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The year 1915 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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Events
- May 3 - In Flanders Fields is written by Canadian poet John McCrae.
- The poem "Into Battle" is published in The Times a few weeks before its author, Julian Grenfell, is killed in battle.
- Russian poet Sergei Yesenin (1895–1925), published his first book of poems titled "Radumitsa."
New books
- Mariano Azuela - Los de abajo
- L. Frank Baum - The Scarecrow of Oz
- - Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross (as "Edith Van Dyne")
- John Buchan - The Thirty-nine Steps
- Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Return of Tarzan
- Willa Cather - The Song of the Lark
- Joseph Conrad - Victory
- Arthur Conan Doyle - The Valley of Fear
- Theodore Dreiser - The Genius
- Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Herland
- Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis
- D. H. Lawrence - The Rainbow
- Jack London - The Little Lady of the Big House
- W. Somerset Maugham - Of Human Bondage
- Oscar Micheaux - The Forged Note
- Baroness Orczy - A Bride of the Plains
- Eleanor H. Porter - Pollyanna Grows Up
- Sax Rohmer - The Yellow Claw
- Rafael Sabatini - The Sea Hawk
- Ruth Sawyer - The Primrose Ring
- Russell Thorndike - Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh
- P. G. Wodehouse - Something Fresh
- Virginia Woolf - The Voyage Out
New drama
- Susan Glaspell - Suppressed Desires
Non-fiction
- Hall Caine — The Drama of 365 Days: Scenes in the Great War
Poetry
Main article: 1915 in poetry
- T. S. Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- Geoffrey Faber - Interflow, Poems Mainly Lyrical
- Francis Ledwidge - Songs of the Fields
Awards
Births
- March 18 - Richard Condon, novelist (d. 1996)
- June 10 - Saul Bellow, writer (d. 2005)
- July 1 - Alun Lewis, war poet (d. 1944)
- July 7 - Margaret Walker, poet and novelist (d. 1998)
- July 14 - Jerome Lawrence, dramatist (d. 2004)
- July 31 - Herbert Aptheker, historian (d. 2003)
- August 19 - Ring Lardner Jr., journalist and scriptwriter, one of the "Hollywood Ten" (d. 2000)
- November 8 - G. S. Fraser, poet and critic (d. 1980)
- December 22 - David Martin, poet (d. 1997)
- December 27 - John Cornford, poet (d. 1936)
Deaths
- January 3 - James Elroy Flecker, poet, novelist and dramatist (b. 1884)
- February 4 - Mary Elizabeth Braddon, novelist (b. 1837)
- April 8 - Louis Pergaud, French novelist (b. 1882)
- April 23 - Rupert Brooke, war poet (b. 1887)
- May 26 - Julian Grenfell, war poet (b. 1888)
- November 14 - Booker T. Washington, writer and educator (b. 1856)
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