1910 in literature - Definition

See also: 1909 in literature, other events of 1910, 1911 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New Books

• Canadian Born — Mary Augusta Ward
• The Devil and the Deep Sea — Rhoda Broughton
• The Emerald City of Oz — L. Frank Baum
• Heritage of the Desert — Zane Grey
• The History of Mr. Polly — H.G. Wells
• Howards End — E. M. Forster
• La Vagabonde — Colette
• Pelle the Conqueror (final volume) — Martin Andersen Nexø
• The Return — Walter de la Mare
• Twenty Years at Hull House — Jane Addams
• The Village — Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin
• What's Wrong With The World — G. K. Chesterton
• The Woman Thou Gavest Me — Hall Caine
• Cinq Grandes Odes — Paul Claudel

Births

• February 6 - Irmgard Keun, author (d. 1982)
• July 14 - Vincent Brome, biographer and novellist (d. 2004)
• December 19 - Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright and poet
• December 24 - Jean-Paul Crespelle, French writer
• December 24 - Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr., American writer of fantasy and science fiction

Deaths

• April 21 - Mark Twain, writer
• August 26 - William James, author
• November 20 - Leo Tolstoy, novelist

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse