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Events

February 15 – The weekly boys' story paper The Magnet is first published in London, containing "The Making of Harry Wharton", the first serial story of the fictional Greyfriars School written by Charles Hamilton as Frank Richards and introducing the character of Billy Bunter.
March – Ezra Pound leaves America for Europe. In April, he moves to Venice, where in July he publishes himself his first collection of poems, A Lume Spento (dedicated to his friend Philadelphia artist William Brooke Smith, who has just died of tuberculosis). In August he settles in London, where he will remain until 1920 and in December publish A Quinzaine for this Yule.^[1]
June 18 – Mark Twain buys a house in Redding, Connecticut.^[2]
Summer – The Marlowe Society stages a production at the New Theatre, Cambridge (England), of Milton's masque Comus, directed by Rupert Brooke.
July – Katherine Mansfield moves to London; she will never return to her native New Zealand.
September 30 – Maurice Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird (L'Oiseau bleu) is premièred, at Konstantin Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theatre.
October 3 – The Avenida Theatre opens on Buenos Aires' Avenida de Mayo with a production of Lope de Vega's El castigo sin venganza (Justice Without Revenge, 1631) directed by María Guerrero.
November 10 – Opening of a production of Euripides' The Bacchae directed by William Poel in Gilbert Murray's verse translation at the Royal Court Theatre in London under the management of Harley Granville-Barker with his wife Lillah McCarthy in the role of Dionysus.^[3]
November 18 – The release in France of La Mort du duc de Guise marks the first film with a screenplay by an eminent man of letters, the playwright Henri Lavedan;^[4] it is also directed by two men of the theatre, Charles Le Bargy and André Calmettes, and features actors of the Comédie-Française.
December – Ford Madox Hueffer begins publication of the literary magazine The English Review in London. The first issue contains original work by Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, John Galsworthy and W. H. Hudson, and begins serialization of H. G. Wells's realist semi-autobiographical satirical novel Tono-Bungay.
December 1 – Cuala Press, set up at Churchtown, Dublin, as a private press independent of the former Dun Emer Press in connection with the Irish Literary Revival and Arts and Crafts movement by Elizabeth "Lolly" Yeats with editorial support from her brother W. B. Yeats, produces its first publication, Poetry and Ireland: Essays by W. B. Yeats and Lionel Johnson (died 1902).^[5]
unknown dates
- Ethiopian linguist Afevork Ghevre Jesus's ልብ ፡ ወለድ ፡ ታሪክ ። (Libb Wolled Tārīk, "A Heart-Born Story"), the first novel in Amharic, is published in Rome.^[6]
- The Malay tale Hikayat Hang Tuah (c. 1700) is first published, edited by Sulaiman bin Muhammed Nur and William Shellabear.^[7]
- The Romanian writer Urmuz is known to be working on his manuscript stories, the Bizarre Pages, printed only after 1922.^[8]

New books

Poetry

Edward Carpenter – Iolaus: Anthology of Friendship
W. H. Davies – Nature Poems
Maria Konopnicka – Rota (Oath)

Non-fiction

Robert Baden-Powell – Scouting for Boys
Sarah Bernhardt – My Double Life
Annie Besant, C. W. Leadbeater – Occult Chemistry
Edward Carpenter – The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women
G. K. Chesterton – All Things Considered
W. H. Davies – The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp^[11]
Levi H. Dowling – The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ
Gertrude Jekyll – Colour in the Flower Garden
Jack London – War of the Classes
Francisco I. Madero – La sucesión presidencial en 1910^[12]
Titu Maiorescu – Critice (Critical Essays)
Friedrich Nietzsche (died 1900) – Ecce homo: Wie man wird, was man ist (written 1888)
M. Ostrogorski – Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties (La Démocratie et l'organisation des partis politiques, 1903)
George Panu – Amintiri de la Junimea din Iași (Recollections from Junimea of Iași; first volume)
Charlotte Carmichael Stopes – The Sphere of 'Man' in Relation to that of 'Woman' in the Constitution
Thomas Traherne (died 1674) – Centuries of Meditations, now first printed from the author's manuscript
Alfred R. Tucker – Eighteen Years in Uganda and East Africa^[13]

Births

January 9 – Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist philosopher (died 1986)^[14]
January 16 – Pavel Nilin, Soviet novelist and playwright (died 1981)
January 18 – Jacob Bronowski, Polish-born scientist and poet (died 1974)
January 20
- Fleur Cowles, American journalist, editor and illustrator (died 2009)^[15]
- Jean S. MacLeod, Scottish-English romantic novelist (died 2011)
February 1 – Leonard Gribble, English novelist (died 1985)
February 4 – Julian Bell, English poet (killed 1937)
February 11 – Philip Dunne, American screenwriter, director, and producer (died 1992)
February 29 – Dee Brown, American novelist and historian (died 2002)
March 2 – Olivia Manning, English playwright and novelist (died 1980)
March 5 – Irving Fiske, American playwright, WPA writer, and speaker; co-founder of Quarry Hill Creative Center (died 1990),^[16]
March 6 – Dame Felicitas Corrigan, English writer and Benedictine nun (died 2003)^[17]
March 8 – Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh, Indian-born Bahraini poet (died 2002)
March 22 – Louis L'Amour, American author (died 1988)
April 12 – Ida Pollock, British romantic novelist (died 2013)
May 17 – Frederic Prokosch, American novelist and poet (died 1989)
May 20 – Aleksei Arbuzov, Soviet playwright (died 1986)
May 25 – Theodore Roethke, American poet (died 1963)
May 27 – Peggy Ramsay, born Margaret Venniker, Australian-born British theatrical agent (died 1991)
May 28 – Ian Fleming, English espionage novelist (died 1964)^[18]
June 1 – Julie Campbell Tatham, American children's writer (died 1999)
June 14 – Kathleen Raine, English poet, scholar, and translator (died 2003)^[19]
June 25 – John Sommerfield, English communist writer (died 1991)
June 27 – João Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian novelist (died 1967)
June 30
- Winston Graham, English novelist (died 2003)^[20]^[21]
- Rob Nieuwenhuys, Dutch writer (died 1999)
July 7 – Laurie Fitzhardinge, Australian historian and librarian (died 1993)
July 10 – Carl Richard Jacobi, American journalist and author (died 1997)
July 23 – Elio Vittorini, Italian author (died 1966)
August 21 – M. M. Kaye, Indian-born English novelist and autobiographer (died 2004)^[22]
August 23 – Arthur Adamov, French Absurdist playwright (died 1970)
August 28
- Robert Merle, French novelist (died 2004)
- Marguerite Young, American novelist, poet and biographer (died 1995)
August 31 – William Saroyan, American writer (d. 1981)^[23]
September 4 – Richard Wright, African-American novelist and poet (died 1960)
September 9 – Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and novelist (suicide 1950)
September 15 – Miško Kranjec, Slovenian writer (died 1983)
September 17 – John Creasey, English crime writer (died 1973)^[24]
October 5 – Joshua Logan, American stage and film writer and director (died 1988)
October 13 – Robert Liddell, English biographer, novelist and poet (died 1992)
October 17 – Leon Kalustian, Romanian journalist, essayist and memoirist (died 1990)
October 23 – Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov, Chechen historian (died 1997)
October 24 – Phyllis Shand Allfrey (Phyllis Byam Shand), Dominican writer (died 1986)
October 25 – Edmond Pidoux, Swiss writer (died 2004)
November 8 – Zhou Yang, Chinese literary theorist (died 1989)
November 8 – Martha Gellhorn, American journalist (suicide 1998)^[25]
November 9 – Lucian Boz, Romanian and Australian literary critic (died 2003)
November 20 – Alistair Cooke, English-born American journalist (died 2004)^[26]
November 21 – Elizabeth George Speare, American children's writer (died 1994)
November 23 – Nelson S. Bond, American author, playwright and scriptwriter (died 2006)
November 28
- Claude Lévi-Strauss, Belgian-born French anthropologist (died 2009)
- Mary Oppen, American poet, activist and photographer (died 1990)
November 30 – Buddhadeb Bosu, Bengali poet and writer (died 1974)
December 14 – Mária Szepes, Hungarian novelist and screenwriter (died 2007)
December 22 – Giovanni Luigi Bonelli, Italian comic book author and writer (died 2001)
December 25 – Quentin Crisp, English gay icon, author and raconteur (died 1999)

