1911 in literature - Definition

See also: 1910 in literature, other events of 1911, 1912 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Encyclopædia Britannica published.

• George Moore (novelist) publishes the first of his 3-volume Hail and Farewell (last in 1914).

• Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm is published.

• Gallimard publishing house founded in Paris, France by Gaston Gallimard

New books

• The Bracknels - Forrest Reid
• The Card - Arnold Bennett
• The Case of Richard Meynell - Mary Augusta Ward
• The Downfall of the Gods - Hugh Clifford
• Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
• The Innocence of Father Brown - G. K. Chesterton
• The Lair of the White Worm - Bram Stoker
• The Phantom of the Opera — Gaston Leroux
• Ladies Whose Bright Eyes - Ford Madox Ford
• Life Everlasting - Marie Corelli
• The New Machiavelli - H. G. Wells
• Padre Ignacio - Owen Wister
• River Rovers (poetry) - Edwin James Brady
• The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Zuleika Dobson - Max Beerbohm

Births

• January 24 - C. L. Moore, science fiction author
• February 8 - Elizabeth Bishop, poet, Pulitzer Prize winner (+ 1979)
• March 26 - Tennessee Williams, playwright
• April 8 - Emil Cioran, Romanian-born French philosopher and essayist (+ 1995)
• May 20 - Annie M. G. Schmidt, Dutch children books writer
• July 21 - Marshall McLuhan - author (+ 1980)
• December 11 - Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel prize-winning Egyptian novelist.

Deaths

• January 23 - David Graham Phillips, journalist / novelist
• October 8 - Hesba Stretton, author
• October 29 - Joseph Pulitzer
• Ewin Austin Abbey, author

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck