1907 in literature

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The year 1907 in literature involved some significant new books.

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June 26 - Mark Twain receives an honorary doctorate of laws degree from Oxford University.
James Joyce meets Ettore Schmitz for the first time.
Elizabeth Bowen moves with her mother from Ireland to England.
Deluxe edition of Margarete Böhme's Tagebuch einer Verlorenen published, marking 100,000 copies in print.

February 1 - Günter Eich, German lyricist (died 1972)
February 3 (probable) - James A. Michener, American novelist (died 1997)
February 21 - W. H. Auden, English poet (died 1973)
March 13 - Mircea Eliade, Romanian writer (died 1986)
May 12 - Leslie Charteris, The Saint author (died 1993)
May 13 - Daphne du Maurier, Cornish writer (died 1989)
May 27 - Rachel Carson, American author of Silent Spring (died 1964)
June 14 - René Char, French poet (died 1988)
July 7 - Robert A. Heinlein, American author (died 1988)
August 12 - Miguel Torga, Portuguese author (died 1995)
August 17 - Roger Peyrefitte, French author (died 2000)
August 28 - Rupert Hart-Davis, British editor and publisher (died 1999)
September 23 - Pauline Réage, French erotic novelist (d. 1998)
October 15 - Varian Fry, American journalist (died 1967)
November 14 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author of children's books (died 2002)
November 27 - L. Sprague de Camp, American science fiction and fantasy author (died 2000)
November 28 - Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist (died 1990)
November 28 - Mary Oppen, American poet, activist, photographer (died 1990)
December 10 - Rumer Godden, English novelist (died 1998)
December 18 - Christopher Fry, English dramatist (died 2005)

January 20 - Agnes Mary Clerke, English author on astronomy (b. 1842)
March 9 - Frederic George Stephens, critic and member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (b. 1828)
March 19 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, poet and novelist (b. 1836)
April 23 - André Theuriet, French poet and novelist (b. 1833
May 12 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (b. 1848)
July 17 - Hector Malot, French author (b. 1830)
July 19 - William Gunion Rutherford, Scottish classical commentator (b. 1853)
September 6 - Sully Prudhomme, French poet and essayist; 1st Nobel Prize winner (b. 1839)
September 7 - Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, Romanian philologist (b. 1836)
October 6 - David Masson, Scottish critic and biographer (b. 1822)
November 1 - Alfred Jarry, French dramatist (b. 1873)
November 28 - Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet and painter (b. 1869)