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1911 in literature
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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.
- 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 books
- Max Beerbohm — Zuleika Dobson
- Arnold Bennett — The Card
- J. D. Beresford — The Hampdenshire Wonder
- Frances Hodgson Burnett — The Secret Garden
- G. K. Chesterton — The Innocence of Father Brown
- Hugh Clifford — The Downfall of the Gods
- Marie Corelli — Life Everlasting
- Ford Madox Ford — Ladies Whose Bright Eyes
- E. M. Forster — The Celestial Omnibus
- Valery Larbaud — Fermina Márquez
- D. H. Lawrence — The White Peacock
- Gaston Leroux — The Phantom of the Opera
- 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
New drama
- George Bernard Shaw - Fanny's First Play
- Baroness Orczy — The Duke's Wager
Poetry
- Edwin James Brady - River Rovers
- John Masefield - The Everlasting Mercy
Non-fiction
Births
- January 24 - C. L. Moore, science fiction author
- February 8 - Elizabeth Bishop, poet, Pulitzer Prize winner (+ 1979)
- March 11 - Sir Fitzroy Maclean, Scottish diplomat, adventurer, writer and politician
- March 26 - Tennessee Williams, playwright
- April 8 - Emil Cioran, Romanian-born French philosopher and essayist (+ 1995)
- May 20 - Annie M. G. Schmidt, Dutch children's author
- June 6 - Verna Aardema, children's author
- July 21 - Marshall McLuhan - author (+ 1980)
- November 19 - Mary Elizabeth Counselman - American author and poet (+ 1995)
- December 11 - Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel prize-winning Egyptian novelist.
- December 25 - Noel Langley, screenwriter
Deaths
- January 23 - David Graham Phillips, journalist / novelist
- February 7 - Hannah Whitall Smith, Quaker author
- May 9 - Thomas Wentworth Higginson, literary mentor of Emily Dickinson
- May 29 - W. S. Gilbert, humorist
- October 8 - Hesba Stretton, author
- October 29 - Joseph Pulitzer
- November 9 - Howard Pyle, children's author
Awards
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck, Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist
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