Editing 1912 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1912'''.
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==Events==
[[File:Craig Hamlet final scene photo.jpg|thumb|350px|[[Moscow Art Theatre production of Hamlet|Moscow Art Theatre production of ''Hamlet'']]]]
*[[January 5]] (December 23, 1911 [[Old Style and New Style dates|O.S.]]) – [[Konstantin Stanislavski]] and [[Edward Gordon Craig]]'s seminal symbolist [[Moscow Art Theatre production of Hamlet|Moscow Art Theater production of ''Hamlet'']] opens.
*[[January 21]] – [[Joseph Conrad]] achieves his first popular success as the ''[[New York Herald]]'' begins serializing his novel ''[[Chance (Conrad novel)|Chance]]''. He broke off with it in 1906, but sold the rights to the unfinished work in June 1911. Conrad continues to work on the book, while the first chapters appear weekly in the ''Herald''. He completes it on March 26.<ref>{{Cite book |first=Frederick R. |last=Karl |authorlink=Frederick R. Karl |title=A Reader's Guide to Joseph Conrad |publisher=Syracuse University Press |edition=Revised |year=1997 |isbn=0815604890 |page=236}}</ref>
*[[March 3]] – [[Frieda von Richthofen|Frieda Weekley]] meets [[D. H. Lawrence]] in [[Nottingham]].<ref>{{Cite ODNB |authorlink=John Worthen (literary critic) |first=John |last=Worthen |title=Lawrence, David Herbert (1885–1930) |year=2004 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34435 |accessdate=2013-02-25 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/34435}} </ref>
*[[April 14]]–[[April 15|15]] – The [[ocean liner]] {{RMS|Titanic}} strikes an [[iceberg]] and sinks on her maiden voyage from the United Kingdom to the United States.<ref>{{Cite book |authorlink=Walter Lord |first=Walter |last=Lord |title=[[A Night to Remember (book) |A Night to Remember]] |location=New York |publisher=Holt |year=1955}}</ref> American [[mystery writer]] [[Jacques Futrelle]], [[English people|English]] journalist and publisher [[William Thomas Stead]] and American bibliophile [[Harry Elkins Widener]] are among over 1500 dead. A copy of the ''[[Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam]]'' in a jeweled binding by [[Sangorski & Sutcliffe]] (1911) is also lost. The event leads to a flood of [[RMS Titanic in popular culture#Poems|poems]], including [[Thomas Hardy]]'s "[[The Convergence of the Twain]]".
*May – Following the death of [[Lie Kim Hok]] from [[typhus]] in [[Batavia, Dutch East Indies]], aged 58, [[Lauw Giok Lan]] takes on the work of completing his translations from the Dutch of Hugo Hartmann's ''Dolores, de Verkochte Vrouw'' into [[Sundanese language|Sundanese]] as ''Prampoean jang Terdjoewal'' and of ''Geneviève de Vadans'' as ''De Juffrouw van Gezelschap''.
*June – Under the name ''I. G. Ofir'', the Romanian poet [[Benjamin Fondane]] makes his publishing debut in the [[Iași]] magazine ''Floare Albastră'', put out by [[A. L. Zissu]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Daniel |first=Paul |editor-last=Fondane |editor-first=Benjamin |editor-link=Benjamin Fondane |title=Poezii |publisher=Editura Minerva |location=Bucharest |year=1978 |page=603 |chapter=Destinul unui poet |oclc=252065138}}</ref>
*[[August 10]] – [[Virginia Woolf|Virginia Stephen]] marries [[Leonard Woolf]] at [[St Pancras Town Hall]] in London.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/virginia-and-leonard-woolf-marry |title=Virginia and Leonard Woolf marry |work=This Day in History |date=1912-08-10 |publisher=History |accessdate=2012-01-11}}</ref> They honeymoon in [[Provence]], Spain and Italy before returning.
