Editing 1915 in literature (section)

==Births==
*[[January 1]] – [[Branko Ćopić]], Bosnian Serb writer (suicide [[1984 in literature|1984]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Layman|author2=Gale Cengage|title=South Slavic Writers Since World War II|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T80UAQAAIAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Gale Research|isbn=978-0-7876-1070-8|page=42}}</ref>
*[[January 6]] – [[Alan Watts]], British/American philosopher (died [[1973 in literature|1973]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Alan Watts|author2=John Snelling|title=The Early Writings of Alan Watts: The British Years, 1931-1938 : Writings in Buddhism in England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bAYHAAAAYAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Celestial Arts|isbn=978-0-89087-480-6|page=2}}</ref>
*[[January 28]] – [[Nien Cheng]], Chinese-born American writer (died [[2009 in literature|2009]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/nov/10/nien-cheng-obituary|title=Nien Cheng obituary|date=November 10, 2009|author=Kerry Brown|website=Guardian|access-date=July 24, 2021}}</ref>
*[[February 2]] – [[Khushwant Singh]], Indian novelist and journalist (died [[2014 in literature|2014]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=James Vinson|author2=D. L. Kirkpatrick|title=Novelists and Prose Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1oEjAQAAIAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=978-0-333-25292-5|page=1116}}</ref>
*[[February 11]] – [[Patrick Leigh Fermor]], British author (died [[2011 in literature|2011]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Caribbean Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uGAYAQAAIAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Caribbean Review, Incorporated}}</ref>
*[[March 8]] – [[Drue Heinz]], born Doreen English, British-American patron (died [[2018 in literature|2018]])
*[[March 13]] – [[Protiva Bose]] (Ranu Shome), Bengali singer and writer (died [[2006 in literature|2006]]){{cn|date=January 2025}}
*[[March 18]] – [[Richard Condon]], American novelist (died [[1996 in literature|1996]])
*[[March 26]] – [[Hwang Sun-won]], Korean fiction writer (died [[2000 in literature|2000]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Flowers of Fire: Twentieth-century Korean Stories|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|year=1986|isbn=9780824810368|page=86}}</ref>
*[[April 12]] – [[Július Tomin (Interlingua)|Július Tomin]], Czech writer known for promoting [[Interlingua]] (died [[2003 in literature|2003]])
*[[April 15]] – [[Hilda Bernstein]], English-born author, artist, and anti-apartheid activist (died [[2006 in literature|2006]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/hilda-bernstein-416691.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/hilda-bernstein-416691.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Hilda Bernstein|date=September 22, 2011|website=The Independent|access-date=July 25, 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
*[[April 24]] – [[Salvador Borrego]], Mexican journalist, historical revisionist and neo-nazi writer (d. [[2018]])
*[[May 5]] – [[Emanuel Litvinoff]], Anglo-Jewish writer (died [[2011 in literature|2011]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/sep/26/emanuel-litvinoff|title=Emanuel Litvinoff obituary|date=September 26, 2011|author=Judith Burnley|website=Guardian|access-date=July 24, 2021}}</ref>
*[[May 8]] – [[Milton Meltzer]], American historian and author (died [[2009 in literature|2009]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/books/25meltzer.html|title=Milton Meltzer, Author of Nonfiction Books for the Young, Dies at 94|last=Hevesi|first=Dennis|date=2009-09-24|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-11-09|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> 
*[[May 10]] – [[Monica Dickens]], English novelist (died [[1992 in literature|1992]])<ref>{{cite news|author=Charles Pick|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-monica-dickens-1566170.html|title=Obituary: Monica Dickens|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|date=31 December 1992}}</ref>
*[[May 12]] – [[Joe David Brown]], American novelist and journalist (died [[1976 in literature|1976]])
*[[May 27]] – [[Herman Wouk]], American novelist (died [[2019 in literature|2019]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Heinz-Dietrich Fischer|title=Novel / Fiction Awards, 1917-1994|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2P_rAAAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Saur|isbn=978-3-598-30180-3|page=135}}</ref>
*[[June 10]] – [[Saul Bellow]], American writer (died [[2005 in literature|2005]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Georgia Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aPG2FkH1z7wC|year=1995|publisher=University of Georgia|page=76}}</ref>
*[[June 21]] – [[Jesús Arango Cano]], Colombian economist, diplomat, anthropologist, archaeologist and writer (died [[2015 in literature|2015]])
*[[June 22]] – [[Thomas Quinn Curtiss]], American writer, and film and theatre critic (died [[2000 in literature|2000]])
*[[July 1]]
**[[Alun Lewis (poet)|Alun Lewis]], Welsh poet in English (died [[1944 in literature|1944]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Pikoulis|title=Alun Lewis: A Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4xlbAAAAMAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Seren Books|isbn=978-1-85411-018-3|page=8}}</ref>
**[[Jean Stafford]], American fiction writer (died [[1979 in literature|1979]])
*[[July 7]] – [[Margaret Walker]], American poet and novelist (died [[1998 in literature|1998]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=William L. Andrews|author2=Frances Smith Foster|author3=Trudier Harris|title=The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-9XtCY7cijMC&pg=PA417|date=15 February 2001|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-803175-8|pages=417}}</ref>
