1912 In Literature

Events

New books

• The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - James Weldon Johnson
• Adnams Orchard - Sarah Grand
• Alexander's Bridge - Willa Cather
• Bells and Hobbles (poetry) - Edwin James Brady
• Between two stools - Rhoda Broughton
• The Crock of Gold - James Stephens
• Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
• The Financier - Theodore Dreiser
• The King's Caravan (poetry) - Edwin James Brady
• Marriage - H. G. Wells
• Mrs. Spring - Sui-Sin Far
• A Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
• The Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
• The Promised - Land Mary Antin
• The Reef - Edith Wharton
• Riders of the Purple Sage - Zane Grey
• The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad
• Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town - Stephen Leacock
• Theory of Psychoanalysis - Carl Jung
• The Unbearable Bassington - Saki

Births

• January 7 - Charles Addams, cartoonist (d. 1988)
• January 14 - Rudolf Hagelstange, German lyricist, narrator and essayist (d. 1984)
• January 30 - Barbara W. Tuchman, historian (d. 1989)
• February 11 - Roy Fuller English poet/novelist (d. 1991)
• February 12 - R. F. Delderfield, novelist and historian (d. 1972)
• February 20 - Pierre Boulle, author (d. 1994)
• May 3 - May Sarton, American writer (d. 1995)
• May 27 - John Cheever, writer (d. 1982)
• November 26 - Eugne Ionesco, playwright (d. 1994)

Deaths

• April 15 Jacques Futrelle, American author, died on the RMS Titanic
• April 20 - Bram Stoker, author
• May 14 - August Strindberg, dramatist

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Nils Gustaf Daln

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