Editing 1911 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1911'''.
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==Events==
*January – The journal ''[[Ay Qap]]'' begins monthly publication in Arabic script in [[Troitsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast|Troitsk]], to promote modern [[Kazakh literature]] and progressive thought.
*February–March – Antisemitic riots break out in [[Paris]] over the staging of [[Henri Bernstein]]'s ''Après moi'' by the [[Comédie-Française]],<ref>{{Cite news |date=1911-03-06 |title=Riots in Paris. Unpopular Theatrical Production |newspaper=[[The Mercury (Hobart)|The Mercury]] |page=5 |location=Hobart}}</ref> instigated by the far-right ''[[Action Française]]'' led by writer [[Charles Maurras]], but in conjunction with the far-left ''[[La Guerre Sociale|Guerre Sociale]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Passmore |first=Kevin |title=The Right in France from the Third Republic to Vichy |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |year=2013 |page=174 |isbn=978-0-19-965820-6}}</ref>
*March
** [[Filippo Tommaso Marinetti]] in Paris plans a [[Futurism|Futurist]] conference and publishes a manifesto, ''Le futurisme'', at Sansot.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bribuega |first=Jaime |editor=De Felice, Renzo |editor-link=Renzo De Felice |title=Futurismo, cultura e politica |publisher=Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli |location=Turin |year=1988 |page=413 |chapter=Futurismo, ultraismo e culture politiche nell'area ispanica |isbn=88-7860-016-4}}</ref>
** Publication in ''[[The Strand Magazine]]'' (London) of the [[P. G. Wodehouse]] short story "Absent Treatment" introducing the character [[Reggie Pepper]], a prototype for [[Bertie Wooster]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Wodehouse|first=P. G.|title=P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters|publisher=W. W. Norton & Co|year=2013|editor-last=Ratcliffe|editor-first=Sophie|page=74|isbn=978-0786422883}}</ref>
*[[March 29]] – The [[1911 New York State Capitol fire]] in [[Albany, New York|Albany]] destroys 700,000 books and documents belonging to the [[New York State Library]].<ref>{{Cite news|first=Jeff|last=Wilkin|title=1911 fire at state Capitol left hole in cultural heritage|url=https://dailygazette.com/2011/03/27/0327_capitolfire/|date=2011-03-27|access-date=2021-09-29|work=The Daily Gazette|location=Schenectady}}</ref>
*April – [[Hugo Gernsback]] begins to publish his pioneering [[science fiction]] novel ''[[Ralph 124C 41+]]'' in the monthly U.S. magazine ''[[Modern Electrics]]''.
*c. April 8 – The English poet [[Lascelles Abercrombie]] and his family move near [[Dymock]] in rural [[Gloucestershire]], as the first of the [[Dymock poets]].<ref>{{Cite web |first=Jeff |last=Cooper |title=Timeline of the Dymock Poets |publisher=Friends of the Dymock Poets |url=http://www.dymockpoets.org.uk/Timeline.htm |access-date=2014-07-03}}</ref>
