1906 In Literature

Events

• December 24 - Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio program, a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech, broadcasts

New books

• Amitabha - Paul Carus
• Beyond the Rocks - Elinor Glyn
• Botchan - Natsume Sōseki
• The Education of Henry Adams - Henry Adams
• Fenwick's Career - Mary Augusta Ward
• The House of Souls - Arthur Machen
• In the Days of the Comet - H. G. Wells
• Joseph Vance - William de Morgan
• The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
• King Paradox - Pio Baroja
• Lady Baltimore - Owen Wister
• Men At War - Frank Thiess
• The Man Who Was Thursday - G. K. Chesterton
• The Mirror of the Sea - Joseph Conrad
• My Dead Life - George Moore (novelist)
• A Night in the Luxembourg - Remy de Gourmont
• Prisoners - Mary Cholmondeley
• Romance Island - Zona Gale
• The Spoilers - Rex Beach
• What is Man? - Mark Twain
• The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgerson - Selma Lagerlf

Births

• January 22 - Robert E. Howard, American fantasy author (d. 1936)
• January 23 - Anya Seton, American romantic author (d. 1990)
• April 13 - Samuel Beckett, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1969
• October 10 - R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
• October 14 - Hannah Arendt, German/US intellectual

Deaths

• February 9 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet
• April 11 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher
• May 23 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Giosu Carducci

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