1907 in literature

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The year 1907 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

• June 26 - Mark Twain receives an honorary doctorate of laws degree from Oxford University.
• James Joyce meets Ettore Schmitz for the first time.
• Elizabeth Bowen moves with her mother from Ireland to England.
• Deluxe edition of Margarete Böhme's Tagebuch einer Verlorenen published, marking 100,000 copies in print.

New books

• L. Frank Baum - Father Goose's Year Book
  • - Ozma of Oz
  • - Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad (as "Edith Van Dyne")
  • - Policeman Bluejay (as "Laura Bancroft")
• Arnold Bennett -The City of Pleasure
• André Billy - Benoni
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Dead Love Has Chains
• Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent
• Charles Derennes - Le Peuple du Pôle
• Jeffery Farnol - My Lady Caprice
• E. M. Forster - The Longest Journey
• Elinor Glyn - Three Weeks
• William Dean Howells - Through the Eye of the Needle
• Liu E - Lao Ts'an yu-chi (The Travels of Lao Ts'an)
• Arthur Machen - The Hill of Dreams
• Octave Mirbeau - La 628-E8
• Baroness Orczy - Beau Brocade
  • The Tangled Skein
• Beatrix Potter - The Tale of Tom Kitten
• Upton Sinclair - The Overman
• Edith Wharton - Madame de Treymes
• Owen Wister - The Seven Ages of Washington
• P. G. Wodehouse - Not George Washington
• Harold Bell Wright - The Shepherd of the Hills

New drama

• Georges Feydeau - A Flea in Her Ear
• John Millington Synge - The Playboy of the Western World

Poetry

• James Elroy Flecker - The Bridge of Fire
• Robert W. Service - The Songs of a Sourdough

Non-fiction

• John Millington Synge - The Aran Islands
• George Witton - Scapegoats of the Empire

Births

• February 1 - Günter Eich, German lyricist (died 1972)
• February 3 (probable) - James A. Michener, American novelist (died 1997)
• February 21 - W. H. Auden, English poet (died 1973)
• March 13 - Mircea Eliade, Romanian writer (died 1986)
• May 12 - Leslie Charteris, The Saint author (died 1993)
• May 13 - Daphne du Maurier, Cornish writer (died 1989)
• May 27 - Rachel Carson, American author of Silent Spring (died 1964)
• June 14 - René Char, French poet (died 1988)
• July 7 - Robert A. Heinlein, American author (died 1988)
• August 12 - Miguel Torga, Portuguese author (died 1995)
• August 17 - Roger Peyrefitte, French author (died 2000)
• August 28 - Rupert Hart-Davis, British editor and publisher (died 1999)
• September 23 - Pauline Réage, French erotic novelist (d. 1998)
• October 15 - Varian Fry, American journalist (died 1967)
• November 14 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author of children's books (died 2002)
• November 27 - L. Sprague de Camp, American science fiction and fantasy author (died 2000)
• November 28 - Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist (died 1990)
• November 28 - Mary Oppen, American poet, activist, photographer (died 1990)
• December 10 - Rumer Godden, English novelist (died 1998)
• December 18 - Christopher Fry, English dramatist (died 2005)

Deaths

• January 20 - Agnes Mary Clerke, English author on astronomy (born 1842)
• March 9 - Frederic George Stephens, critic and member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (born 1828)
• March 19 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, poet and novelist (born 1836)
• April 23 - André Theuriet, French poet and novelist (born 1833
• May 12 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (born 1848)
• July 17 - Hector Malot, French author (born 1830)
• July 19 - William Gunion Rutherford, Scottish classical commentator (born 1853)
• September 6 - Sully Prudhomme, French poet and essayist; 1st Nobel Prize winner (born 1839)
• September 7 - Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, Romanian philologist (born 1836)
• October 6 - David Masson, Scottish critic and biographer (born 1822)
• November 1 - Alfred Jarry, French dramatist (born 1873)
• November 28 - Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet and painter (born 1869)

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Rudyard Kipling