1918 in literature

1918 in literature

The year 1918 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

* The 2nd annual Pulitzer Prizes are awarded.
* Author Hall Caine made a KBE.
*Robert Graves marries Nancy Nicholson. Wedding guests include Wilfred Owen.
*Poet Basil Bunting is imprisoned as a conscientious objector.

New books

*Arnold Bennett - "The Roll-Call"
*Edgar Rice Burroughs - "Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar"
*Willa Cather - "My Ántonia"
*Blaise Cendrars
**"I Have Killed"
**"The Severed Hand"
*Marie Corelli - "The Young Diana"
*Sarah Lee Brown Fleming - "Hope's Highway"
*Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - "Edgewater People"
*Wyndham Lewis - "Tarr"
*Baroness Orczy
**"Flower o' the Lily"
**"The Man in Grey"
*Leo Perutz - "From Nine to Nine"
*Romain Rolland - "Colas Breugnon"
*Booth Tarkington - "The Magnificent Ambersons"
*Mary Augusta Ward - "The War and Elizabeth"
*Rebecca West - "The Return of the Soldier"
*Edith Wharton - "The Marne"

New drama

*John Drinkwater - "Abraham Lincoln"
*James Joyce - "Exiles"
*Baroness Orczy - "The Legion of Honour " adapted from A Sheaf of Bluebells

Poetry

*Guillaume Apollinaire - ""
*Laurence Binyon - "The New World: Poems"
*Walter de la Mare - "The Marionettes"
*Siegfried Sassoon - ""
*Tristan Tzara - "Vingt-cinq poèmes"

Non-fiction

*Henry Adams – "The Education of Henry Adams
*Laurence Binyon – "For Dauntless France"
*Walther Rathenau – "An Deutschlands Jugend"
*Lytton Strachey – "Eminent Victorians"
*Mary Augusta Ward – "A Writer's Recollections"

Births

*January 16
**Stirling Silliphant, writer, producer (+ 1996)
**Philip José Farmer, science fiction writer
* February 1 - Dame Muriel Spark, author
* February 6 - Lothar-Günther Buchheim, author of "Das Boot"
* March 9 - Mickey Spillane, mystery writer
* July 14 - Arthur Laurents, novelist and screenwriter
* August 9 - Robert Aldrich, writer and filmmaker
* August 20 - Jacqueline Susann, best-selling novelist
* October 19 - Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher
* November 29 - Madeleine L'Engle, author of books for children & teens
* December 11 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer
* December 30 - Al Purdy, poet
*"date unknown"
**Peter Opie, expert in children's literature
**Nicholas Moore, poet
**Theodore Cogswell, science fiction author
**Roger Lancelyn Green, biographer

Deaths

*January 28 - John McCrae, war poet
* April 1 - Isaac Rosenberg, poet
* June 10 - Arrigo Boito, poet and composer
* June 26 - Peter Rosegger, poet
* October 5 - Robert Baldwin Ross, friend and literary executor of Oscar Wilde
* November 4
**Wilfred Owen, poet
**Andrew Dickson White, diplomat and author
* November 9 - Guillaume Apollinaire, poet
* December 2 - Edmond Rostand, dramatist
* December 15 - Salvatore Farina, novelist
* "date unknown" - Francis George Fowler, expert on grammar and usage

Awards

* Nobel Prize for Literature: "not awarded"
* Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Jesse Lynch Williams, "Why Marry?"
* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Sara Teasdale: "Love Songs"
* Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Ernest Poole - "His Family"


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