*[[September 21]] – [[Harley Granville-Barker]]'s production of [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[The Winter's Tale]]'' opens at the [[Savoy Theatre]], London, with simplified scenery, ensemble acting and naturalistic verse-speaking.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ea8xFP0Z5Q4C&q=twelfth&pg=PA149 James Woodfield, ''English Theatre in Transition, 1881-1914'', p. 147]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |first=Sydney |last=Higgins |title=Harley Granville Barker (1877-1946) |url=http://www.the-camerino-players.com/britishtheatre/GranvilleBarker.htm |work=The Golden Age of British Theatre (1880-1920) |year=2009 |accessdate=2013-12-05}}</ref>  It is replaced in November by his production of ''[[Twelfth Night]]''. 
*October
**[[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]' character [[Tarzan]] (Viscount Greystoke, raised as a [[feral child]] by the fictional [[Mangani]] [[great ape]]s) first appears in ''[[Tarzan of the Apes]]'' in the American [[pulp magazine]] ''[[Argosy (magazine)#The All-Story|The All-Story]]''.
**[[Sax Rohmer]]'s character [[Fu Manchu]] (a "[[Yellow Peril]]" master criminal) first appears in "The Zayat Kiss" in the English pulp magazine ''[[Story-Teller]]'', as the first installment of ''[[The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu]]''.
*[[October 12]] – [[Arthur Schnitzler]]'s play ''[[La Ronde (play)|La Ronde]]'' (''Reigen'', 1900) is first performed (without the author's consent), in [[Budapest]]. It is also first translated into French this year.
*[[October 25]] – The first issue of ''[[Simbolul]]'' is put out in [[Bucharest]] by [[Marcel Janco]], [[Tristan Tzara]] and [[Ion Vinea]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sandqvist |first=Tom |title=Dada East. The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire |publisher=MIT Press |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts & London |year=2006 |pages=72–73 |isbn=0-262-19507-0}}</ref>
*December? (or at latest January [[1913 in literature|1913]]) – ''A Slap in the Face of Public Taste'' (Пощёчина общественному вкусу), the seminal text of [[Russian Futurism]], is published as a manifesto and a poetry almanac.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Khlebnikov |first1=Velimir |authorlink1=Velimir Khlebnikov |last2=Schmidt |first2=Paul |authorlink2=Paul Schmidt (translator) |last3=Douglas |first3=Charlotte |title=Collected Works of Velimir Khlebnikov: Letters and Theoretical Writings |volume=1 |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge etc. |year=1987 |pages=17, 73 |isbn=0-262-19507-0}}</ref> Edited and written by [[David Burliuk]], [[Velimir Khlebnikov|Viktor Khlebnikov]], [[Aleksei Kruchenykh]] and [[Vladimir Mayakovsky]], it attacks the tradition of [[Russian Symbolism]], notably works by [[Leonid Andreyev]], [[Konstantin Balmont]], [[Alexander Blok]] and [[Ivan Bunin]], and ridicules independents such as [[Maxim Gorky]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Lawton |first1=Anna |last2=Eagle |first2=Herbert |title=Russian Futurism Through Its Manifestos, 1912–1928 |publisher=Cornell University Press |location=Ithaca; London |year=1988 |pages=51, 305–306 |isbn=0-8014-1883-6}}</ref>
*''unknown dates''
