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1912 in literature

See also: 1911 in literature, other events of 1912, 1913 in literature, list of years in literature.

1912 in literature - Events

• Virginia Stephen marries Leonard Woolf.

1912 in literature - 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 Lost World - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• 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
• The Trespasser - D. H. Lawrence
• The Unbearable Bassington - Saki

1912 in literature - New drama

• Hugo von Hofmannsthal - Jedermann

1912 in literature - Poetry

• The King's Caravan - Edwin James Brady

1912 in literature - Non-fiction

• Carl Jung - Theory of Psychoanalysis

1912 in literature - 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
• 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

1912 in literature - Deaths

• January 28 - Gustave de Molinari, economist
• March 1 - George Grossmith, co-author of Diary of a Nobody
• 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

1912 in literature - Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Nils Gustaf Dalén

Category: 1912 books

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