Deaths

January 9 – Wilhelm Busch, German humorist and poet (born 1832)
January 14 – Holger Drachmann, Danish poet and dramatist (born 1846)^[27]
January 18 – Edmund Clarence Stedman, American poet and critic (born 1833)
January 25 – Ouida (Maria Louise Ramé), English novelist (born 1839)^[28]
February 7
- Alexander Ertel, Russian novelist and short story writer (born 1855)
- Manuel Curros Enríquez, Spanish Galician writer (born 1851)
February 17 – Annie Ryder Gracey, American author and missionary (born 1836)
March 4 – Mrs. Henry Clarke (Amy Key), English historical novelist and children's writer (born 1853)
March 11 – Edmondo De Amicis, Italian novelist (born 1846)^[29]
March 12 – Susan Marr Spalding, American poet (born 1841)^[30]
March 19 – Eduard Zeller, German philosopher (born 1814)
March 25 – Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov, Russian poet, dramatist and critic (born 1821)
March 29
- Eliza Trask Hill, American journalist and activist (born 1840)^[31]
- Esther Pugh, American editor and publisher (born 1834)
April 20 – Henry Chadwick, English-born American baseball writer and historian (born 1824)
May 7 – Ludovic Halévy, French playwright and author (born 1834)
May 23 – François Coppée, French author, le poète des humbles (born 1842)^[32]
June 5 – Jonas Lie, Norwegian writer (born 1944)
June 16 – Mary Elizabeth Hawker, Scottish-born English fiction writer (born 1848)
June 20 – Eleanor Kirk, American author, publisher (born 1831)
July 3 – Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist and author (born 1848)
July 28 – Otto Pfleiderer, German theologian (born 1839)
July 29 – Estelle M. H. Merrill, American journalist and editor (born 1858)^[33]
August 4 – Bronson Howard, American dramatist (born 1842)
August 10 – Louise Chandler Moulton, American author and critic (born 1835)^[34]
August 14 – Anton Giulio Barrili, Italian novelist (born 1836)^[35]
September 29 – Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (born 1839)^[36]
November 1 – Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney, American educator, poet, author, and editor (born 1823)
November 8

Josephine E. Keating, American literary critic and musician (born 1838)^[37]
Victorien Sardou, French dramatist (born 1831)^[38]

December 5 – Mary H. Graves, American minister, literary editor, writer (born 1839)^[39]

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Rudolf Christoph Eucken
Newdigate Prize: Julian Huxley, "Holyrood"^[40]

