1901 In Literature

Events

• First Nobel Prize for Literature awarded.
• October 23 - Mark Twain receives an honorary doctor of literature degree from Yale University.
• October - Mark Twain moves to Riverdale, New York
• The Three Sisters drama by Anton Chekov
• Gilbert Keith Chesterton marries Frances Blogg.
• Kim by Rudyard Kipling is published.

New books

• The Aerial Village - Jules Verne
• La Becque - Ren Boylesve
• Bubu de Montparnasse - Charles-Louis Philippe
• Claudine Paris - Colette
• The Crisis - Winston Churchill
• The Eternal City - Hall Caine
• The House with the Green Shutters - George Douglas
• Kim - Rudyard Kipling
• My Brilliant Career - Miles Franklin
• The Octopus - Frank Norris
• Travail - Emile Zola
• Sister Theresa - George Moore (novelist)
• Up from Slavery - Booker T. Washington

Births

• January 31 - Marie Luise Kaschnitz, writer (d. 1974)
• April 10 - Anna Kavan, author
• December 16 - Margaret Mead, cultural anthropologist and author (d. 1978)

Deaths

• June 9 - Walter Besant, novelist
• June 10 - Robert Buchanan, writer
• July 7 - Johanna Spyri, author

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Sully Prudhomme

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