1920

• The Marionettes, a play by William Faulkner (limited hand-made editions; see 1975 for first trade edition)
• In April Once, and Other Poems, by William Alexander Percy (Yale University Press).

October 1: David Herbert Donald born in Goodman, Mississippi.

1921

• Three One Act Plays: Madretto, At the Shrine, Addie, by Stark Young (Stewart Ridd Co.)

May 28: Joseph Edgar Simmons born in Natchez.

July 12: Josephine Ayres (Ellen Douglas) born in Natchez.

July 19: Elizabeth Spencer born in Carrollton, Mississippi.

1922

Charles Evers was born near Decatur, Mississippi.

September 18: Newspaper columnist George Thatcher was born in Gulfport, Mississippi.

October 11: Thomas Hal Phillips was born on a farm near Corinth, Mississippi.

October 12: Borden Deal was born in Pontotoc, Mississippi.

1923

• Sea-Change, poems by Muna Lee (Macmillan)
• The Flower in Drama: A Book of Papers on the Theatre, by Stark Young (C. Scribern's Sons)

besmilr brigham born (as Bess Miller Moore) in Pace, Mississippi.

July 18: Jimmy Faulkner born in Oxford, Mississippi.

August 19: Martha Lacy Hall born in Magnolia, Mississippi.

December 3: Malcolm Franklin born in Shanghai, China.

1924

• The Marble Faun, poems by William Faulkner (the Four Seas Company).
• Enzio's Kingdom, and Other Poems, by William Alexander Percy (Yale University Press).
• The Colonnade, a play by Stark Young (Theatre Arts Inc.)
• The Three Fountains, sketches by Stark Young (C. Scribner's Sons)

July 18: Will Davis Campbell born in Liberty, Mississippi.

December 11: Charles East born in Shelby, Mississippi.

1925

• Glamour: Essays on the Art of the Theatre, by Stark Young (C. Scribner's Sons)
• The Saint: A Play in Four Acts, by Stark Young (Boni and Liveright)
• Sweet Times and the Blue Policeman, children's plays by Stark Young (H. Holt and Co.)

July 2: Medgar Evers born near Decatur, Mississippi.

November 21: Robert Canzoneri born in San Marcos, Texas.

December 5: John Alfred Williams born in Jackson, Mississippi

1926

• Soldiers' Pay, the first novel by William Faulkner (Boni and Liveright).
• Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles, a collection of sketches and caricatures by William Spratling with a foreword by William Faulkner.
• Four Years Beneath the Crescent, by Rafael de Nogales, translated by Muna Lee (Scribner's).
• Encaustics, by Stark Young (New Republic Inc.)
• Theatre Practice, nonfiction by Stark Young (C. Scribner's Sons)

July 1: Frank Trippett was born in Columbus, Mississippi.

May 25: John Crews born in Monroe, Michigan; at the age of six months his family moves to Vicksburg, Mississippi.

September 28: Jerry Clower born in Liberty, Mississippi.

1927

• A Trip Through the Piney Woods, by J.F.H. Claiborne (Purdy Press)
• Mosquitoes, a novel by William Faulkner (Boni and Liveright).
• Mandragola, by Niccolo Machiavelli, translation by Stark Young (Macauley Co.)
• The Theatre, nonfiction by Stark Young (H. Doran Co.)

October 8:

1928

• The Torches Flare, a novel by Stark Young (C. Scribner's Sons)

September 26: Joan Williams was born.

1929

• Sartoris, a novel by William Faulkner (Harcourt, Brace).
• The Sound and the Fury, a novel by William Faulkner (Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith).
• River House, a novel by Stark Young (C. Scribner's Sons)
• The Sea Gull, by Anton Chekhov, translation by Stark Young (C. Scribner's Sons)

October 23: Jere Hoar was born in Dyersburg, Tennessee.

January 12: Turner Cassity was born in Jackson, Mississippi.