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The year 1908 in literature involved some significant new books.
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Events
- June 18 - Mark Twain purchases a house in Redding, Connecticut.
New books
- Leonid Andreyev - The Seven Who Were Hanged
- Francis Aveling - Arnoul the Englishman
- L. Frank Baum - Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
- - Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville (as "Edith Van Dyne")
- Arnold Bennett - Buried Alive
- Algernon Blackwood - John Silence, Physician Extraordinary
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon - During Her Majesty's Pleasure
- Rhoda Broughton - Mamma
- G. K. Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday
- Louisa Cooke Don Carlos - A Battle in the Smoke
- Marie Corelli - Holy Orders
- Anatole France - Penguin Island
- E. M. Forster - A Room with a View
- John Fox, Jr. - The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - The Shoulders of Atlas
- Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows
- Jeannie Gunn - We of the Never Never
- William Hope Hodgson - The House on the Borderland
- Jack London - The Iron Heel
- W. Somerset Maugham - The Magician
- Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables
- Baroness Orczy - The Elusive Pimpernel
- Beatrix Potter - The Tale of Jemina Puddle-Duck
- Mary Roberts Rinehart - The Circular Staircase
- Arthur Schnitzler - Der Weg ins Freie
- Mary Augusta Ward - The Testing of Diana Mallory
- H. G. Wells - A Modern Utopia
New drama
- Maurice Maeterlinck - The Blue Bird
- Octave Mirbeau - Home
- Emma Orczy -Beau Brocade
- Edward Sheldon - Salvation Nell
- J.M. Synge - The Tinker's Wedding
Poetry
- Edward Carpenter - Iolaus: Anthology of Friendship
- W. H. Davies - Nature Poems
Non-fiction
- Sarah Bernhardt - My Double Life
- G. K. Chesterton - All Things Considered
- Jack London - War of the Classes
Births
- January 9 - Simone de Beauvoir, feminist philosopher (d. 1986)
- January 18 - Jacob Bronowski, scientist and poet (d. 1974)
- February 8 - Emil Staiger, scientist of literature (d. 1987)
- February 11 - Sutan Takdir Alishahbana, Indonesian linguist and author
- February 29 - Dee Brown, novelist and historian (d. 2002)
- March 6 - Dame Felicitas Corrigan, Benedictine author (d. 2003)
- March 22 - Louis L'Amour, author (d. 1988)
- May 17 - Frederic Prokosch, novelist and poet (d. 1989)
- May 25 - Theodore Roethke, American poet (d. 1963)
- May 28 - Ian Fleming, author (d. 1964)
- August 21 - M. M. Kaye, Far Pavilions author (d. 2004)
- September 4 - Richard Wright, author (d. 1960)
- September 17 - John Creasey, author (d. 1973)
- October 5 - Joshua Logan, stage and film writer and director (d. 1988)
- November 28 - Claude Lévi-Strauss, anthropologist
Deaths
- January 18 - Edmund Clarence Stedman, poet and critic (b. 1833)
- January 25 - Ouida, writer (b. 1839)
- March 19 - Eduard Zeller, philosopher (b. 1814)
- April 20 - Henry Chadwick, baseball writer and historian (b. 1824)
- July 3 - Joel Chandler Harris, journalist and author (b. 1848)
- July 28 - Otto Pfleiderer, theologian (b. 1839)
- November 8 - Victorien Sardou, dramatist (b. 1831)
Awards
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