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1912 in literature
See also: 1911 in literature, other events of 1912, 1913 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
New Books
- The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - James Weldon Johnson
- Adnams Orchard - Sarah Grand
- Alexander's Bridge - Willa Cather
- Bells and Hobbles (poetry) - Edwin James Brady
- Between two stools - Rhoda Broughton
- The Crock of Gold - James Stephens
- Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
- The Financier - Theodore Dreiser
- The King's Caravan (poetry) - Edwin James Brady
- Marriage - H. G. Wells
- Mrs. Spring - Sui-Sin Far
- A Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- The Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
- The Promised - Land Mary Antin
- The Reef - Edith Wharton
- Riders of the Purple Sage - Zane Grey
- The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad
- Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town - Stephen Leacock
- Theory of Psychoanalysis - Carl Jung
- The Unbearable Bassington - Saki
Births
- January 7 - Charles Addams, cartoonist
- January 14 - Rudolf Hagelstange , German lyricist, narrator and essayist (+ 1984)
- January 30 - Barbara W. Tuchman, historian (+ 1989)
- February 11 - Roy Fuller English poet/novelist
- February 20 - Pierre Boulle, author (+ 1994)
- May 27 - John Cheever, writer
- November 26 - Eugène Ionesco, playwright (+ 1994)
Deaths
- February 12 - R. F. Delderfield, novelist and historian
- April 15 – Jacques Futrelle, American author, died on the RMS Titanic
- April 20 - Bram Stoker, author
- May 14 - August Strindberg, dramatist
Awards
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Nils Gustaf Dalén
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