| List of years in literature (table) |
|---|
| … 1908 . 1909 . 1910 . 1911 . 1912 . 1913 . 1914 … 1915 1916 1917 -1918- 1919 1920 1921 … 1922 . 1923 . 1924 . 1925 . 1926 . 1927 . 1928 … In poetry: 1915 1916 1917 -1918- 1919 1920 1921 |
| Related time period or subjects |
| … 1915 . 1916 . 1917 - 1918 - 1919 . 1920 . 1921 … … 1880s . 1890s . 1900s -1910s- 1920s . 1930s . 1940s |
| Art . Archaeology . Architecture . Literature . Music . Science +... |
The year 1918 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Contents |
Events
- The 2nd annual Pulitzer Prizes are awarded.
- Author Hall Caine made a KBE.
- Robert Graves marries Nancy Nicholson. Wedding guests include Wilfred Owen.
- Poet Basil Bunting is imprisoned as a conscientious objector.
New books
- Arnold Bennett - The Roll-Call
- Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
- Willa Cather - My Ántonia
- Blaise Cendrars
- I Have Killed
- The Severed Hand
- Marie Corelli - The Young Diana
- Sarah Lee Brown Fleming - Hope's Highway
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - Edgewater People
- "Owen Gregory" - Meccania the Super-State
- Wyndham Lewis - Tarr
- Baroness Orczy
- Flower o' the Lily
- The Man in Grey
- Leo Perutz - From Nine to Nine
- Romain Rolland - Colas Breugnon
- Booth Tarkington - The Magnificent Ambersons
- Mary Augusta Ward - The War and Elizabeth
- Rebecca West - The Return of the Soldier
- Edith Wharton - The Marne
New drama
- Bertolt Brecht - Baal (written)
- John Drinkwater - Abraham Lincoln
- Susan Glaspell - Tickless Time
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal - The Difficult Man
- James Joyce - Exiles
- Georg Kaiser - Gas
- Vladimir Mayakovsky - Mystery Bouffe
- Emma Orczy - The Legion of Honour (adaptation of A Sheaf of Bluebells)
Short stories
Poetry
- Guillaume Apollinaire - Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War
- Laurence Binyon - The New World: Poems
- Walter de la Mare - The Marionettes
- Siegfried Sassoon - Counter-Attack
- Tristan Tzara - Vingt-cinq poèmes
Non-fiction
- Henry Adams – The Education of Henry Adams
- Laurence Binyon – For Dauntless France
- Walther Rathenau – An Deutschlands Jugend
- Lytton Strachey – Eminent Victorians
- Oswald Spengler – The Decline of the West
- Mary Augusta Ward – A Writer's Recollections
Births
- January 16
- Stirling Silliphant, writer, producer (+ 1996)
- Philip José Farmer, science fiction writer
- February 1 - Dame Muriel Spark, author
- February 6 - Lothar-Günther Buchheim, author of Das Boot
- March 9 - Mickey Spillane, mystery writer
- July 14 - Arthur Laurents, novelist and screenwriter
- August 9 - Robert Aldrich, writer and filmmaker
- August 20 - Jacqueline Susann, best-selling novelist
- October 19 - Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher
- November 29 - Madeleine L'Engle, author of books for children & teens
- December 11 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer
- December 30 - Al Purdy, poet
- date unknown
- Peter Opie, expert in children's literature
- Nicholas Moore, poet
- Theodore Cogswell, science fiction author
- Roger Lancelyn Green, biographer
Deaths
- January 28 - John McCrae, war poet
- April 1 - Isaac Rosenberg, poet
- June 10 - Arrigo Boito, poet and composer
- June 26 - Peter Rosegger, poet
- October 5 - Robert Baldwin Ross, friend and literary executor of Oscar Wilde
- November 4
- Wilfred Owen, poet
- Andrew Dickson White, diplomat and author
- November 9 - Guillaume Apollinaire, poet
- December 2 - Edmond Rostand, dramatist
- December 15 - Salvatore Farina, novelist
- date unknown - Francis George Fowler, expert on grammar and usage
Awards
- Nobel Prize for Literature: not awarded
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Jesse Lynch Williams, Why Marry?
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Sara Teasdale: Love Songs
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Ernest Poole - His Family
This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)
