1918 In Literature

Events

• First Pulitzer Prizes awarded
• Author Hall Caine made a KBE.
• The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington is published.

New books

• - Guillaume Apollinaire
• Colas Breugnon - Romain Rolland
• Edgewater People - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• Eminent Victorians - Lytton Strachey
• Hope's Highway - Sarah Lee Brown Fleming
• I Have Killed - Blaise Cendrars
• The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington
• The Marne - Edith Wharton
• My ntonia - Willa Cather
• The Severed Hand - Blaise Cendrars
• The War and Elizabeth - Mary Augusta Ward
• A Writer's Recollections - Mary Augusta Ward
• The Young Diana - Marie Corelli

Births

• January 16
• Stirling Silliphant, writer, producer (+ 1996)
• Philip José Farmer, science fiction writer
• February 1 - Dame Muriel Spark, author
• February 6 - Lothar-Gnther Buchheim, author of Das Boot
• March 9 - Mickey Spillane, mystery writer
• October 19 - Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher
• November 29 - Madeleine L'Engle, author of books for children & teens
• December 11 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer

Deaths

• June 10 - Arrigo Boito, poet and composer
• November 4 - Wilfred Owen, poet
• November 9 - Guillaume Apollinaire, poet

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: not awarded
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Jesse Lynch Williams, Why Marry?
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Sara Teasdale: Love Songs
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Ernest Poole - His Family

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