*[[July 14]] – [[Jerome Lawrence]], American dramatist (died [[2004 in literature|2004]])
*[[July 31]] – [[Herbert Aptheker]], American historian (died [[2003 in literature|2003]])
*[[August 13]] – [[Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo]], Pakistani teacher, writer, scholar, and Sindhi nationalist (died [[2017 in literature|2017]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/748397/the-literati-genius-sindh-celebrates-100-years-of-ibrahim-joyo/|title=The literati genius: Sindh celebrates 100 years of Ibrahim Joyo - The Express Tribune|date=14 August 2014|publisher=}}</ref>
*[[August 19]] – [[Ring Lardner, Jr.]], American journalist and screenwriter (died [[2000 in literature|2000]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Clifford M. Caruthers|title=Letters of Ring Lardner|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O1UtMB50GD0C&pg=PA108|year=1995|publisher=Orchises Press|isbn=978-0-914061-52-6|pages=108}}</ref>
*[[August 28]] – [[Claude Roy (poet)|Claude Roy]], French poet (died [[1997 in literature|1997]])
*[[August 30]] – [[Jack Simmons (historian)|Jack Simmons]], English historian (died [[2000 in literature|2000]])
*[[September 8]] – [[Benoît Lacroix]], Canadian theologian and philosopher (died [[2016 in literature|2016]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|title=Reports of the President and of the Treasurer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M4_WAAAAMAAJ|year=1959|publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|page=124}}</ref>
*[[September 17]] – [[Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez]], Spanish-born philosopher ([[2011 in literature|2011]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Stefan Gandler|title=Critical Marxism in Mexico: Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolívar Echeverría|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jPhyBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA16|date=1 September 2015|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-28468-5|pages=16}}</ref>
*[[September 21]] – [[Gertrude Poe]], American journalist (died [[2017 in literature|2017]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/howard/laurel/ph-ll-obit-gertrude-poe-0720-20170714-story.html |title=Gertrude Poe, 101, edited Laurel Leader for 41 years |newspaper=Laurel Leader |publisher=Baltimore Sun Media Group |date=July 14, 2017 |access-date=July 15, 2017 |first=Melanie |last=Dzwonchyk |archive-date=July 19, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170719135502/http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/howard/laurel/ph-ll-obit-gertrude-poe-0720-20170714-story.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[September 27]] – [[Marjorie Chibnall]], English medievalist, biographer and translator (died [[2012 in literature|2012]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Ann Evory|title=Contemporary Authors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=phIQbS5U-TkC|date=April 1978|publisher=Gale / Cengage Learning|isbn=978-0-8103-0035-4|page=120}}</ref>
*[[October 17]] – [[Arthur Miller]], American dramatist (died [[2005 in literature|2005]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Neil Carson|title=Arthur Miller|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hPMcBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA2|date=25 April 2008|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|isbn=978-1-137-02141-0|pages=2}}{{Dead link|date=February 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
*[[October 24]] – [[Marghanita Laski]], English biographer, novelist and broadcaster (died [[1988 in literature|1988]])
*[[November 8]] – [[G. S. Fraser]], Scottish poet and critic (died [[1980 in literature|1980]])
*[[November 12]] – [[Roland Barthes]], French literary theorist (died 1980)<ref>{{cite book|author=Graham Allen|title=Roland Barthes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ID9cBdFvydUC&pg=PA1|date=2 June 2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-50340-7|pages=1}}</ref>
*[[November 16]] – [[Jean Fritz]], American children's writer (died [[2017 in literature|2017]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/books/jean-fritz-dead-childrens-book-author.html|title=Jean Fritz, Who Wrote History Books for Children, Dies at 101|last=Fox|first=Margalit|date=May 17, 2017|work=The New York Times|access-date=May 18, 2017|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
*[[November 26]] – [[Emilio D'Amore]], Italian writer, journalist, and politician (died [[2017 in literature|2017]])<ref>{{cite news|title=E' morto a 102 anni Emilio D'Amore, volto storico della destra irpina|url=http://www.irpinianews.it/e-morto-a-102-anni-emilio-damore-volto-storico-della-destra-irpina/|accessdate=21 October 2017|work=Irpinia News|date=21 October 2017|language=it}}</ref>
*[[December 6]] – [[Nilawan Pintong]], Thai writer (died [[2017 in literature|2017]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/1194661/star-literateur-khun-nilawan-passes-away-at-101|title=Star literateur Khun Nilawan passes away at 101|date=8 February 2017|newspaper=Bangkok Post|access-date=2017-02-08}}</ref>
*[[December 13]] – [[Ross Macdonald]], American-Canadian writer (died [[1983 in literature|1983]])
*[[December 22]] – [[David Martin (poet)|David Martin]], Hungarian-born Australian poet (died [[1997 in literature|1997]])
*[[December 27]] – [[John Cornford]], English poet (died [[1936 in literature|1936]])