1915 in literature

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The year 1915 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 Non-fiction 4 Poetry 5 Awards 6 Births 7 Deaths

[edit] Events

• May 3 - In Flanders Fields is written by Canadian poet John McCrae.
• The poem "Into Battle" is published in The Times a few weeks before its author, Julian Grenfell, is killed in battle.
• Russian poet Sergei Yesenin (1895–1925), published his first book of poems titled "Radumitsa."

[edit] New books

• Mariano Azuela — Los de abajo
• L. Frank Baum — The Scarecrow of Oz
• John Buchan — The Thirty-nine Steps
• Edgar Rice Burroughs — The Return of Tarzan
• Willa Cather — The Song of the Lark
• Arthur Conan Doyle — The Valley of Fear
• Theodore Dreiser — The Genius
• Ford Madox Ford — The Good Soldier
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman — Herland
• Franz Kafka — The Metamorphosis
• D. H. Lawrence — The Rainbow
• Jack London — The Little Lady of the Big House
• W. Somerset Maugham — Of Human Bondage
• Oscar Micheaux — The Forged Note
• Baroness Orczy
  • A Bride of the Plains
  • The Bronze Eagle
• Eleanor H. Porter — Pollyanna Grows Up
• Rafael Sabatini — The Sea Hawk
• Ruth Sawyer — The Primrose Ring
• Russell Thorndike — Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh
• P. G. Wodehouse — Something Fresh
• Virginia Woolf — The Voyage Out

[edit] Non-fiction

• Hall Caine — The Drama of 365 Days: Scenes in the Great War

[edit] Poetry

• T. S. Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
• Geoffrey Faber - Interflow, Poems Mainly Lyrical
• Francis Ledwidge - Songs of the Fields

[edit] Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Romain Rolland (French)

[edit] Births

• March 18 - Richard Condon, novelist
• June 7 - Graham Ingels, comic-book artist
• July 1 - Alun Lewis, war poet
• July 7 - Margaret Walker, poet and novelist
• July 14 - Jerome Lawrence, dramatist
• July 31 - Herbert Aptheker, historian
• August 19 - Ring Lardner Jr., journalist and scriptwriter, one of the "Hollywood Ten"
• November 8 - G. S. Fraser, poet and critic
• December 22 - David Martin, poet
• December 27 - John Cornford, poet

[edit] Deaths

• January 3 - James Elroy Flecker, poet, novelist and dramatist
• February 4 - Mary Elizabeth Braddon, novelist
• April 8 - Louis Pergaud, French novelist
• May 26 - Julian Grenfell, war poet
• November 15 - Booker T. Washington, writer and educator