1912 in literature
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The year 1912 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- Virginia Stephen marries Leonard Woolf.
- Frieda von Richthofen meets D. H. Lawrence.
[edit] New books
- Mary Antin - The Promised Land
- Rhoda Broughton - Between Two Stools
- Edgar Rice Burroughs - A Princess of Mars
- Willa Cather - Alexander's Bridge
- Joseph Conrad - The Secret Sharer
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Lost World
- Theodore Dreiser - The Financier
- Sarah Grand - Adnams Orchard
- Zane Grey - Riders of the Purple Sage
- James Weldon Johnson - The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
- D. H. Lawrence - The Trespasser
- Stephen Leacock - Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
- Thomas Mann - Death in Venice (Der Tod in Venedig)
- Baroness Orczy
- The Traitor
- The Good Patriots
- Fire in Stubble
- Meadowsweet
- Saki - The Unbearable Bassington
- James Stephens - The Crock of Gold
- Sui Sin Far - Mrs. Spring Fragrance
- H. G. Wells - Marriage
- Edith Wharton - The Reef
- Stefan Żeromski - The Faithful River
[edit] New drama
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal - Jedermann
[edit] Poetry
- Edwin James Brady
- Bells and Hobbles
- The King's Caravan
- Georgian Poetry 1911-12
- Amy Lowell - A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass
[edit] Non-fiction
- Alexander Berkman - Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
- Carl Jung - Theory of Psychoanalysis
- Bertrand Russell - The Problems of Philosophy
[edit] 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
- August 4 - Virgilio Piñera, poet and short-story writer
- 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
[edit] Deaths
- January 28 - Gustave de Molinari, economist
- March 1 - George Grossmith, co-author of Diary of a Nobody
- April 6 - Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet
- 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
