1906 in literature
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The year 1906 in literature involved some significant new books.
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[edit] Events
- December 24 - Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio program, a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech, broadcasts.
- Annie Carroll Moore opens the children's department at the New York Public Library.
[edit] New books
- Henry Adams - The Education of Henry Adams
- Pio Baroja - King Paradox
- L. Frank Baum - John Dough and the Cherub
- - Annabel (as "Suzanne Metcalf")
- - Aunt Jane's Nieces (as "Edith Van Dyne")
- - Daughters of Destiny (as "Schuyler Staunton")
- - Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea (as "Capt. Hugh Fitzgerald")
- - The Twinkle Tales (as "Laura Bancroft")
- Rex Beach - The Spoilers
- Hall Caine - Drink: A Love Story on a Great Question
- Paul Carus - Amitabha
- Mary Cholmondeley - Prisoners
- William de Morgan - Joseph Vance
- Arthur Conan Doyle - Sir Nigel
- Ford Madox Ford - The Fifth Queen
- Zona Gale - Romance Island
- John Galsworthy - The Man of Property
- Ellen Glasgow - The Wheel of Life
- Elinor Glyn - Beyond the Rocks
- Remy de Gourmont - A Night in the Luxembourg
- O. Henry - The Four Million
- Hermann Hesse - Beneath the Wheel
- Selma Lagerlöf - The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgerson
- Arthur Machen - The House of Souls
- George Moore (novelist) - My Dead Life
- Edith Nesbit - The Railway Children
- Baroness Orczy - I Will Repay (novel)
- David Maclean Parry - The Scarlet Empire
- Felix Salten (attributed) - Josephine Mutzenbacher
- Upton Sinclair - The Jungle
- Natsume Sōseki - Botchan
- Frank Thiess - Men At War
- Mark Twain - What Is Man?
- Mary Augusta Ward - Fenwick's Career
- H. G. Wells - In the Days of the Comet
- Owen Wister - Lady Baltimore
[edit] New drama
- John Galsworthy - The Silver Box
- Harley Granville-Barker - Waste
- George Barr McCutcheon - Brewster's Millions (adaptation)
- Emma Orczy - The Sin of William Jackson
[edit] Non-fiction
[edit] Births
- January 22 - Robert E. Howard, American fantasy author (died 1936)
- January 23 - Anya Seton, American romantic author (died 1990)
- February 8 - Henry Roth, novelist and short story writer (died 1995)
- February 15 - Musa Calil, poet (died 1944)
- March 25 - A.J.P. Taylor, historian (died 1990)
- April 13 - Samuel Beckett, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature (died 1989)
- June 20 - Catherine Cookson, best-selling novelist (died 1998)
- July 18 - Clifford Odets, dramatist (died 1963)
- August 30 - Elizabeth Longford, biographer (died 2002)
- September 25 - Franklin Garrett, historian of Atlanta (died 2000)
- October 10 - R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (died 2001)
- October 16 - Dino Buzzati, Italian author (died 1972)
- October 14 - Hannah Arendt, German/US intellectual (died 1975)
- November 30 - John Dickson Carr, American detective fiction author (died 1977)
[edit] Deaths
- February 9 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet
- March 2 - Ellen Mary Clerke, novelist
- April 6 - Alexander Kielland, Norwegian novelist (born 1849)
- April 11 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher
- April 14 - Nora Chesson, poet
- May 23 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (born 1828)
- June 29 - Albert Sorel, historian
- June 30 - Jean Lorrain, Symbolist poet
- December 6 - Anne Ross Cousin, poet