**The texts of 13 [[Sanskrit drama]]s, perhaps from the first centuries BCE and probably by [[Bhāsa]] (including the ''[[Svapnavasavadattam]]''), are found by the scholar [[T. Ganapati Sastri]] in a palm-leaf codex in [[Kerala]].<ref>{{Cite book |quote=the most important event in the twentieth century Sanskrit literary scholarship |year=1995 |title=History of Indian Literature |last=Das |first=Sisir Kumar |publisher=Sahitya Akademi |isbn=978-81-7201-798-9 |page=48 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sqBjpV9OzcsC&dq=Ganapati&pg=PA48}}</ref>
**Publication of the [[Loeb Classical Library]], [[parallel text]] editions of the classics begins at the London publisher [[Heinemann (publisher)|Heinemann]].<ref>{{cite book|author=William Henry Denham Rouse|title=Machines Or Mind?: An Introduction to the Loeb Classical Library|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CJICAAAAMAAJ|year=1912|publisher=W. Heinemann}}</ref>

==New books==
===Fiction===
*[[Mary Antin]] – ''The Promised Land''
*[[Arnold Bennett]] – ''The Matador of the Five Towns''
*[[E. F. Benson]] – '' Mrs. Ames''
*[[Rhoda Broughton]] – ''Between Two Stools''
*[[Mary Grant Bruce]] – ''Mates at Billabong''
*[[Ivan Bunin]] – ''[[Dry Valley (novel)|Dry Valley]]'' (Суходол, ''Sukhodo'l'')
*[[Willa Cather]] – ''[[Alexander's Bridge]]''
*[[J. Storer Clouston]] – ''[[The Mystery of Number 47]]''
*[[Joseph Conrad]] – ''[[The Secret Sharer]]''
*[[Grazia Deledda]] – ''Colombi e sparvieri'' (Pumpkins and Sparrows)
*[[Ethel M. Dell]] – ''The Way of an Eagle''<ref>{{Cite book |first=Q. D. |last=Leavis|authorlink=Q. D. Leavis |title=Fiction and the Reading Public |edition=rev. |location=London |publisher=Chatto & Windus |year=1965}}</ref>
*Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] – ''[[The Lost World (Conan Doyle novel)|The Lost World]]''
*[[Theodore Dreiser]]  – ''[[The Financier]]''
*[[Lord Dunsany]] – ''[[The Book of Wonder]]'' (short stories)
*[[Edna Ferber]] – ''Buttered Side Down''
*[[Anatole France]] – ''Les Dieux ont soif''
*[[R. Austin Freeman]]
**''The Mystery of 31 New Inn''
**''The Singing Bone''
*[[Kahlil Gibran]] – ''[[Broken Wings (Gibran novel)|The Broken Wings]] (Al-Ajniha al-Mutakassira)''
*[[Elinor Glyn]]
**''Halcyone''
**''Love Itself''
**''The Reasons Why''
*[[Sarah Grand]]  – ''Adam's Orchard''
*[[Zane Grey]] – ''[[Riders of the Purple Sage]]''
*[[Knut Hamsun]] – ''The Last Joy (Den sidste Glæde)''
*[[Gerhart Hauptmann]] – ''Atlantis''
*[[Felix Hollaender]] – ''[[The Oath of Stephan Huller (novel)|The Oath of Stephan Huller]]''
*[[Annie Fellows Johnston]] – ''Mary Ware's Promised Land''
*[[James Weldon Johnson]] – ''[[The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man]]''
*[[Franz Kafka]]
**''[[Contemplation (short story collection)|Contemplation]]'' (''Betrachtung'', short story collection, dated 1913)
**''[[The Judgement]] (Das Urteil)''
*[[Ada Leverson]] – ''Tenterhooks''
*[[D. H. Lawrence]] – ''[[The Trespasser (novel)|The Trespasser]]''
*[[Stephen Leacock]] – ''[[Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town]]''
*[[Sinclair Lewis]] (as Tom Graham) – ''Hike and the Aeroplane''
*[[:lt:Julijonas Lindė-Dobilas|Julijonas Lindė-Dobilas]] – ''Blūdas; arba Lietuva buvusios Rusijos revoliucijos mete'' (Rampage)
*[[Marie Belloc Lowndes]] – ''[[The Chink in the Armour]]''
*[[Oskar Luts]] – ''Kevade'' (Spring; part I)
*John MacCormick – ''[[Dùn Aluinn]]'' (in book form)
*[[Compton Mackenzie]] – ''[[Carnival (Mackenzie novel)|Carnival]]''
*[[Thomas Mann]] – ''[[Death in Venice]] (Der Tod in Venedig)''
*[[Katherine Mansfield]] – "[[How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped]]" (short story)
*[[Richard Barham Middleton]] – ''The Ghost Ship and Other Stories''
