1912 in literature
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The year 1912 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- Virginia Stephen marries Leonard Woolf.
- Frieda von Richthofen meets D. H. Lawrence.
[edit] 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Baroness Orczy
- 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"
- Edith Wharton - The Reef
- P.G. Wodehouse - The Prince and Betty
- Stefan Żeromski - The Faithful River
[edit] 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.
[edit] Poetry
Main article: 1912 in poetry
- Edwin James Brady
- Georgian Poetry 1911-12
- Amy Lowell - A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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)
