1914 in literature

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The year 1914 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

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The literature of World War I makes its first appearance.
November 7 - The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.
George Moore (novelist) publishes the final of his 3-volume Hail and Farewell (first in 1911).
Thomas Hardy married Florence Dugdale.
Hilaire Belloc becomes editor of Land and Water.
Charles Taze Russell founder of the Watchtower Society (Jehovah's Witnesses) predicts October 2 as the date for the end of the world with statements such as in Studies In the Scriptures Series II - The Time Is At Hand (1889ed.) pp. 99, 101 "True, it is expecting great things to claim, as we do, that within the coming twenty-six years all present governments will be overthrown and dissolved …. In view of this strong Bible evidence concerning the Times of the Gentiles, we consider it an established truth that the final end of the kingdoms of this world, and the full establishment of the Kingdom of God, will be accomplished at the end of A. D. 1914…."

January 8 - Norman Nicholson, poet (died 1987)
February 5 - William S. Burroughs, author (died 1997)
March 1 - Ralph Ellison, scholar, writer (d. 1994)
March 28 - Bohumil Hrabal, author (died 1997)
March 31 - Octavio Paz, 1990 Nobel Prize-winning author (died 1998)
April 4 - Marguerite Duras, French writer (died 1996)
April 26 - Bernard Malamud, novelist (died 1986)
May 6 - Randall Jarrell, poet (died 1965)
May 8 - Romain Gary, writer (died 1980)
June 15 - Lena Kennedy, novelist (died 1986)
June 17 - Julián Marías, philosopher and author (died 2005)
June 26 - Laurie Lee, poet and novelist (died 1997)
July 15 - Hammond Innes, adventure novelist (died 1998)
July 15 - Gavin Maxwell, naturalist and author (died 1969)
August 9 - Tove Jansson, children's author (died 2001)
August 26 - Julio Cortázar, Argentine author (died 1984)
October 27 - Dylan Thomas, poet and author (died 1953)
December 12 - Patrick O'Brian, historical novelist (died 2000)
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- Leah Bodine Drake, poet (died 1964)
- John Masters, novelist (died 1983)