*[[May 9]] – The works of [[Gabriele D'Annunzio]] are placed in the [[Index of Forbidden Books]] by the [[Holy See|Vatican]].
*[[May 31]] – The French publishers [[Éditions Gallimard]] is founded in Paris by [[Gaston Gallimard]] as ''Les Éditions de la [[Nouvelle Revue Française]]'' (nrf). Its first publication is [[Paul Claudel]]'s play ''[[L'Otage]]''.
*Summer – [[Jaroslav Hašek]] begins publishing stories of ''[[The Good Soldier Švejk]]'' (''Dobrý voják Švejk'') in the [[Prague]] newspaper ''Karikatura'', edited by the illustrator [[Josef Lada]].
*[[September 7]] – Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, writing as "[[Guillaume Apollinaire]]", is suspected in the theft of the ''[[Mona Lisa]]'' from the [[Louvre]] museum in Paris on August 21 and imprisoned for six days. This year he publishes his first book of poetry, ''Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d'Orphée''.<ref name=pa20cfv>{{Cite book |editor=Auster, Paul |title=The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets |location=New York |publisher=Random House |year=1982 |isbn=0-394-52197-8 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/randomhousebooko00aust}}</ref>
*[[October 16]] – The new building for the [[Mitchell Library]] opens in [[Glasgow]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Lord Rosebery On Books: The Mitchell Library in Glasgow |newspaper=[[The Times]] |location=London |date=1911-10-17 |page=4 |issue=39718}}</ref>
*[[October 17]] – Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen, the later German novelist [[Hans Fallada]], kills his best friend in a suicide pact staged as a duel.
*November
**The [[Kalem Company]] of [[New York City|New York]] agrees to pay the estate of author [[Lew Wallace]] $25,000 for having adapted [[Ben Hur (1907 film)|''Ben Hur'' (1907 film)]] from [[Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ|his novel]] without securing prior rights.
**[[Virginia Stephen]] begins to share her brother [[Adrian Stephen]]'s London house at 38 [[Brunswick Square]] with other members of the [[Bloomsbury Group]]: [[Leonard Woolf]] (her future husband), [[John Maynard Keynes]] and [[Duncan Grant]].<ref>Chronology in [[Oxford World's Classics]] editions of her works.</ref>
*[[December 16]] – The U.K. [[Copyright Act 1911|Copyright Act]] consolidates [[copyright]] law in the [[British Empire]] and confirms the six libraries to which a copy of every book published in the U.K. must be deposited by the publisher: the [[British Library|British Museum Library]] (London); the [[Bodleian Library]] (Oxford); the [[Advocates Library]] (Edinburgh); the [[National Library of Wales]] (Aberystwyth); [[Trinity College Dublin]]; and [[Cambridge University Library]].