*[[E. Phillips Oppenheim]]
**''The Lighted Way''
**''The Tempting of Tavernake''
*[[Baroness Orczy]]
**''The Traitor''
**''The Good Patriots''
**''[[Fire in Stubble]]''
**''[[Meadowsweet (novel)|Meadowsweet]]''
*[[Henrik Pontoppidan]] – ''De dødes Rige'' (The Realm of the Dead; publication begins)
*[[Eleanor H. Porter]] – ''Miss Billy's Decision''
*[[Forrest Reid]] – ''Following Darkness''
*[[Willie Riley]] – ''[[Windyridge]]''
*[[Saki]] – ''[[The Unbearable Bassington]]''
*[[Henryk Sienkiewicz]] – ''[[In Desert and Wilderness]] (W pustyni i w puszczy)''
*[[Hjalmar Söderberg]] – ''[[The Serious Game]] (Den allvarsamma leken)''
*[[James Stephens (author)|James Stephens]] – ''[[The Crock of Gold (novel)|The Crock of Gold]]''
*[[Sui Sin Far]] – ''[[Mrs. Spring Fragrance]]''
*[[Leo Tolstoy]] (died [[1910 in literature|1910]]) – ''[[Hadji Murat (novel)|Hadji Murat]]'' (Хаджи-Мурат)
*[[Edgar Wallace]] – ''[[Private Selby]]''
*[[Hugh Walpole]] – ''The Prelude to Adventure''
*[[H. G. Wells]] – ''[[Marriage (novel)|Marriage]]''
*[[Percy F. Westerman]]
**''Captured at Tripoli''
**''The Flying Submarine''
**''The Quest of the Golden Hope''
**''The Sea Monarch''
*[[Edith Wharton]]  – ''[[The Reef (novel)|The Reef]]''
*[[P. G. Wodehouse]] – ''[[The Prince and Betty]]''
*[[Stefan Żeromski]] – ''[[The Faithful River]] (Wierna rzeka)''

===Children and young people===
*[[L. Frank Baum]]
**''[[Sky Island]]''
**''[[Phoebe Daring]]''
**''[[Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation]]'' (as Edith Van Dyne)
**''[[The Flying Girl|The Flying Girl and Her Chum]]'' (as Edith Van Dyne)
*[[Waldemar Bonsels]] – ''Die Biene Maja und ihre Abenteuer'' (Maya the Bee and her Adventures)
*[[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]
**''[[Tarzan of the Apes]]''
**''[[A Princess of Mars]]''
*[[Howard R. Garis]] – ''[[Uncle Wiggily]]'s Adventures''
*[[Jack London]]
**''[[A Son of the Sun (novel)|A Son of the Sun]]''
**''[[The Scarlet Plague]]''
*[[Lucy Maud Montgomery]] – ''[[Chronicles of Avonlea]]''
*[[E. Nesbit]] – ''[[The Magic World]]''
*[[Beatrix Potter]] – ''[[The Tale of Mr. Tod]]''
*[[Gerdt von Bassewitz]] – ''[[Little Peter's Journey to the Moon]] (Peterchens Mondfahrt)'' (as drama)
*[[Jean Webster]] – ''[[Daddy-Long-Legs (novel)|Daddy-Long-Legs]]''

===Drama===
<onlyinclude>
*[[Arnold Bennett]] – ''[[Milestones (play)|Milestones]]''
*[[Paul Claudel]] – ''[[:fr:L'Annonce faite à Marie|L'Annonce faite à Marie]]'' (The Tidings Brought to Mary, first performed)
*[[George Diamandy]] – ''Rațiunea de stat'' (The Reason of State)
*[[Dietrich Eckart]] – adaptation of [[Henrik Ibsen]]'s ''[[Peer Gynt]]''
*[[Louis Esson]] – ''[[The Time Is Not Yet Ripe]]''
*[[John Galsworthy]] – ''[[The Eldest Son]]''
*[[Hugo von Hofmannsthal]] – ''[[Everyman (15th-century play)|Everyman]]'', adapted as ''Jedermann''
*[[Stanley Houghton]] – ''[[The Younger Generation (play)|The Younger Generation]]''
*[[Georg Kaiser]] – ''[[From Morning to Midnight]] (Von Morgens bis Mitternachts)'' (written)
*[[Heinrich Mann]] – ''Die grosse Liebe'' (The Great Love, published)
*[[J. Hartley Manners]] – ''Peg o' My Heart''
*[[Louis N. Parker]] – ''[[Drake of England (play)|Drake of England]]''
*[[Arthur Schnitzler]] – ''[[Professor Bernhardi]]''
*[[George Bernard Shaw]] – ''[[Pygmalion (play)|Pygmalion]]'' (published)
