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The year 1911 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Non-fiction 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Awards

[edit] Events

• George Moore (novelist) publishes the first of his three-volume Hail and Farewell (last in 1914).
• Gallimard publishing house founded in Paris by Gaston Gallimard.
• Britain establishes six copyright libraries to which copies of all books published in the country must be sent: Bodleian Library (Oxford); British Library (London); National Library of Scotland (Edinburgh); National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth); Trinity College, Dublin; and Cambridge University Library.

[edit] New books

• L. Frank Baum - The Sea Fairies
  • - The Daring Twins
  • - Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John (as "Edith Van Dyne")
  • - The Flying Girl (as "Edith Van Dyne")
• Max Beerbohm — Zuleika Dobson
• Arnold Bennett — The Card
• J. D. Beresford — The Hampdenshire Wonder
• Frances Hodgson Burnett — The Secret Garden
• G. K. Chesterton — The Innocence of Father Brown
• Hugh Clifford — The Downfall of the Gods
• Joseph Conrad — Under Western Eyes
• Marie Corelli — Life Everlasting
• Ford Madox Ford — Ladies Whose Bright Eyes
• E. M. Forster — The Celestial Omnibus
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Moving the Mountain
• Eduard von Keyserling — Wellen
• Valery Larbaud — Fermina Márquez
• D. H. Lawrence — The White Peacock
• Gaston Leroux — The Phantom of the Opera
• Baroness Orczy — A True Woman
• Forrest Reid — The Bracknels
• Bram Stoker — The Lair of the White Worm
• Mary Augusta Ward — The Case of Richard Meynell
• H. G. Wells — The New Machiavelli
• Edith Wharton — Ethan Frome
• Owen Wister — Padre Ignacio

[edit] New drama

• George Bernard Shaw - Fanny's First Play
• Emma Orczy - The Duke's Wager
• Stanislavski and Craig's seminal symbolist production of Hamlet opened at the Moscow Arts Theatre

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[edit] Poetry

• Edwin James Brady - River Rovers
• John Masefield - The Everlasting Mercy

[edit] Non-fiction

• Encyclopædia Britannica

[edit] Births

• January 24 - C. L. Moore, science fiction author (d. 1987)
• February 8 - Elizabeth Bishop, poet, Pulitzer Prize winner (d. 1979)
• March 11 - Sir Fitzroy Maclean, Scottish diplomat, adventurer, writer and politician (d. 1996)
• March 26 - Tennessee Williams, playwright (d. 1983)
• April 8 - Emil Cioran, Romanian-born French philosopher and essayist (d. 1995)
• May 20 - Annie M. G. Schmidt, Dutch children's author (d. 1995)
• June 6 - Verna Aardema, children's author (d. 2000)
• July 21 - Marshall McLuhan - author (d. 1980)
• November 19 - Mary Elizabeth Counselman - American author and poet (d. 1995)
• December 11 - Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel prize-winning Egyptian novelist (d. 2006)
• December 25 - Noel Langley, screenwriter (d. 1980)

[edit] Deaths

• January 23 - David Graham Phillips, journalist and novelist (b. 1867)
• February 7 - Hannah Whitall Smith, Quaker author (b. 1832)
• May 9 - Thomas Wentworth Higginson, literary mentor of Emily Dickinson (b. 1823)
• May 29 - W. S. Gilbert, librettist, dramatist (b. 1836)
• October 8 - Hesba Stretton, author (b. 1832)
• October 29 - Joseph Pulitzer (b. 1847)
• November 9 - Howard Pyle, children's author (b. 1853)

[edit] Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck, Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist