1912 in literature

1912 in literature

The year 1912 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

*Virginia Stephen marries Leonard Woolf.
*Frieda von Richthofen meets D. H. Lawrence.

New books

*Mary Antin - "The Promised Land"
*Rhoda Broughton - "Between Two Stools"
*Edgar Rice Burroughs - "A Princess of Mars"
*Willa Cather - "Alexander's Bridge"
*Joseph Conrad - "The Secret Sharer"
*Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - "The Lost World"
*Theodore Dreiser - "The Financier"
*Sarah Grand - "Adnams Orchard"
*Zane Grey - "Riders of the Purple Sage"
*James Weldon Johnson - "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man"
*D. H. Lawrence - "The Trespasser"
*Stephen Leacock - "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town"
*Thomas Mann - "Death in Venice (Der Tod in Venedig)"
*Baroness Orczy
**"The Traitor"
**"The Good Patriots"
**"Fire in Stubble"
**"Meadowsweet"
*Saki - "The Unbearable Bassington"
*James Stephens - "The Crock of Gold"
*Sui Sin Far - "Mrs. Spring Fragrance"
*H. G. Wells - "Marriage"
*Edith Wharton - "The Reef"
*Stefan Żeromski - "The Faithful River"

New drama

*Hugo von Hofmannsthal - "Jedermann"

Poetry

*Edwin James Brady
**"Bells and Hobbles"
**"The King's Caravan"
*"Georgian Poetry 1911-12"
*Amy Lowell - "A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass"

Non-fiction

*Alexander Berkman - "Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist"
*Carl Jung - "Theory of Psychoanalysis"
*Bertrand Russell - "The Problems of Philosophy"

Births

* January 7 - Charles Addams, cartoonist (d. 1988)
* January 14 - Rudolf Hagelstange, German lyricist, narrator and essayist (d. 1984)
* January 30 - Barbara Tuchman, historian (d. 1989)
* February 11 - Roy Fuller English poet/novelist (d. 1991)
* February 12 - R. F. Delderfield, novelist and historian (d. 1972)
* February 17 - Andre Norton, sci-fi and fantasy author
* February 20 - Pierre Boulle, novelist (d. 1994)
* February 27 - Lawrence Durrell, poet and novelist
* March 12 - Kylie Tennant, novelist, dramatist and historian
* May 3 - May Sarton, American writer (d. 1995)
* May 16 - Studs Terkel, writer and broadcaster
* May 20 - J. L. Carr, novelist and publisher
* May 27 - John Cheever, writer (d. 1982)
* May 29 - Pamela Hansford Johnson, poet, novelist and critic, and wife of C. P. Snow
* June 20 - Anthony Buckeridge, children's author
* June 29 - John Toland, Pulitzer-winning historian and biographer
* July 6 - Heinrich Harrer, explorer and author ("Seven Years in Tibet")
* July 14 - Northrop Frye, critic
* August 4 - Virgilio Piñera, poet and short-story writer
* September 12 - J. F. Hendry, poet
* November 24 - Garson Kanin, dramatist and screenwriter
* November 26 - Eugène Ionesco, playwright (d. 1994)
* "date unknown" - George Mikes, humorist
* "date unknown" - Monica Edwards, children's author
* "date unknown" - Francis Durbridge, dramatist

Deaths

* January 28 - Gustave de Molinari, economist
* March 1 - George Grossmith, co-author of "Diary of a Nobody"
* April 6 - Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet
* April 10 - Gabriel Monod, historian
* April 15 – Jacques Futrelle, American author, died on the RMS "Titanic"
* April 15 - William Thomas Stead, journalist, also on the "Titanic"
* April 20 - Bram Stoker, author
* May 14 - August Strindberg, dramatist
* July 20 - Andrew Lang, poet, novelist and critic
* August 29 - Theodor Gomperz, philosopher
* "date unknown" - James Allen, author of "As a Man Thinketh"
* "date unknown" - Hafiz Ibrahim, Egyptian poet

Awards

* Nobel Prize for Literature: Gerhart Hauptmann


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