Putnam, American author, publisher
• March 2 - D.H. Lawrence, novelist and poet
• March 12 - Alois Jirásek, novelist and dramatist
• April 21 - Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate
• May 17 - Herbert Croly, political writer
• June 9 - Arthur St. John Adcock, novelist
• July 7 - Arthur Conan Doyle, British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes
• August 29 - William Archibald Spooner, originator of the "spoonerism"
• date unknown - Sigurd Ibsen, politician and writer, son of Henrik Ibsen