1915 in literature

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

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"."

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 — ""
*P. G. Wodehouse — "Something Fresh"
*Virginia Woolf — "The Voyage Out"

Non-fiction

*Hall Caine — ""

Poetry

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

Awards

* Nobel Prize for Literature: Romain Rolland (French)

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

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