==New books==
===Fiction===
*[[Pío Baroja]]
**''Las inquietudes de Shanti Andía''
**''[[The Tree of Knowledge (novel)|The Tree of Knowledge]] (El árbol de la ciencia)''
*[[Lima Barreto]] – ''[[Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma]]'' (The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma)
*[[Max Beerbohm]] – ''[[Zuleika Dobson]]''
*[[Hilaire Belloc]] – ''[[The Four Men: a Farrago]]''
*[[Arnold Bennett]] – ''[[The Card]]''
*[[J. D. Beresford]] – ''[[The Hampdenshire Wonder]]''
*[[Ambrose Bierce]] – ''[[The Devil's Dictionary]]''
*[[Algernon Blackwood]] – ''[[The Centaur]]''
*[[J. E. Casely-Hayford]] – ''[[Ethiopia Unbound]]''
*[[Katharine Hopkins Chapman]] - ''[[The Fusing Force]]''
*[[G. K. Chesterton]] – ''[[The Innocence of Father Brown]]''
*[[Hugh Clifford (colonial administrator)|Hugh Clifford]] – ''The Downfall of the Gods''
*[[Joseph Conrad]] – ''[[Under Western Eyes (novel)|Under Western Eyes]]''
*[[Marie Corelli]] – ''[[Life Everlasting (Corelli novel)|Life Everlasting]]''
*[[Warwick Deeping]] - ''[[Fox Farm (novel)|Fox Farm]]''
*[[Penelope Delta]] – ''Paramythi Horis Onoma'' (A Tale Without a Name)
*[[Theodore Dreiser]] – ''[[Jennie Gerhardt]]''
*[[W. E. B. Du Bois]] – ''The Quest of the Silver Fleece''
*[[Edna Ferber]] – ''Dawn O'Hara''
*[[Ford Madox Ford]] – ''[[Ladies Whose Bright Eyes]]''
*[[E. M. Forster]] – ''[[The Celestial Omnibus]]''
*[[R. Austin Freeman]] – ''The Eye of Osiris''
*[[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]] – ''[[Moving the Mountain (novel)|Moving the Mountain]]''
*[[Anna Katharine Green]] – ''Initials Only''
* [[Ian Hay]] – ''[[A Safety Match (novel)|A Safety Match]]''
*[[Robert Hichens (writer)|Robert Hichens]] – ''[[The Fruitful Vine (novel)|The Fruitful Vine]]''
*[[Violet Jacob]] – ''Flemington''
*[[Pauline Johnson]] – ''Legends of Vancouver''
*[[Mary Johnston]] – ''The Long Roll''
*[[Eduard von Keyserling]] – ''[[Wellen (novel)|Wellen]]''
*[[Valery Larbaud]] – ''[[Fermina Márquez]]''
*[[D. H. Lawrence]] – ''[[The White Peacock]]''
*[[Stephen Leacock]] – ''Nonsense Novels''
*[[Gaston Leroux]]
**''Balaoo''
**''[[The Phantom of the Opera (novel)|The Phantom of the Opera]]'' (''Le Fantôme de l'Opéra'', book publication)
*[[William John Locke]] — ''[[The Glory of Clementina Wing]]''
*[[Katherine Mansfield]] – ''[[In a German Pension]]'' (short stories) 
*[[John Masefield]]
**''Jim Davis; or, The Captive of Smugglers''
**''The Street of Today''
*[[A. E. W. Mason]] – ''[[Miranda of the Balcony]]''
* [[E. Phillips Oppenheim]] – ''[[The Temptation of Tavernake]]''
*[[Mori Ōgai]] (森 鷗外) – ''[[The Wild Geese (Mori novel)|The Wild Geese]]'' (雁, ''Gan'', serialization begins)
*[[Baroness Orczy]] – ''[[A True Woman]]''
*[[Forrest Reid]] – ''The Bracknels''
*[[Ameen Rihani]] – ''[[The Book of Khalid]]''
*[[Saki]] – ''[[The Chronicles of Clovis]]''
*[[Una Lucy Silberrad]]
**''The Affairs of John Bolsover''
**''Sampson Rideout, Quaker''
*[[Preah Botumthera Som]] – ''Dik ram phka ram'' (The Dancing Water and the Dancing Flower)
*[[Bram Stoker]] – ''[[The Lair of the White Worm]]''
*[[Gene Stratton-Porter]] – ''[[The Harvester]]''
*[[Kathleen Thompson Norris]] – ''Mother''
*[[Sigrid Undset]] – ''[[Jenny (novel)|Jenny]]''
*[[Hugh Walpole]] – ''[[Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill (novel)|Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill]]''
*[[Mary Augusta Ward]] – ''[[The Case of Richard Meynell]]''
*[[H. G. Wells]] – ''[[The New Machiavelli]]''
*[[Edith Wharton]] – ''[[Ethan Frome]]''
*[[Owen Wister]] – ''Padre Ignacio''
*[[Jerzy Żuławski]] – ''Stara Ziemia'' (The Old Earth), last of the ''[[Trylogia Księżycowa]]'' (Lunar Trilogy)

