1906 in literature

1906 in literature

The year 1906 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

* December 24 - Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio program, a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech, broadcasts

New books

*Henry Adams - "The Education of Henry Adams"
*Pio Baroja - "King Paradox"
*Rex Beach - "The Spoilers"
*Hall Caine - ""
*Paul Carus - "Amitabha"
*Mary Cholmondeley - "Prisoners"
*Joseph Conrad - "The Mirror of the Sea"
*William de Morgan - "Joseph Vance"
*Arthur Conan Doyle - "Sir Nigel"
*Ford Madox Ford - "The Fifth Queen"
*Zona Gale - "Romance Island"
*John Galsworthy - "The Man of Property"
*Ellen Glasgow - "The Wheel of Life"
*Elinor Glyn - "Beyond the Rocks"
*Remy de Gourmont - "A Night in the Luxembourg"
*O. Henry - "The Four Million"
*Hermann Hesse - "Beneath the Wheel"
*Selma Lagerlöf - "The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgerson"
*Arthur Machen - "The House of Souls"
*George Moore (novelist) - "My Dead Life"
*Edith Nesbit
**"The Railway Children"
**"The Story of the Amulet"
*Baroness Orczy
**"I Will Repay (novel)
**"A Son of the People
*Felix Salten (attributed) - "Josephine Mutzenbacher"
*Upton Sinclair - "The Jungle"
*Natsume Sōseki - "Botchan"
*Frank Thiess - "Men At War"
*Mark Twain - "What Is Man?"
*Mary Augusta Ward - "Fenwick's Career"
*H. G. Wells - "In the Days of the Comet"
*Owen Wister - "Lady Baltimore"

New drama

*John Galsworthy - "The Silver Box"
*Harley Granville-Barker - "Waste"
*George Barr McCutcheon - "Brewster's Millions", theatrical adaptation
*Baroness Orczy - "The Sin of William Jackson

Non-fiction

*Hall Caine - "My Story"

Births

* January 22 - Robert E. Howard, American fantasy author (d. 1936)
* January 23 - Anya Seton, American romantic author (d. 1990)
* February 15 - Musa Calil, poet
* March 25 - A.J.P. Taylor, historian
* April 13 - Samuel Beckett, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1969
* June 20 - Catherine Cookson, best-selling novelist
* July 18 - Clifford Odets, dramatist
* August 30 - Elizabeth Longford, biographer
* September 25 - Franklin Garrett, historian of Atlanta
* October 10 - R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
* October 14 - Hannah Arendt, German/US intellectual

Deaths

* February 9 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet
* March 2 - Ellen Mary Clerke, novelist
* April 6 - Alexander Kielland, Norwegian novelist (b. 1849)
* April 11 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher
* April 14 - Nora Chesson, poet
* May 23 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (b. 1828)
* June 29 - Albert Sorel, historian
* June 30 - Jean Lorrain, Symbolist poet
* December 6 - Anne Ross Cousin, poet

Awards

* Nobel Prize for Literature: Giosuè Carducci


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