1911 in literature

The year 1911 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

• George Moore (novelist) publishes the first of his three-volume Hail and Farewell (last in 1914).
• Gallimard publishing house founded in Paris by Gaston Gallimard. Its first publication is Paul Claudel's play L'Otage.
• Britain establishes six copyright libraries to which copies of all books published in the country must be sent: Bodleian Library (Oxford); British Library (London); National Library of Scotland (Edinburgh); National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth); Trinity College, Dublin; and Cambridge University Library.

New fiction

• L. Frank Baum - The Sea Fairies
  • - The Daring Twins
  • - Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John (as "Edith Van Dyne")
  • - The Flying Girl (as "Edith Van Dyne")
• Max Beerbohm — Zuleika Dobson
• Arnold Bennett — The Card
• J. D. Beresford — The Hampdenshire Wonder
• Frances Hodgson Burnett — The Secret Garden
• J. E. Casely-Hayford - Ethiopia Unbound
• G. K. Chesterton — The Innocence of Father Brown
• Hugh Clifford — The Downfall of the Gods
• Joseph Conrad — Under Western Eyes
• Marie Corelli — Life Everlasting
• Ford Madox Ford — Ladies Whose Bright Eyes
• E. M. Forster — The Celestial Omnibus
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Moving the Mountain
• Eduard von Keyserling — Wellen
• Valery Larbaud — Fermina Márquez
• D. H. Lawrence — The White Peacock
• Gaston Leroux — The Phantom of the Opera
• Beatrix Potter — The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes
• Baroness Orczy — A True Woman
• Forrest Reid — The Bracknels
• Bram Stoker — The Lair of the White Worm
• Mary Augusta Ward — The Case of Richard Meynell
• H. G. Wells — The New Machiavelli
• Edith Wharton — Ethan Frome
• Owen Wister — Padre Ignacio
• Saki — The Chronicles of Clovis
• Violet Jacob — Flemington
• J.M. Barrie — Peter and Wendy
• L. M. Montgomery — The Story Girl
• Gene Stratton-Porter — The Harvester
• Theodore Dreiser — Jennie Gerhardt
• Kathleen Thompson Norris — Mother
• Katherine Mansfield — In A German Pension
• Jean Webster — Just Patty
• Sigrid Undset — Jenny
• R. Austin Freeman — The Eye of Osiris
• Algernon Blackwood — The Centaur
• Anna Katherine Green — Initials Only
• J.D. Beresford — The Hampdenshire Wonder
• Edna Ferber — Dawn O'Hara
• Mary Johnston — The Long Roll
• Hugh Walpole — Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill

New drama

• George Bernard Shaw - Fanny's First Play
• Emma Orczy - The Duke's Wager

Poetry

• Edwin James Brady - River Rovers
• John Masefield - The Everlasting Mercy

Non-fiction

• Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition.
• John Muir — My First Summer in the Sierra
• Rudolf Steiner - Mystics of the Renaissance

Births

• January 18 - José María Arguedas, Peruvian author (died 1969)
• January 24 - C. L. Moore, science fiction author (died 1987)
• February 8 - Elizabeth Bishop, poet, Pulitzer Prize winner (died 1979)
• March 11 - Sir Fitzroy Maclean, Scottish diplomat, adventurer, writer and politician (died 1996)
• March 26 - Tennessee Williams, playwright (died 1983)
• April 8 - Emil Cioran, Romanian-born French philosopher and essayist (died 1995)
• May 15 - Max Frisch, Swiss author (died 1991)
• May 20 - Annie M. G. Schmidt, Dutch children's author (died 1995)
• May 28 - Fritz Hochwälder, Austrian playwright (died 1986)
• June 2 - Xiao Hong, Chinese author (died 1942)
• June 6 - Verna Aardema, children's author (died 2000)
• June 30 - Czesław Miłosz, Polish author (died 2004)
• July 21 - Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author (died 1980)
• November 2 - Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet (died 1996)
• November 19 - Mary Elizabeth Counselman, American author and poet (died 1995)
• December 11 - Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel prize-winning Egyptian novelist (died 2006)
• December 25 - Noel Langley, screenwriter (died 1980)

Deaths

• January 23 - David Graham Phillips, journalist and novelist (born 1867)
• February 7 - Hannah Whitall Smith, Quaker author (born 1832)
• May 9 - Thomas Wentworth Higginson, literary mentor of Emily Dickinson (born 1823)
• May 29 - W. S. Gilbert, librettist, dramatist (born 1836)
• October 8 - Hesba Stretton, author (born 1832)
• October 29 - Joseph Pulitzer (born 1847)
• November 9 - Howard Pyle, children's author (born 1853)

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck, Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist

External links

• "100 years on: The best books of 1911", Stuart Kelly, The Scotsman, 24 December 2011