===Children and young people===
*[[Victor Appleton]] - ''Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice''
*[[J. M. Barrie]] – ''[[Peter and Wendy]]'' (later editions ''Peter Pan and Wendy'')
*[[L. Frank Baum]] 
**''[[The Sea Fairies]]''
**''[[The Daring Twins]]''
**''[[Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John]]'' (as Edith Van Dyne)
**''[[The Flying Girl]]'' (as Edith Van Dyne)
*[[Frances Hodgson Burnett]] – ''[[The Secret Garden]]''
*[[L. M. Montgomery]] – ''[[The Story Girl]]''
*[[Ferenc Móra]] – ''Mindenki Jánoskája'' (Johnny to Everyone)
*[[Lucy Fitch Perkins]] – ''Dutch Twins'' (first in the Twins series)
*[[Beatrix Potter]] – ''[[The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes]]''
*[[Jean Webster]] – ''[[Just Patty]]''

===Drama===
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*[[Hugo Ball]] – ''Die Nase des Michelangelo. Tragikomödie in vier Auftritten''
*[[Tristan Bernard]] – ''[[The Little Cafe (play)|The Little Cafe]] (Le petit café)''
*[[Hall Caine]] – ''The Quality of Mercy'' (Also known as ''The Unwritten Law''; a new version of ''Jan the Icelander'')
*[[George Diamandy]] – ''Dolorosa''
*[[St. John Greer Ervine]] – ''[[Mixed Marriage (play)|Mixed Marriage]]''
*[[A. de Herz]]
**''Biruința'' (Victory)
**''Când ochii plâng'' (When Eyes Shed Tears)
*[[Edward Knoblock]] – ''Kismet''
*[[Gregorio Martínez Sierra]]
**''Canción de cuna'' (Cradle Song)
**''Primavera en otoño'' (Spring in Autumn)
* [[Charles McEvoy]] – ''[[All That Matters (play)|All That Matters]]''
*[Mrs] Clifford Mills – ''[[Where the Rainbow Ends]]''
*[[Emma Orczy]] – ''The Duke's Wager''
*[[Louis N. Parker]] – ''[[Disraeli (play)|Disraeli]]''
*[[Rainis]] – ''Indulis un Ārija'' (Indulis and Ārija)
*[[Arthur Schnitzler]] – ''Das weite Land'' (The Vast Domain, The Distant Land, or Undiscovered Country)
*[[George Bernard Shaw]] – ''[[Fanny's First Play]]''
*[[Karl Vollmöller]] – ''[[The Miracle (play)|The Miracle]] (Das Mirakel)''
*[[Hugo von Hofmannsthal]] – ''[[Jedermann (play)|Jedermann]]''
*[[W. B. Yeats]] – ''[[The Countess Cathleen]]'' (adapted for performance)</onlyinclude>

===Poetry===
{{Main article|1911 in poetry}}
*[[Edwin James Brady]] – ''River Rovers''
*[[Else Lasker-Schüler]] – ''Meine Wunder''
*[[John Masefield]] – ''[[The Everlasting Mercy]]''

===Non-fiction===
*[[Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition|''Encyclopædia Britannica'' Eleventh Edition]].
*[[Wassily Kandinsky]] – ''Über das Geistige in der Kunst'' (Concerning the Spiritual in Art; dated 1912)
*[[Walter John Kilner]] – ''The Human Atmosphere''
*[[Jack London]] – ''[[The Cruise of the Snark]]''
*[[Filippo Tommaso Marinetti]] – ''Le futurisme''
*[[Robert Michels]] – ''[[Political Parties (book)|Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy]] (Zur Soziologie des Parteiwesens in der modernen Demokratie; Untersuchungen über die oligarchischen Tendenzen des Gruppenlebens)''
*[[George Moore (novelist)|George Moore]] – ''Ave'' (part 1 of his three-volume autobiography, ''Hail and Farewell'')<ref>{{cite book|author=Norman A. Jeffares|title=W.B. Yeats|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F77RAvreVGMC&pg=PA172|date=17 June 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-21231-4|pages=172}}</ref>
*[[John Muir]] – ''My First Summer in the Sierra''
*R. Scott-Moncrieff (editor) – ''The Household Book of [[Lady Grisell Baillie]], 1692–1733''
*[[C. T. Onions]] – ''A Shakespeare Glossary''
*Percy Simpson – ''Shakespearean Punctuation''
*[[Rudolf Steiner]] – ''Mystics of the Renaissance'' (English translation)
*[[Evelyn Underhill]] – ''Mysticism: A Study of the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness''
*[[A. E. Waite]]
**''The Pictorial Key to the Tarot''
**''The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry''

==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]])

