Editing 1911 in literature (section)

==Births==
*[[January 9]] – [[Eva Alexanderson]], Swedish novelist and translator (died [[1994 in literature|1994]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oversattarlexikon.se/artiklar/Eva_Alexanderson|title=Eva Alexanderson, 1911–1994|work=Svenskt översättarlexikon|first=Annika Ruth|last=Persson|accessdate=12 April 2016|language=Swedish}}</ref>
*[[January 18]] – [[José María Arguedas]], Peruvian author (died [[1969 in literature|1969]])<ref>{{cite journal|last=Siemens|first=William L.|title=Chronology: José María Arguedas|journal=Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas|year=1980|volume=14|issue=25–26|pages=12&ndash;15|doi=10.1080/08905768008594020|via=[[Taylor & Francis]]}}</ref>
*[[January 22]] – [[Mary Hayley Bell]], English dramatist (died [[2005 in literature|2005]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/dec/05/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries|title=Obituary: Mary Hayley Bell|date=5 December 2005|website=The Guardian}}</ref>
*[[January 24]]
**[[C. L. Moore]], American science fiction author (died [[1987 in literature|1987]])<ref>{{cite web |last1=Congress |first1=The Library of |title=Moore, C. L. (Catherine Lucile), 1911-1987|url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50028286.html |website=id.loc.gov |access-date=15 March 2019}}</ref>
**[[L. Ron Hubbard]], American science fiction writer, founder of [[Scientology]] (died [[1986 in literature|1986]])
*[[February 4]] – [[Geoffrey Willans]], English novelist and comic writer (died [[1958 in literature|1958]])
*[[February 8]] – [[Elizabeth Bishop]], American poet, [[Pulitzer Prize]] winner (died [[1979 in literature|1979]])
*[[February 17]] – [[Margaret St. Clair]], American science fiction writer (died [[1995 in literature|1995]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Authors : St Clair, Margaret|encyclopedia=SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia|url=http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/st_clair_margaret|access-date=2019-03-15}}</ref>
*[[March 11]] – [[Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet|Fitzroy Maclean]], Scottish political writer and autobiographer (died [[1996 in literature|1996]])
*[[March 15]] – [[Ursula Vaughan Williams]], British poet, novelist and biographer (died [[2007 in literature|2007]])<ref>{{cite news | author=Robert Ponsonby | title=Obituary: Ursula Vaughan Williams | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ursula-vaughan-williams-397792.html | work=The Independent | date=25 October 2007 | access-date=29 October 2007}}</ref>
*[[March 16]] – [[Sybille Bedford]], German-born English novelist and journalist (died [[2006 in literature|2006]])
*[[March 26]] – [[Tennessee Williams]], American playwright (died [[1983 in literature|1983]])<ref>{{cite book| editor-last=Roudané| editor-first=Matthew Charles| title=The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams| publisher=Cambridge University Press| year=1997| url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgecompani00matt| url-access=registration| page=xvi| isbn=978-0521498838}}</ref>
*[[April 8]] – [[Emil Cioran]], Romanian philosopher and essayist (died [[1995 in literature|1995]])<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-10-23|title=Obituary: Emil Cioran|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-emil-cioran-1588019.html|access-date=2021-03-22|website=The Independent|language=en}}</ref>
*[[April 19]]
**[[Frank Barlow (historian)|Frank Barlow]], English historian, (died [[2009 in literature|2009]])<ref>{{Cite ODNB |id=101439 |title=Frank Barlow (1911–2009)}}</ref>)
**[[Ursula Moray Williams]], English children's writer (died [[2006 in literature|2006]])<ref>{{cite web |last1=Eccleshare |first1=Julia |title=Obituary: Ursula Moray Williams |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/nov/15/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries |website=The Guardian |access-date=19 August 2019 |date=15 November 2006}}</ref>
*[[May 15]] – [[Max Frisch]], Swiss author (died [[1991 in literature|1991]])<ref>''Frisch, Max (1911–1991)''. In Suzanne M. Bourgoin and Paula K. Byers, ''Encyclopedia of World Biography''. Detroit: Gale Research, 1998. Retrieved 18 April 2007.</ref>
*[[May 20]] – [[Annie M. G. Schmidt]], Dutch children's author (died [[1995 in literature|1995]])
*[[May 28]] – [[Fritz Hochwälder]], Austrian playwright (died [[1986 in literature|1986]])
*[[June 2]] – [[Xiao Hong]] (Qiao Yin, 張廼瑩) Chinese author (died [[1942 in literature|1942]])
*[[June 15]] - [[Wilbert Awdry]], British Anglican reverend and children's author (died [[1997 in literature|1997]]) 
*[[June 6]] – [[Verna Aardema]] (Verna Norberg), American children's author (died [[2000 in literature|2000]])
*[[June 30]] – [[Czesław Miłosz]], Lithuanian-born Polish author, [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] winner (died 2004)
*[[July 17]] – [[Yang Jiang]], Chinese playwright, author, and translator (died [[2016 in literature|2016]])
*[[July 21]] – [[Marshall McLuhan]], Canadian media theorist (died [[1980 in literature|1980]])
*[[July 22]] – [[George Ivașcu]], Romanian journalist, literary critic, and communist militant (died [[1988 in literature|1988]])
*[[July 27]] – [[Rayner Heppenstall]], English novelist and poet (died [[1981 in literature|1981]])
*[[September 19]] – [[William Golding]], British novelist, playwright and poet, [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] winner (died [[1993 in literature|1993]])
*[[October 13]] – [[Millosh Gjergj Nikolla]], Albanian poet and writer (died [[1938 in literature|1938]])
*[[November 2]] – [[Odysseas Elytis]], Greek poet, Nobel Prize winner (died [[1996 in literature|1996]])
*[[November 19]] – [[Mary Elizabeth Counselman]], American author and poet (died [[1995 in literature|1995]])
*[[December 4]] – [[Robert Payne (author)|Robert Payne]], English author, poet and biographer (died [[1983 in literature|1983]])
*[[December 11]] – [[Naguib Mahfouz]], Egyptian novelist, Nobel Prize in literature winner (died [[2006 in literature|2006]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006)|url=http://www.aucpress.com/t-aboutnm.aspx|website=The American University in Cairo Press|publisher=AUC Press|access-date=26 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170602051825/http://www.aucpress.com/t-aboutnm.aspx|archive-date=2 June 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[December 25]] – [[Noel Langley]], South African-born American screenwriter (died [[1980 in literature|1980]])