Editing 1910 in literature (section)

==Events==
*[[January 8]] – Serialisation of [[Gaston Leroux]]'s novel ''[[The Phantom of the Opera (novel)|The Phantom of the Opera]] (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra)'' concludes in the Paris newspaper ''[[Le Gaulois]]''.<ref>{{Cite book|author=Gaston Leroux|title=The Phantom of the Opera|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qnf9Mm0wsKYC&pg=PR21|date=8 March 2012|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-162381-3|pages=21}}</ref>
*[[January 30]] – [[Uncle Wiggily]] Longears, a rheumatic rabbit created by [[Howard R. Garis]], makes his debut in the ''[[Newark News]]'' (U.S.)
*March – [[Lesotho]] author [[Thomas Mofolo]] completes his novel ''[[Chaka (novel)|Chaka]]''; he leaves Morija suddenly and it is not published until 1925.<ref name="Mofolo2013">{{Cite book|author=Thomas Mofolo|title=Chaka|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QXcbAAAAQBAJ&pg=PR11|date=21 May 2013|publisher=Waveland Press|isbn=978-1-4786-0972-8|pages=11}}</ref>
*[[March 18]] – The first movie version of [[Mary Shelley]]'s ''[[Frankenstein (1910 film)|Frankenstein]]'' ([[1818 in literature|1818]]) is released in the U.S. by [[Edison Studios]]. One of the first [[horror film]]s, it features unbilled the actor [[Charles Stanton Ogle|Charles Ogle]] as [[Frankenstein's monster|the monster]].
*[[March 30]] – William Johnston and Paul West's novel ''The Innocent Murderers'' is published in New York City, as the first work of academic crime fiction.
*[[April 20]] – [[Halley's comet]] reappears after 76 years, and [[Mark Twain]] dies at his home, [[Stormfield]], the day after the [[comet]]'s [[perihelion]]. In his autobiography, Twain wrote, "I came in with Halley's comet in 1835. It's coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. The Almighty has said no doubt, 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'"
*[[August 11]] – The [[Buenos Aires Convention]] is signed, providing for international recognition of [[copyright]].
*September – [[G. K. Chesterton]]'s fictional detective [[Father Brown]] makes a first U.K. appearance in the short story "[[The Blue Cross (short story)|The Blue Cross]]" in the ''[[Story-Teller]]'' magazine (London), having previously appeared on June 23 as "Valentin Follows a Curious Trail" in ''[[The Saturday Evening Post]]'' ([[Philadelphia]]).
*[[September 1]] – [[Herbert Beerbohm Tree]]'s elaborate revival of [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Henry VIII (play)|Henry VIII]]'' opens in London. It will run for 254 consecutive performances.
*October – [[Filippo Tommaso Marinetti]]'s first novel ''Mafarka il futurista'' is cleared of obscenity charges.<ref>{{Cite book |author=Blum, Cinzia Sartini |title=The Other Modernism: F. T. Marinetti's Futurist Fiction of Power |publisher=University of California Press |year=1996 |isbn=9780520916272 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XYIv4O2N98sC}}, p. 181.</ref>
*Fall – [[Damon Runyon]] begins working as a journalist on ''[[The New York American]]''.
*[[November 20]] – Russian novelist [[Leo Tolstoy]] dies of [[pneumonia]] aged 82<ref>{{cite book|title=Leo Tolstoy|first=E. J.|last=Simmons|year=1946|publisher=Little, Brown}}</ref> at [[Lev Tolstoy (rural locality)|Astapovo]] railway station, after a day's train journey south, fleeing from his home.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n14/james-meek/some-wild-creature|title=James Meek reviews 'The Death of Tolstoy' by William Nickell, 'The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy' translated by Cathy Porter, 'A Confession' by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Anthony Briggs and 'Anniversary Essays on Tolstoy' by Donna Tussing Orwin|pages=3–8|newspaper=London Review of Books|date=2010-07-22|last=Meek|first=James}}</ref>
*Ongoing – [[Boris Pasternak]] drops out of the [[Moscow Conservatory]] and begins to study law, moving on to study philosophy at the [[University of Marburg]]. He also falls in love with [[Olga Freidenberg]].