See also: 1916 in literature, other events of 1917, 1918 in literature, list of years in literature.

Contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• June 4 - The very first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott , and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for a biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days . Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.
• December 25 - Why Marry? , first dramatic play to win a Pulitzer Prize, opens at the Astor Theatre in New York City.

New Books

• Canada at Flanders - Max Aitken
• A Daughter of the Morning - Zona Gale
• Ethiopia, The Land of Promise - Clayton Adams
• His Family - Ernest Poole
• The Homesteader - Oscar Micheaux
• The Job - Sinclair Lewis
• Knights of Araby - Marmaduke Pickthall
• The Leopard's Claw - George Washington Ellis
• The Man With Two Left Feet - P. G. Wodehouse
• Missing - Mary Augusta Ward
• On Growth and Form - D'Arcy Thompson
• Prufrock and Other Observations - T. S. Eliot
• The Rise of David Levinsky - Abraham Cahan
• South Wind - Norman Douglas
• Summer - Edith Wharton
• - David Graham Phillips
• A Thorn in the Flesh - Rhoda Broughton
• The Three Black Pennys - Joseph Hergesheimer
• Towards the Goal - Mary Augusta Ward
• Under Fire - Henri Barbusse
• Under One Roof - Mary Cholmondeley

Births

• February 11 - Sidney Sheldon, novelist
• December 21 - Heinrich Böll, German author, Nobel Prize winner

Deaths

• January 15 - William de Morgan , novelist
• April 21 - Francis Burnand , dramatist and editor of "Punch"

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan