1916 in literature

1916 in literature

The year 1916 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

* The Journal of Negro History is founded by Carter Godwin Woodson, the father of "Black History" and "Negro History Week."
* During the summer, 15-year-old Margaret Mitchell writes the manuscript to a novella called "Lost Laysen" in two notebooks. She would later give the manuscript to a boyfriend and the book would remain lost until it was rediscovered in the mid-1990s and finally published in 1996. Meanwhile, Mitchell would go on to write "Gone with the Wind".

New books

*Sherwood Anderson — "Windy McPherson's Son"
*Henri Barbusse — "Under Fire"
*L. Frank Baum — "Rinkitink in Oz"
*Adrien Bertrand — "L'Appel du sol"
*John Edward Bruce — "The Awakening of Hezekiah Jones"
*Edgar Rice Burroughs — "The Beasts of Tarzan"
*Sarah Grand — "The Winged Victory"
*Louis Hemon — "Maria Chapdelaine"
*William Dean Howells — "The Leatherwood God"
*James Joyce — "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
*Grace King — "The Pleasant Ways of St. Medard"
*Ring Lardner — "You Know Me"
*George Moore — ""
*Baroness Orczy — "Leatherface"
*Booth Tarkington — "
*Mark Twain — "The Mysterious Stranger"
*Mary Augusta Ward
**"England's Effort"
**"Lady Connie"

New drama

*Peretz Hirshbeinn - "Grine Felder (Green Fields)"
*Sophie Treadwell - "Claws"

Poetry

*Robert Frost - "Mountain Interval"
*Antonio Machado - "Campos de Castilla" (revised edition)
*Carl Sandburg - "Chicago Poems"
*Gilbert Waterhouse - "Rail-Head and other poems" (published posthumously)

Non-fiction

*Hall Caine - ""
*Albert Einstein - "Relativity"

Births

* March 4 - Hans Eysenck, psychologist
* April 12 - Beverly Cleary, children's author
* April 15 - Helene Hanff, author
* May 21 - Harold Robbins (+ 1997)
* May 28 - Walker Percy (+ 1990)
* July 14 - Natalia Ginzburg, author
* September 13 - Roald Dahl, author
* September 19 - Giles Romilly, journalist
* October 3 - James Herriot, popular author of "vet" stories
* October 16 - David Gascoyne, author and poet
* December 14 - Shirley Jackson, author
* December 17 - Penelope Fitzgerald, novelist
* "date unknown" - Mary Stewart, novelist

Deaths

* February 6 - Rubén Darío, writer
* February 28 - Henry James, writer
* April 26 - Mário de Sá-Carneiro, novelist and poet
* May 3 - Patrick Pearse, poet and Irish nationalist leader
* May 13 - Sholom Aleichem, Yiddish humorist
* May 31 - Gorch Fock, poet and novelist
* July 1 - Gilbert Waterhouse, war poet
* August 8 - Lily Braun, feminist writer
* September 22 - Edward Wyndham Tennant, war poet
* October 7 - James Whitcomb Riley, poet
* October 25 - John Todhunter, poet and dramatist
* November 14 - Saki, author
* November 15 - Molly Elliot Seawell, novelist
* November 22 - Jack London, novelist
* November 27 - Emile Verhaeren, Symbolist poet
* "date unknown" - Olindo Guerrini, poet
* "date unknown" - Émile Faguet, critic
* "date unknown" - Petar Kočić, poet

Awards

* Nobel Prize for Literature: Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam (Swedish)


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