*[[Githa Sowerby|G. K. Sowerby]] – ''[[Rutherford and Son]]''<ref>{{Cite book |title=[[The Social Significance of the Modern Drama]] |authorlink=Emma Goldman |last=Goldman |first=Emma |pages=235–249 |year=1914 |publisher=R. G. Badger |location=Boston |oclc=16225452}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |first=Mark |last=Brown |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2009/aug/14/githa-sowerby-playwright-rutherford-son |title=Githa Sowerby, the forgotten playwright, returns to the stage |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |date=2009-08-14 |accessdate=2013-02-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |work=[[BBC]] |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/tyne/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8217000/8217927.stm |title=Tyneside honours forgotten writer |date=2009-08-26 |accessdate=2013-02-25}}</ref></onlyinclude>
*[[Bayard Veiller]] – ''[[Within the Law (play)|Within the Law]]''
*[[I. C. Vissarion]] – ''Lupii'' (The Wolves, written)
*[[Frank Wedekind]] – ''Tod und Teufel'' (premieres in Berlin)

===Poetry===
{{Main|1912 in poetry}}
*[[Anna Akhmatova]] – ''Vecher'' (Evening)
*[[Edwin James Brady]]
**''Bells and Hobbles''
**''The King's Caravan''
*''[[Georgian Poetry]] 1911–12''
*[[Pauline Johnson]] – ''Flint and Feather''
*[[Amy Lowell]] – ''A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass''
*[[Rabindranath Tagore]] (writer and translator) – ''[[Gitanjali]] (Song Offerings)''

===Non-fiction===
*[[Hilaire Belloc]] – ''[[The Servile State]]''
*[[Arnold Bennett]] – ''[[Those United States]]''
*[[Alexander Berkman]] – ''[[Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist]]''
*[[David Burliuk]], [[Velimir Khlebnikov|Viktor Khlebnikov]], [[Aleksei Kruchenykh]], [[Vladimir Mayakovsky]] – ''A Slap in the Face of Public Taste (Пощёчина общественному вкусу)''
*[[Aleister Crowley]] – ''[[Magick (Book 4)]]''
*[[Albert Gleizes]] and [[Jean Metzinger]] – ''[[Du "Cubisme"]]''
*[[Henry H. Goddard]] – ''[[The Kallikak Family]]''
*[[Carl Jung]] – ''[[Psychology of the Unconscious]] (Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido)''
*[[Frigyes Karinthy]] – ''Így írtok ti'' (That's How ''You'' Write, literary parodies)
*[[Pierre Loti]] – ''Un Pèlerin d'Angkor'' (A Pilgrimage to Angkor)
*[[Donald Lowrie]] – ''My Life in Prison''
*[[Dumitru C. Moruzi]] – ''Pribegi în țară răpită''
*[[John Muir]] – ''The Yosemite''
*[[P. D. Ouspensky]] – ''Tertium Organum''
*[[Bertrand Russell]] – ''[[The Problems of Philosophy]]''
*[[Ernst Troeltsch]] – '' Die Soziallehren der christlichen Kirchen und Gruppen'' (The Sociology of the Christian Churches and Groups)

==Births==
*[[January 7]] – [[Charles Addams]], American cartoonist (died [[1988 in literature|1988]])
*[[January 15]] – [[Celia Dale]], English fiction writer and book reviewer (died [[2011 in literature|2011]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Contemporary Authors: First revision|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kHREAAAAMAAJ|year=1969|publisher=Gale Research Company|page=272}}</ref>
*[[January 28]] – [[Alison Adburgham]] (born Margaret Vere Alison Haig), English social historian and journalist (died [[1997 in literature|1997]])
*[[January 30]] – [[Barbara Tuchman]], American historian (died [[1989 in literature|1989]])
*[[February 10]] – [[Ena Lamont Stewart]], Scottish playwright (died [[2006 in literature|2006]])
*[[February 11]] – [[Roy Fuller]], English poet and novelist (died [[1991 in literature|1991]])
*[[February 12]] – [[R. F. Delderfield]], English novelist and playwright (died [[1972 in literature|1972]])