==Deaths==
*[[January 23]] – [[David Graham Phillips]], American journalist and novelist (murdered, born [[1867 in literature|1867]])
*[[February 25]] – [[Friedrich Spielhagen]], German novelist, literary theorist and translator (born [[1829 in literature|1829]])
*[[March 7]] – [[Antonio Fogazzaro]], Italian novelist (born [[1842 in literature|1842]])
*[[April 14]] – [[George Cary Eggleston]], American memoirist (born [[1839 in literature|1839]])
*[[April 25]] – [[Emilio Salgari]], Italian adventure novelist (suicide, born [[1862 in literature|1862]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.italica.rai.it/eng/principal/topics/bio/salgari.htm|first=Francesco|last=Troiano|title=Biography of Emilio Salgari|publisher=Italica Rai|access-date=2009-04-30|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080609111653/https://www.italica.rai.it/eng/principal/topics/bio/salgari.htm|archive-date=2008-06-09}}</ref> 
*[[April 30]] – [[Stanisław Brzozowski (writer)|Stanisław Brzozowski]], Polish philosopher, publicist and critic (tuberculosis, born [[1878 in literature|1878]])
*[[May 1]] – [[Hannah Whitall Smith]], American Quaker author (born [[1832 in literature|1832]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Marie Henry|title=The Secret Life of Hannah Whitall Smith|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_wXnAAAAMAAJ|year=1984|publisher=Chosen Books|isbn=978-0-310-60790-8|page=166}}</ref>
*[[May 9]] – [[Thomas Wentworth Higginson]], American writer, abolitionist and advocate of women's suffrage (born [[1823 in literature|1823]])
*[[May 29]] – [[W. S. Gilbert]], English librettist, dramatist and comic poet (born [[1836 in literature|1836]])
*[[June 7]] – [[Henry Abbey]], American poet (born [[1842 in literature|1842]])
*[[June 10]] – [[Adolf Wilbrandt]], German novelist and dramatist (born [[1837 in literature|1837]])
*[[June 14]] – [[Charlotte O'Conor Eccles]], Irish-born London writer, translator and journalist (born [[1863 in literature|1863]])
*[[July 21]] – [[Philippe Monnier]], Swiss writer in French (born [[1864 in literature|1864]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/fr/articles/015951/2014-08-04/|title=Monnier, Philippe|website=Dictionnaire Historique de la Suisse|language=fr|access-date=10 January 2021}}</ref>
*[[September 4]] – [[John Francon Williams]], Welsh-born writer, historian, and cartographer (born [[1854 in literature|1854]])
*[[September 5]] – [[Katherine Thurston]], Irish novelist (born [[1875 in literature|1875]])
*[[September 9]] – [[Francis March]], American lexicographer and philologist (born [[1825 in literature|1825]])
*[[September 23]] – [[John Arthur Barry]], English author and journalist (born [[1850 in literature|1850]])
*[[October 6]] – [[Martha D. Lincoln]] ("Bessie Beech"), American author and journalist (born [[1838 in literature|1838]])
*[[October 8]] – [[Hesba Stretton]] (Sarah Smith), English children's writer (born [[1832 in literature|1832]])
*[[October 29]] – [[Joseph Pulitzer]], Hungarian-born American journalist and publisher (born [[1847 in literature|1847]])
*[[November 9]] – [[Howard Pyle]], American children's author (born [[1853 in literature|1853]])
*[[December 1]] – [[Richard Barham Middleton]], English poet and fiction writer (born [[1882 in literature|1882]])
*[[December 22]] – [[Catharine H. T. Avery]], American author, editor, and educator (born [[1844 in literature|1844]])
*[[December 13]] – [[John Strange Winter|Henrietta Stannard]], English novelist (writing as John Strange Winter, born [[1856 in literature|1856]])
*[[December 29]] – [[Rosamund Marriott Watson]], English poet (born [[1860 in literature|1860]])

==Awards==
*[[Newdigate Prize]]: Roger Heath, "Achilles"<ref>{{cite book|author=Roger Meyrick Heath|title=Achilles: The Newdigate Prize Poem, 1911|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1go1AAAAMAAJ|year=1911|publisher=B. H. Blackwell}}</ref>
*[[Nobel Prize for Literature]]: [[Maurice Maeterlinck]], Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist
*[[Prix Goncourt]]: [[Alphonse de Châteaubriant]], ''[[Monsieur des Lourdines]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Alphonse de Châteaubriant|title=Procès posthume d'un visionnaire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j5HBpltpQkUC&pg=PA4|year=1987|publisher=Nouvelles Editions Latines|isbn=978-2-7233-0334-7|pages=4}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
*[http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/books/book-reviews/100_years_on_the_best_books_of_1911_1_2023350 "100 years on: The best books of 1911"], Stuart Kelly, ''The Scotsman'', 24 December 2011

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