References

^ Ackroyd, Peter (1980). "Bibliography". Ezra Pound. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd. p. 121.
^ "Mark Twain's Redding, Connecticut Home: Stormfield". History of Redding. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
^ "Bacchae (1908)". APGRD. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
^ Robertson, Patrick (2007). Film Facts. Wigston: Quantum Books. pp. 45–46. ISBN 978-1-84573-235-6.
^ Ross, David A. (2009). Critical Companion to William Butler Yeats: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work. Facts on File Library of World Literature. New York: Facts on File. p. 605. ISBN 978-0-8160-5895-2.
^ Fellman, Jack (1991). "Ethiopia's First Novel". Research in African Literatures. 22: 183–184. JSTOR 3819716.
^ Robert Hunt (2002), International Bulletin of Missionary Research 26(1): 31.
^ Cernat, Paul (2007). Avangarda românească și complexul periferiei: primul val. Bucharest: Cartea Românească. pp. 9, 90–91, 340, 356. ISBN 978-973-23-1911-6.
^ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
^ Semiotic Society of America. Meeting (1984). Semiotics. Plenum Press. p. 52. ISBN 978-0-8191-4880-3.
^ David Perkins (1976). A History of Modern Poetry: From the 1890s to the High Modernist Mode. Harvard University Press. p. 220. ISBN 978-0-674-39945-7.
^ Thomas Benjamin; Thomas Louis Benjamin (1989). A Rich Land, a Poor People: Politics and Society in Modern Chiapas. University of New Mexico Press. p. 100. ISBN 978-0-8263-1132-0.
^ "Eighteen Years in Uganda and East Africa". World Digital Library. 1908. Retrieved 2013-09-24.
^ Terry Keefe (20 April 1998). Simone De Beauvoir. Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 2. ISBN 978-1-349-26390-5.
^ "Fleur Cowles obituary". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
^ New York Times Obituaries, May 1, 1990
^ "Obituary: Felicitas Corrigan". The Guardian. 2003-10-23. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
^ Robert Druce (1992). This Day Our Daily Fictions: An Enquiry Into the Multi-million Bestseller Status of Enid Blyton and Ian Fleming. Rodopi. p. 46. ISBN 978-90-5183-401-7.
^ Watts, Janet (2003-07-08). "Obituary: Kathleen Raine". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
^ "Winston Graham obituary". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
^ "Winston Graham obituary". The Telegraph. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
^ Veronica Horwell (4 February 2004). "Obituary: MM Kaye". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
^ Elizabeth H. Oakes (2004). American Writers. Infobase Publishing. p. 303. ISBN 978-1-4381-0809-4.
^ R. Reginald (1979). Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature: A Checklist, 1700-1974 : with Contemporary Science Fiction Authors II. Gale Research Company. p. 868. ISBN 978-0-8103-1051-3.
^ United States Congressional serial set. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1961. p. 30.
^ Nick Clark (30 March 2004). "Alistair Cooke". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
^ The Literary Year-book. G. Routledge. 1909. p. 384.
^ "Cosmopolis History of The Langham". Retrieved 20 October 2010.
^ Louise Restieaux Hawkes (1933). Before and After Pinocchio: A Study of Italian Children's Books. Puppet Press. p. 88.
^ Hills, William Henry; Luce, Robert (1907). The Writer: A Monthly Magazine for Literary Workers. Vol. 19–21 (Public domain ed.). Writer Publishing Company. p. 39.
^ Foster, F. Apthorp; Woods, Henry Ernest (1908). The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Vol. 62 (Public domain ed.). New England Historic Genealogical Society. p. 314.
^ John Parker (1967). Who's who in the Theatre. Pitman. p. 1609.
^ Fourth Estate Publishing Company (1908). Fourth Estate: A Weekly Newspaper for Publishers, Advertisers, Advertising Agents and Allied Interests. Fourth Estate Publishing Company. p. 264.
^ Edward T. James; Janet Wilson James; Paul S. Boyer; Radcliffe College (1971). Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. Harvard University Press. p. 595. ISBN 978-0-674-62734-5.
^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Barrili, Antonio Giulio" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
^ Júlia Maria Leonor Scarano (1969). Grandes Personagens da Nossa História (in Portuguese). Abril Cultural. p. 780.
^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Moulton. p. 429.
^ "Victorien Sardou, dramatist, dead; Dean of French Playwrights and Creator of Bernhardt's Famous Roles Leaves No Memoirs" (PDF). The New York Times. 9 November 1908.
^ Graves, Kenneth Vance (1985). Samuel Graves, 1630 Settler of Lynn, Massachusetts and His Descendants: Allied Families Include Adsit, Collins, Gilman, Hibbard/Hebbard, Perkins, Smith, Wilson, and Others. Family History Publications. p. 97.
^ Aldous Huxley (1970). Letters of Aldous Huxley. Harper & Row. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-06-013937-7.

[1] Ackroyd, Peter (1980). "Bibliography". Ezra Pound. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd. p. 121.

[2] "Mark Twain's Redding, Connecticut Home: Stormfield". History of Redding. Retrieved 2013-11-09.

[3] "Bacchae (1908)". APGRD. Retrieved 2021-03-18.

[4] Robertson, Patrick (2007). Film Facts. Wigston: Quantum Books. pp. 45–46. ISBN 978-1-84573-235-6.

[5] Ross, David A. (2009). Critical Companion to William Butler Yeats: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work. Facts on File Library of World Literature. New York: Facts on File. p. 605. ISBN 978-0-8160-5895-2.

[6] Fellman, Jack (1991). "Ethiopia's First Novel". Research in African Literatures. 22: 183–184. JSTOR 3819716.

[7] Robert Hunt (2002), International Bulletin of Missionary Research 26(1): 31.

[8] Cernat, Paul (2007). Avangarda românească și complexul periferiei: primul val. Bucharest: Cartea Românească. pp. 9, 90–91, 340, 356. ISBN 978-973-23-1911-6.

[9] Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.

[10] Semiotic Society of America. Meeting (1984). Semiotics. Plenum Press. p. 52. ISBN 978-0-8191-4880-3.

[11] David Perkins (1976). A History of Modern Poetry: From the 1890s to the High Modernist Mode. Harvard University Press. p. 220. ISBN 978-0-674-39945-7.

