1912 in literature

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The year 1912 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

• Virginia Stephen marries Leonard Woolf.
• Frieda von Richthofen meets D. H. Lawrence.

New fiction

• Mary Antin - The Promised Land
• L. Frank Baum - Sky Island
  • - Phoebe Daring
  • - Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation (as "Edith Van Dyne")
  • - The Flying Girl and Her Chum (as "Edith Van Dyne")
• Arnold Bennett - The Matador of the Five Towns
• E.F. Benson - Mrs. Ames
• Rhoda Broughton - Between Two Stools
• Mary Grant Bruce - Mates at Billabong
• Ivan Bunin - Dry Valley
• Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan of the Apes
  • A Princess of Mars
• Willa Cather - Alexander's Bridge
• Joseph Conrad - The Secret Sharer
• Ethel M. Dell - Greatheart
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Lost World
• Theodore Dreiser - The Financier
• Lord Dunsany - The Book of Wonder
• Edna Ferber - Buttered Side Down
• Anatole France - Les dieux ont soif
• R. Austin Freeman - The Singing Bone
  • The Mystery of 31 New Inn
• Elinor Glyn - Love Itself
  • Halcyone
  • The Reasons Why
• Sarah Grand - Adnams Orchard
• Zane Grey - Riders of the Purple Sage
• Knut Hamsun - The Last Joy
• James Weldon Johnson - The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
• Annie Fellows Johnston - Mary Ware's Promised Land
• Ada Leverson - Tenterhooks
• D. H. Lawrence - The Trespasser
• Stephen Leacock - Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
• Sinclair Lewis - Hike and the Aeroplane (as Tom Graham)
• Jack London - A Son of the Sun
  • The Scarlet Plague
• Thomas Mann - Death in Venice (Der Tod in Venedig)
• Lucy Maud Montgomery - Chronicles of Avonlea
• E. Nesbit - The Magic World
• E. Phillips Oppenheim - The Lighted Way
  • The Tempting of Tavernake
• Baroness Orczy
  • The Traitor
  • The Good Patriots
  • Fire in Stubble
  • Meadowsweet
• Beatrix Potter - The Tale of Mr. Tod
• Eleanor H. Porter - Miss Billy's Decision
• Saki - The Unbearable Bassington
• Henryk Sienkiewicz - In Desert and Wilderness
• Hjalmar Söderberg - The Serious Game
• James Stephens - The Crock of Gold
• Sui Sin Far - Mrs. Spring Fragrance
• Leo Tolstoy - Hadji Murat
• Hugh Walpole - The Prelude to Adventure
• Jean Webster - Daddy-Long-Legs
• H. G. Wells - Marriage
• Percy F. Westerman - The Quest of the "Golden Hope"
  • The Flying Submarine
  • Captured at Tripoli
  • The Sea Monarch
• Edith Wharton - The Reef
• P.G. Wodehouse - The Prince and Betty
• Stefan Żeromski - The Faithful River

New drama

• Hugo von Hofmannsthal - Everyman
• January 5 1912 [O.S. December 23, 1911] - Stanislavski and Craig's seminal symbolist Moscow Art Theatre production of Hamlet opens.

Poetry

• Edwin James Brady
  • Bells and Hobbles
  • The King's Caravan
• Georgian Poetry 1911-12
• Amy Lowell - A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass

Non-fiction

• Hillaire Belloc - The Servile State
• Arnold Bennett - Those United States
• Alexander Berkman - Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
• Aleister Crowley - Magick (Book 4)
• Carl Jung - Psychology of the Unconscious
• Pierre Loti - A Pilgrimage to Angkor
• Donald Lowrie - My Life in Prison
• John Muir - The Yosemite
• Bertrand Russell - The Problems of Philosophy

Births

• January 7 - Charles Addams, cartoonist (died 1988)
• January 14 - Rudolf Hagelstange, German lyricist, narrator and essayist (died 1984)
• January 30 - Barbara Tuchman, historian (died 1989)
• February 2 - Millvina Dean youngest survivor of the Titanic, at 2 months old (died 31 May 2009)
• February 11 - Roy Fuller English poet/novelist (died 1991)
• February 12 - R. F. Delderfield, novelist and historian (died 1972)
• February 15 - George Mikes, humorist (died 1987)
• February 17 - Andre Norton, sci-fi and fantasy author (died 2005)
• February 20 - Pierre Boulle, novelist (died 1994)
• February 27 - Lawrence Durrell, poet and novelist (died 1990)
• March 12 - Kylie Tennant, novelist, dramatist and historian (died 1988)
• May 3 - May Sarton, American writer (died 1995)
• May 16 - Studs Terkel, writer and broadcaster (died 2008)
• May 20 - J. L. Carr, novelist and publisher (died 1994)
• May 27 - John Cheever, writer (died 1982)
• May 29 - Pamela Hansford Johnson, poet, novelist and critic, and wife of C. P. Snow (died 1981)
• June 20 - Anthony Buckeridge, children's author (died 2004)
• June 29 - John Toland, Pulitzer-winning historian and biographer (died 2004)
• July 6 - Heinrich Harrer, explorer and author (Seven Years in Tibet) (died 2006)
• July 14 - Northrop Frye, critic (died 1991)
• August 4 - Virgilio Piñera, poet and short-story writer (died 1979)
• August 10 - Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer (died 2001)
• August 18 - Elsa Morante, Italian author (died 1985)
• August 23 - Nelson Rodrigues, Brazilian author (died 1980)
• September 12 - J. F. Hendry, poet (died 1986)
• November 8 - Monica Edwards, children's author (died 1998)
• November 24 - Garson Kanin, dramatist and screenwriter (died 1999)
• November 25 - Francis Durbridge, dramatist (died 1998)
• November 26 - Eugène Ionesco, playwright (died 1994)
• December 4 - Ian Wallace (died 1998), science fiction author

Deaths

• January 28 - Gustave de Molinari, economist (born 1819)
• March 1 - George Grossmith, co-author of Diary of a Nobody (born 1847)
• April 6 - Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet (born 1855)
• April 10 - Gabriel Monod, historian (born 1844)
• April 15 - In the wreck of the RMS Titanic
  • Jacques Futrelle, American author (born 1875)
  • William Thomas Stead, journalist (born 1849)
• April 20 - Bram Stoker, author (born 1847)
• May 14 - August Strindberg, dramatist (born 1849)
• July 20 - Andrew Lang, poet, novelist and critic (born 1844)
• July 24 - Addison Peale Russell, American essayist (born 1826)
• August 29 - Theodor Gomperz, philosopher (born 1832)
• date unknown - James Allen, author of As a Man Thinketh (born 1864)

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Gerhart Hauptmann