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The year 1909 in literature involved some significant new books.
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Events
New books
- L. Frank Baum - The Road to Oz
- - Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work (as "Edith Van Dyne")
- André Billy - La Derive
- René Boylesve - La Jeune Fille bien élevée
- Hall Caine - The White Prophet
- Ion Luca Caragiale - Kir Ianulea
- Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
- Charles Hoy Fort - The Outcast Manufacturers
- Anatole France - Balthazar
- Jacques Futrelle - Elusive Isabel
- John Galsworthy - Fraternity
- Jack London - Martin Eden
- John Masefield - Multitude and Solitude
- Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Avonlea
- Baroness Orczy -The Nest of the Sparrowhawk
- Gertrude Stein - Three Lives
- Gene Stratton-Porter - A Girl of the Limberlost
- Hermann Sudermann - The Song of Songs
- Robert Walser &- Jakob von Gunten
- Mary Augusta Ward - Daphne
- H.G. Wells - Ann Veronica
New drama
- John Galsworthy - Strife
- Ferenc Molnár - Liliom
- George Bernard Shaw - The Shewing-up Of Blanco Posnet
Poetry
Main article: 1909 in poetry
- Guillaume Apollinaire — L'Enchanteur Pourrissant
- François Mauriac — Les Mains Jointes (Clasped Hands)
- John Millington Synge — Poems and Translations
Non-fiction
- Henry James - Italian Hours
- William James - A Pluralistic Universe
Births
- January 29 - Phoebe Hesketh, British poet (d. 2005)
- February 24 - August Derleth, anthologist (d. 1971)
- February 15 - Miep Gies, Anne Frank friend, biographer
- March 28 - Nelson Algren, novelist (d. 1981)
- April 8 - John Fante, novelist (d. 1983)
- May 9 - Robert Garioch, poet (d. 1981)
- June 6 - Sir Isaiah Berlin, philosopher (d. 1997)
- June 28 - Eric Ambler, novelist (d. 1998)
- July 1 – Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan writer (d. 1994)
- July 17 - G. P. Wells, son and co-author of H. G. Wells (d. 11985)
- July 28 - Malcolm Lowry, British novelist (d. 1957)
- July 30 - C. Northcote Parkinson, British historian and author (d. 1993)
- August 3 — Walter Van Tilburg Clark, novelist (d. 1971)
Deaths
- January 14 - Arthur William à Beckett, journalist (b. 1844)
- February 11 - Russell Sturgis, art critic (b. 1836)
- March 24 - John Millington Synge, dramatist and poet (b. 1871)
- March 27 (probable) - John Davidson, poet (b. 1857)
- April 9 - Francis Marion Crawford, novelist (b. 1854)
- April 9 - Paschal Grousset, journalist and science fiction writer (b. 1844)
- April 12 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, British poet (b. 1837)
- April 26 - Marcus Dods, theologian (b. 1834)
- May 18 - George Meredith, novelist and poet (b. 1828)
- June 11 - Jacob Gordin, dramatist (b. 1853)
- July 8 - Albert Craig, "The Surrey Poet", cricket writer (b. 1850)
- August 21 - George Cabot Lodge, poet (b. 1873)
- August 23 - Liu E, novelist (b. 1857)
- October 24 - Henry Charles Lea, historian (b. 1825)
- December 14 - Frederick Greenwood, journalist (b. 1830)
- date unknown
- H. L. Fischer, translator (b. 1822)
Awards
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Selma Lagerlöf
- Newdigate prize: Frank Ashton-Gwatkin
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