[12] Thomas Benjamin; Thomas Louis Benjamin (1989). A Rich Land, a Poor People: Politics and Society in Modern Chiapas. University of New Mexico Press. p. 100. ISBN 978-0-8263-1132-0.

[WDL-13] "Eighteen Years in Uganda and East Africa". World Digital Library. 1908. Retrieved 2013-09-24.

[14] Terry Keefe (20 April 1998). Simone De Beauvoir. Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 2. ISBN 978-1-349-26390-5.

[15] "Fleur Cowles obituary". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 28 August 2022.

[16] New York Times Obituaries, May 1, 1990

[17] "Obituary: Felicitas Corrigan". The Guardian. 2003-10-23. Retrieved 2021-11-15.

[18] Robert Druce (1992). This Day Our Daily Fictions: An Enquiry Into the Multi-million Bestseller Status of Enid Blyton and Ian Fleming. Rodopi. p. 46. ISBN 978-90-5183-401-7.

[19] Watts, Janet (2003-07-08). "Obituary: Kathleen Raine". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2018-10-11.

[20] "Winston Graham obituary". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved March 9, 2015.

[telegraph-21] "Winston Graham obituary". The Telegraph. Retrieved March 9, 2015.

[22] Veronica Horwell (4 February 2004). "Obituary: MM Kaye". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 August 2022.

[23] Elizabeth H. Oakes (2004). American Writers. Infobase Publishing. p. 303. ISBN 978-1-4381-0809-4.

[24] R. Reginald (1979). Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature: A Checklist, 1700-1974 : with Contemporary Science Fiction Authors II. Gale Research Company. p. 868. ISBN 978-0-8103-1051-3.

[25] United States Congressional serial set. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1961. p. 30.

[26] Nick Clark (30 March 2004). "Alistair Cooke". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 August 2022.

[27] The Literary Year-book. G. Routledge. 1909. p. 384.

[28] "Cosmopolis History of The Langham". Retrieved 20 October 2010.

[29] Louise Restieaux Hawkes (1933). Before and After Pinocchio: A Study of Italian Children's Books. Puppet Press. p. 88.

[30] Hills, William Henry; Luce, Robert (1907). The Writer: A Monthly Magazine for Literary Workers. Vol. 19–21 (Public domain ed.). Writer Publishing Company. p. 39.

[31] Foster, F. Apthorp; Woods, Henry Ernest (1908). The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Vol. 62 (Public domain ed.). New England Historic Genealogical Society. p. 314.

[32] John Parker (1967). Who's who in the Theatre. Pitman. p. 1609.

[33] Fourth Estate Publishing Company (1908). Fourth Estate: A Weekly Newspaper for Publishers, Advertisers, Advertising Agents and Allied Interests. Fourth Estate Publishing Company. p. 264.

[34] Edward T. James; Janet Wilson James; Paul S. Boyer; Radcliffe College (1971). Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. Harvard University Press. p. 595. ISBN 978-0-674-62734-5.

[35] Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Barrili, Antonio Giulio" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

[36] Júlia Maria Leonor Scarano (1969). Grandes Personagens da Nossa História (in Portuguese). Abril Cultural. p. 780.

[37] Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Moulton. p. 429.

[38] "Victorien Sardou, dramatist, dead; Dean of French Playwrights and Creator of Bernhardt's Famous Roles Leaves No Memoirs" (PDF). The New York Times. 9 November 1908.

[39] Graves, Kenneth Vance (1985). Samuel Graves, 1630 Settler of Lynn, Massachusetts and His Descendants: Allied Families Include Adsit, Collins, Gilman, Hibbard/Hebbard, Perkins, Smith, Wilson, and Others. Family History Publications. p. 97.

[40] Aldous Huxley (1970). Letters of Aldous Huxley. Harper & Row. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-06-013937-7.

