1918 in literature - Definition

See also: 1917 in literature, other events of 1918, 1919 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• First Pulitzer Prizes awarded

• Author Hall Caine made a KBE.

• The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington is published.

New Books

• - Guillaume Apollinaire
• Colas Breugnon - Romain Rolland
• Edgewater People - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• Eminent Victorians - Lytton Strachey
• Hope's Highway - Sarah Lee Brown Fleming
• I Have Killed - Blaise Cendrars
• The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington
• The Marne - Edith Wharton
• My Ántonia - Willa Cather
• The Severed Hand - Blaise Cendrars
• The War and Elizabeth - Mary Augusta Ward
• A Writer's Recollections - Mary Augusta Ward
• The Young Diana - Marie Corelli

Births

• January 16
  • Stirling Silliphant, writer, producer (+ 1996)
  • Philip José Farmer, science fiction writer
• February 1 - Dame Muriel Spark, author
• February 6 - Lothar-Günther Buchheim, author of Das Boot
• March 9 - Mickey Spillane, mystery writer
• October 19 - Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher
• November 29 - Madeleine L'Engle, author of books for children & teens
• December 11 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer

Deaths

• June 10 - Arrigo Boito, poet and composer
• November 9 - Guillaume Apollinaire, poet

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: not awarded
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Jesse Lynch Williams, Why Marry?
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Sara Teasdale: Love Songs
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Ernest Poole - His Family