*[[February 15]] – [[George Mikes]], Hungarian-born English humorist (died [[1987 in literature|1987]])
*[[February 17]] – [[Andre Norton]], American sci-fi and fantasy author (died [[2005 in literature|2005]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Andre Norton |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/andre-norton-529308.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/andre-norton-529308.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |website=The Independent |accessdate=18 June 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
*[[February 20]] – [[Pierre Boulle]], French novelist (died [[1994 in literature|1994]])
*[[February 27]] – [[Lawrence Durrell]], English poet and novelist (died [[1990 in literature|1990]])
*[[March 7]] – [[Dora Oake Russell]], Newfoundland writer, diarist and journalist (died [[1986 in literature|1986]])
*[[March 12]] – [[Kylie Tennant]], Australian novelist, dramatist and historian (died [[1988 in literature|1988]])
*[[April 16]] – [[Garth Williams]], American children's writer and illustrator (died [[1996 in literature|1996]])
*[[April 24]] – [[Marta Rădulescu]], Romanian novelist and poet (died [[1959 in literature|1959]])
*[[May 3]] – [[May Sarton]], American writer (died [[1995 in literature|1995]])
*[[May 16]] – [[Studs Terkel]], American writer and broadcaster (died [[2008 in literature|2008]])
*[[May 20]] – [[J. L. Carr]], English novelist and publisher (died [[1994 in literature|1994]])
*[[May 27]] – [[John Cheever]], American writer (died [[1982 in literature|1982]])
*[[May 29]] – [[Pamela Hansford Johnson]], English poet, novelist and critic (died [[1981 in literature|1981]])
*[[June 20]] – [[Anthony Buckeridge]], English children's author (died [[2004 in literature|2004]])
*[[June 24]] – [[Mary Wesley]], English novelist (died [[2002 in literature|2002]])
*[[June 27]] – [[E. R. Braithwaite]], Guyanese-born novelist, teacher and diplomat (died [[2016 in literature|2016]])
*[[June 29]] – [[John Toland (author)|John Toland]], American Pulitzer Prize winning historian and biographer (died [[2004 in literature|2004]])
*[[July 3]] – [[Elizabeth Taylor (novelist)|Elizabeth Taylor]], English novelist (died [[1975 in literature|1975]])
*[[July 6]] – [[Heinrich Harrer]], Austrian explorer and author (died [[2006 in literature|2006]])
*[[July 14]] – [[Northrop Frye]], Canadian critic (died [[1991 in literature|1991]])
*[[July 17]] – [[Michael Gilbert]], English mystery and thriller novelist (died [[2006 in literature|2006]])
*[[August 4]] – [[Virgilio Piñera]], Cuban poet and short-story writer (died [[1979 in literature|1979]])
*[[August 10]] – [[Jorge Amado]], Brazilian writer (died [[2001 in literature|2001]])
*[[August 14]] – [[Erwin Strittmatter]], German writer (died [[1994 in literature|1994]])
*[[August 18]] – [[Elsa Morante]], Italian author (died [[1985 in literature|1985]])
*[[August 23]] – [[Nelson Rodrigues]], Brazilian author (died [[1980 in literature|1980]])
*c. [[September 5]] – [[Sesto Pals]], Romanian Israeli poet and philosopher (died [[2002 in literature|2002]])
*[[September 12]] – [[J. F. Hendry]], Scottish-born poet (died [[1986 in literature|1986]])
*[[September 24]] – [[Ian Serraillier]], English novelist and poet (died [[1994 in literature|1994]])
*[[October 31]] – [[Oscar Dystel]], American paperback publisher (died [[2014 in literature|2014]])
*[[November 8]] – [[Monica Edwards]], English children's author (died [[1998 in literature|1998]])