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 *[[James Oliver Curwood]] – ''The Courage of Captain Plum'' and ''The Gold Hunters''
 *[[Machado de Assis]] – ''Memorial de Aires''
-*[[Grazia Deledda]] – ''[[L'Edera (novel)|L'edera]]'' (The Ivy, first Italian publication)
+*[[Grazia Deledda]] – ''[[L'edera (novel)|L'edera]]'' (The Ivy, first Italian publication)
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 *[[Maurice Maeterlinck]] – ''[[The Blue Bird (play)|The Blue Bird]] (L'Oiseau bleu)''<ref>{{cite book|author=Semiotic Society of America. Meeting|title=Semiotics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dUliAAAAMAAJ|year=1984|publisher=Plenum Press|isbn=978-0-8191-4880-3|page=52}}</ref>
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 *[[Edward Sheldon]] – ''Salvation Nell''
 *[[J. M. Synge]] – ''[[The Tinker's Wedding]]''
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 *[[George Panu]] – ''Amintiri de la Junimea din Iași'' (Recollections from ''Junimea'' of Iași; first volume)
 *[[Charlotte Carmichael Stopes]] – ''The Sphere of 'Man' in Relation to that of 'Woman' in the Constitution''
+*[[Thomas Traherne]] (died 1674) – ''Centuries of Meditations'', now first printed from the author's manuscript
 *[[Alfred R. Tucker]] – ''Eighteen Years in Uganda and East Africa''<ref name="WDL">{{cite web |url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/9944/ |title=Eighteen Years in Uganda and East Africa |website=[[World Digital Library]] |year=1908 |accessdate=2013-09-24}}</ref>
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+**[[Fleur Cowles]], American journalist, editor and illustrator (died [[2009 in literature|2009]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/art-obituaries/5479121/Fleur-Cowles.html|title=Fleur Cowles obituary|website=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=28 August 2022}}</ref>
 **[[Jean S. MacLeod]], Scottish-English romantic novelist (died [[2011 in literature|2011]])
+*[[February 1]] – [[Leonard Gribble]], English novelist (died [[1985 in literature|1985]])
 *[[February 4]] – [[Julian Bell]], English poet (killed [[1937 in literature|1937]])
 *[[February 11]] – [[Philip Dunne (writer)|Philip Dunne]], American screenwriter, director, and producer (died [[1992 in literature|1992]])
 *[[February 29]] – [[Dee Brown (writer)|Dee Brown]], American novelist and historian (died [[2002 in literature|2002]])
-*[[March 5]] – [[Irving Fiske]], American playwright, WPA writer, and speaker; co-founder of [[Quarry Hill Creative Center]] (died [[1990 in literature|1990]]),<ref> New York Times Obituaries, May 1, 1990 </ref>
+*[[March 2]] – [[Olivia Manning]], English playwright and novelist (died [[1980 in literature|1980]])
+*[[March 5]] – [[Irving Fiske]], American playwright, WPA writer, and speaker; co-founder of [[Quarry Hill Creative Center]] (died [[1990 in literature|1990]]),<ref>New York Times Obituaries, May 1, 1990</ref>
-*[[March 6]] – Dame [[Felicitas Corrigan]], English writer and Benedictine nun (died [[2003 in literature|2003]])
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 *[[May 27]] – [[Peggy Ramsay]], born Margaret Venniker, Australian-born British theatrical agent (died [[1991 in literature|1991]])
 *[[May 28]] – [[Ian Fleming]], English espionage novelist (died [[1964 in literature|1964]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Druce|title=This Day Our Daily Fictions: An Enquiry Into the Multi-million Bestseller Status of Enid Blyton and Ian Fleming|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DlctAAAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=978-90-5183-401-7|page=46}}</ref>
+*[[June 1]] – [[Julie Campbell Tatham]], American children's writer (died [[1999 in literature|1999]])
 *[[June 14]] – [[Kathleen Raine]], English poet, scholar, and translator (died [[2003 in literature|2003]])<ref>{{cite news|last=Watts|first=Janet|title=Obituary: Kathleen Raine|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/jul/08/guardianobituaries.books|work=[[The Guardian]]|location=London|accessdate=2018-10-11|language=en|date=2003-07-08}}</ref>
+*[[June 25]] – [[John Sommerfield]], English communist writer (died [[1991 in literature|1991]])
 *[[June 27]] – [[João Guimarães Rosa]], Brazilian novelist (died [[1967 in literature|1967]])
 *[[June 30]]
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 *[[July 10]] – [[Carl Richard Jacobi]], American journalist and author (died [[1997 in literature|1997]])
 *[[July 23]] – [[Elio Vittorini]], Italian author (died [[1966 in literature|1966]])
-*[[August 21]] – [[M. M. Kaye]], Indian-born English novelist and autobiographer (died [[2004 in literature|2004]])
+*[[August 21]] – [[M. M. Kaye]], Indian-born English novelist and autobiographer (died [[2004 in literature|2004]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/feb/04/guardianobituaries.india|title=Obituary: MM Kaye |date=4 February 2004|author=Veronica Horwell |website=The Guardian|access-date=28 August 2022}}</ref>
 *[[August 23]] – [[Arthur Adamov]], French Absurdist playwright (died [[1970 in literature|1970]])
 *[[August 28]]
@@ Line 173: / Line 179: @@
 *[[August 31]] – [[William Saroyan]], American writer (d. [[1981]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Elizabeth H. Oakes|title=American Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Lb0zPJcYOwC&pg=PA303|year=2004|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-0809-4|pages=303}}</ref>
 *[[September 4]] – [[Richard Wright (author)|Richard Wright]], African-American novelist and poet (died [[1960 in literature|1960]])
-*[[September 9]] – [[Cesare Pavese]], Italian poet and novelist (died [[1950 in literature|1950]])
+*[[September 9]] – [[Cesare Pavese]], Italian poet and novelist (suicide [[1950 in literature|1950]])
 *[[September 15]] – [[Miško Kranjec]], Slovenian writer (died [[1983 in literature|1983]])
 *[[September 17]] – [[John Creasey]], English crime writer (died [[1973 in literature|1973]])<ref>{{cite book|author=R. Reginald|title=Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature: A Checklist, 1700-1974 : with Contemporary Science Fiction Authors II|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QfEzAQAAIAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Gale Research Company|isbn=978-0-8103-1051-3|page=868}}</ref>
@@ Line 185: / Line 191: @@
 *[[November 8]] – [[Martha Gellhorn]], American journalist (suicide [[1998 in literature|1998]])<ref>{{cite book|title=United States Congressional serial set|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h7ZGAQAAIAAJ|year=1961|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=30}}</ref>
 *[[November 9]] – [[Lucian Boz]], Romanian and Australian literary critic (died [[2003 in literature|2003]])
-*[[November 20]] – [[Alistair Cooke]], English-born American journalist (died [[2004 in literature|2004]])
+*[[November 20]] – [[Alistair Cooke]], English-born American journalist (died [[2004 in literature|2004]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/mar/30/guardianobituaries.media|title=Alistair Cooke|date=30 March 2004|author=Nick Clark|website=The Guardian|access-date=28 August 2022}}</ref>
 *[[November 21]] – [[Elizabeth George Speare]], American children's writer (died [[1994 in literature|1994]])
 *[[November 23]] – [[Nelson S. Bond]], American author, playwright and scriptwriter (died [[2006 in literature|2006]])
@@ Line 197: / Line 203: @@
 ==Deaths==
-*[[January 8]] – [[Wilhelm Busch]], German humorist and poet (born [[1832 in literature|1832]])
+*[[January 9]] – [[Wilhelm Busch]], German humorist and poet (born [[1832 in literature|1832]])
 *[[January 14]] – [[Holger Drachmann]], Danish poet and dramatist (born [[1846 in literature|1846]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Literary Year-book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mX1PAAAAMAAJ|year=1909|publisher=G. Routledge|page=384}}</ref>
 *[[January 18]] – [[Edmund Clarence Stedman]], American poet and critic (born [[1833 in literature|1833]])
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 **[[Alexander Ertel]], Russian novelist and short story writer (born [[1855 in literature|1855]])
 **[[Manuel Curros Enríquez]], Spanish Galician writer (born [[1851 in literature|1851]])
+*[[February 17]] – [[Annie Ryder Gracey]], American author and missionary (born [[1836 in literature|1836]])
 *[[March 4]] – [[Mrs. Henry Clarke]] (Amy Key), English historical novelist and children's writer (born [[1853 in literature|1853]])
 *[[March 11]] – [[Edmondo De Amicis]], Italian novelist (born [[1846 in literature|1846]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Louise Restieaux Hawkes|title=Before and After Pinocchio: A Study of Italian Children's Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tkA0AAAAMAAJ|year=1933|publisher=Puppet Press|page=88}}</ref>
@@ Line 209: / Line 216: @@
 *[[March 19]] – [[Eduard Zeller]], German philosopher (born [[1814 in literature|1814]])
 *[[March 25]] – [[Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov]], Russian poet, dramatist and critic (born [[1821 in literature|1821]])
+*[[March 29]]
-*[[March 29]] – [[Eliza Trask Hill]], American journalist and activist (born [[1840 in literature|1840]])<ref>{{cite book|last1=Foster|first1=F. Apthorp|last2=Woods|first2=Henry Ernest|title=The New England Historical and Genealogical Register|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wBJAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA314|edition=Public domain|volume=62|year=1908|publisher=New England Historic Genealogical Society|page=314}}</ref>
+**[[Eliza Trask Hill]], American journalist and activist (born [[1840 in literature|1840]])<ref>{{cite book|last1=Foster|first1=F. Apthorp|last2=Woods|first2=Henry Ernest|title=The New England Historical and Genealogical Register|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wBJAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA314|edition=Public domain|volume=62|year=1908|publisher=New England Historic Genealogical Society|page=314}}</ref>
+**[[Esther Pugh]], American editor and publisher (born [[1834 in literature|1834]])
 *[[April 20]] – [[Henry Chadwick (writer)|Henry Chadwick]], English-born American [[baseball]] writer and historian (born [[1824 in literature|1824]])
 *[[May 7]] – [[Ludovic Halévy]], French playwright and author (born [[1834 in literature|1834]])
@@ Line 215: / Line 224: @@
 *[[June 5]] – [[Jonas Lie (writer)|Jonas Lie]], Norwegian writer (born [[1844 in literature|1944]])
 *[[June 16]] – [[Mary Elizabeth Hawker]], Scottish-born English fiction writer (born [[1848 in literature|1848]])
+*[[June 20]] – [[Eleanor Kirk]], American author, publisher (born [[1831 in literature|1831]])
 *[[July 3]] – [[Joel Chandler Harris]], American journalist and author (born [[1848 in literature|1848]])
 *[[July 28]] – [[Otto Pfleiderer]], German theologian (born [[1839 in literature|1839]])
@@ Line 220: / Line 230: @@
 *[[August 4]] – [[Bronson Howard]], American dramatist (born [[1842 in literature|1842]])
 *[[August 10]] – [[Louise Chandler Moulton]], American author and critic (born [[1835 in literature|1835]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Edward T. James|author2=Janet Wilson James|author3=Paul S. Boyer|author4=Radcliffe College|title=Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rVLOhGt1BX0C&pg=RA1-PA595|year=1971|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-62734-5|pages=595}}</ref>
-*[[August 14]] – [[Anton Giulio Barrili]], Italian novelist (born [[1836 in literature|1836]])
+*[[August 14]] – [[Anton Giulio Barrili]], Italian novelist (born [[1836 in literature|1836]])<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Barrili, Antonio Giulio}}</ref>
-*[[September 29]] – [[Machado de Assis]], Brazilian writer (born [[1839 in literature|1839]])
+*[[September 29]] – [[Machado de Assis]], Brazilian writer (born [[1839 in literature|1839]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Júlia Maria Leonor Scarano|year=1969|title=Grandes Personagens da Nossa História|publisher=Abril Cultural|language=pt|page=780}}</ref>
 *[[November 1]] – [[Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney]], American educator, poet, author, and editor (born [[1823 in literature|1823]])
+*[[November 8]]
-*[[November 8]] – [[Victorien Sardou]], French dramatist (born [[1831 in literature|1831]])
+:*[[Josephine E. Keating]], American literary critic and musician (born [[1838 in literature|1838]])<ref>{{cite book|last1=Willard|first1=Frances Elizabeth|last2=Livermore|first2=Mary Ashton Rice|title=A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_zXEEAAAAYAAJ|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_zXEEAAAAYAAJ/page/n433 429]|edition=Public domain|year=1893|publisher=Moulton}}</ref>
+:*[[Victorien Sardou]], French dramatist (born [[1831 in literature|1831]])<ref>{{cite news| url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1908/11/09/104767355.pdf | work=The New York Times | title=Victorien Sardou, dramatist, dead; Dean of French Playwrights and Creator of Bernhardt's Famous Roles Leaves No Memoirs| date=9 November 1908}}</ref>
 *[[December 5]] – [[Mary H. Graves]], American minister, literary editor, writer (born [[1839 in literature|1839]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Graves|first=Kenneth Vance|title=Samuel Graves, 1630 Settler of Lynn, Massachusetts and His Descendants: Allied Families Include Adsit, Collins, Gilman, Hibbard/Hebbard, Perkins, Smith, Wilson, and Others|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2j5PAAAAMAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Family History Publications|page=97}}</ref>

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