*[[November 12]] – [[Donagh MacDonagh]], Irish poet, playwright and judge (died [[1968 in literature|1968]])
*[[November 24]] – [[Garson Kanin]], American dramatist and screenwriter (died [[1999 in literature|1999]])
*[[November 25]] – [[Francis Durbridge]], English dramatist (died [[1998 in literature|1998]])
*[[November 26]] – [[Eugène Ionesco]], Romanian Absurdist playwright (died [[1994 in literature|1994]])
*[[December 4]] – [[Ian Wallace (author)|Ian Wallace]], English science fiction writer (died [[1998 in literature|1998]])

==Deaths==
*[[January 7]] – [[Sophia Jex-Blake]], English medical writer and pioneer female physician (born [[1840 in literature|1840]])<ref>Shirley Roberts, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34189 ‘Blake, Sophia Louisa Jex- (1840–1912)’], ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 11 Nov 2008</ref>
*[[January 24]] – [[James Allen (author)|James Allen]], English self-help writer and poet (born [[1864 in literature|1864]])
*[[January 27]] – [[Alexandre Bisson]], French playwright, vaudeville creator and novelist (born [[1848 in literature|1848]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Kurt Gänzl|title=The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre|publisher=Schirmer Books|year=1994|isbn=9780028655727|page=129}}</ref> 
*[[January 28]] – [[Gustave de Molinari]], Belgian economist (born [[1819 in literature|1819]])
*[[February 1]] – [[Florence Huntley]], American journalist, editor, humorist and occult author  (born [[1855 in literature|1855]])
*[[February 2]] – [[Annie Somers Gilchrist]], American author  (born [[1841 in literature|1841]])
*[[February 7]] – [[Edward Wilmot Blyden]], Liberian [[Pan-Africanism|pan-Africanist]] and President of [[Liberia College]] (born [[1832 in literature|1832]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_2005148.shtml|title=Edward Wilmot Blyden:- Father of Pan Africanism (August 3, 1832 to February 7, 1912)|publisher=Awareness Times (Sierra Leone)|date=2 August 2006|access-date=24 August 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051025073245/http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_2005148.shtml|archive-date=25 October 2005|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[February 8]] – [[Girish Chandra Ghosh]], Bengali poet, playwright and novelist (born [[1844 in literature|1844]])
*[[March 1]] – [[George Grossmith]], English comic singer and writer (born [[1847 in literature|1847]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Who's who in the Theatre|publisher=Pitman|year=1956|page=1573}}</ref>
*[[March 30]] – [[Karl May]], German novelist (born [[1842 in literature|1842]])<ref>{{cite web |author1=Simona Block |title=Karl May: Winnetou-Erfinder starb wohl an Bleivergiftung |url=http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/karl-may-winnetou-erfinder-starb-wohl-an-bleivergiftung-a-1084736.html |website=[[Der Spiegel]] |access-date=28 November 2018 |date=30 March 2016}}</ref>
*[[April 6]] – [[Giovanni Pascoli]], Italian poet (born [[1855 in literature|1855]])
*[[April 10]] – [[Gabriel Monod]], French historian (born [[1844 in literature|1844]])
*[[April 15]] – In the wreck of {{RMS|Titanic}}
**[[Jacques Futrelle]], American author (born [[1875 in literature|1875]])
**[[William Thomas Stead]], English journalist (born [[1849 in literature|1849]])
*[[April 20]] – [[Bram Stoker]], Irish novelist and theatre manager (born [[1847 in literature|1847]])
*[[May 5]] – [[Rafael Pombo]], Colombian mathematician and poet (born [[1833 in literature|1833]])
*[[May 6]] – [[Lie Kim Hok]], Chinese writer, teacher and translator (born [[1853 in literature|1853]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Leo Suryadinata|title=Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume I & II|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v9QEBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA568|year=2012|publisher=Institute of Southeast Asian Studies|isbn=978-981-4345-21-7|pages=568}}</ref>
*[[May 14]] – [[August Strindberg]], Swedish dramatist (born [[1849 in literature|1849]])
*[[May 19]] – [[Bolesław Prus]], Polish novelist (born [[1847 in literature|1847]])
*[[June 4]] – [[Eliza Archard Conner]], American writer (born [[1838 in literature|1838]])
*[[June 13]] – [[Alice Diehl]], English novelist and concert pianist (born [[1844 in literature|1844]])
*[[July 20]] – [[Andrew Lang]], Scottish poet, novelist and critic (born [[1844 in literature|1844]])
*[[July 24]] – [[Addison Peale Russell]], American essayist (born [[1826 in literature|1826]])
*[[July 25]] – [[Anthony E. Wills]], American playwright, novelist and theatrical producer (born [[1879 in literature|1879]])<ref>{{cite journal|title=Obituary: Anthony E. Wills|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=August 2, 1912|volume= 27|issue= 9|page=15}}</ref>
*[[August 13]] – [[Horace Howard Furness]], American Shakespeare scholar (born [[1833 in literature|1833]])
*[[August 29]] – [[Theodor Gomperz]], Austrian philosopher (born [[1832 in literature|1832]])
*[[September 5]] – [[Bertha Jane Grundy]], English novelist (born [[1837 in literature|1837]])
*[[September 9]] – [[Berta Behrens]], German novelist (born [[1850 in literature|1850]])
*[[October 21]] – [[Robert Barr (writer)|Robert Barr]], Scottish Canadian short story writer and novelist (born [[1849 in literature|1849]])
*[[November 30]] – [[Dharmavaram Ramakrishnamacharyulu]], Telugu dramatist (born [[1853 in literature|1853]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Ponangi Sri Rama Apparao|title=Dharmavaram Ramakrishnamacharyulu|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aPoVGysfFhIC&pg=PA20|year=1994|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-7201-771-2|pages=20}}</ref>
*[[December 9]] – [[Louis de Gramont]], French journalist, dramatist and librettist (born 1855)
*[[December 19]] – [[Mir Mosharraf Hossain]], Bengali novelist, playwright and essayist  (born 1847)
*[[December 20]] – [[Lucy Morris Chaffee Alden]], American author, educator and hymnwriter (born [[1836 in literature|1836]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Standard Certificate of Death |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DYVQ-8SZ?i=1511&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AN46W-MVW |website=familysearch.org |access-date=27 August 2022}}</ref>

==Awards==
*[[Newdigate Prize]]: William Chase Greene, "Richard I Before Jerusalem"<ref>{{cite book|title=Advance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TIE0AQAAMAAJ|year=1914|publisher=Congregational Publishing Society|page=168}}</ref>
*[[Nobel Prize for Literature]]: [[Gerhart Hauptmann]]
*[[Prix Goncourt]]: [[André Savignon]], "Les filles de la pluie"<ref>{{cite book|author=André Savignon|title=With Plymouth Through Fire: A Documentary Narrative of 1940-1941|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6bWfAAAAMAAJ|year=1968|publisher=S. E. Ouston|isbn=978-0-900880-15-5|page=2}}</ref>

==References==
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