The year 1916 in literature involved some significant events and new books. [edit] Events - The Journal of Negro History is founded by Carter Godwin Woodson, the father of "Black History" and "Negro History Week."
- During the summer, 15-year-old Margaret Mitchell writes the manuscript to a novella called Lost Laysen in two notebooks. She would later give the manuscript to a boyfriend and the book would remain lost until it was rediscovered in the mid-1990s and finally published in 1996. Meanwhile, Mitchell would go on to write Gone with the Wind.
[edit] New books [edit] New drama [edit] Short stories [edit] Poetry Main article: 1916 in poetry[edit] Non-fiction [edit] Births - March 4 - Hans Eysenck, psychologist (d. 1997)
- April 12 - Beverly Cleary, children's author
- April 15 - Helene Hanff, author (d. 1997)
- May 21 - Harold Robbins (d. 1997)
- May 28 - Walker Percy (d. 1990)
- July 14 - Natalia Ginzburg, author (d. 1991)
- September 13 - Roald Dahl, author (d. 1990)
- September 19 - Giles Romilly, journalist (d. 1967)
- October 3 - James Herriot, popular author of "vet" stories (d. 1995)
- October 16 - David Gascoyne, author and poet (d. 2001)
- December 14 - Shirley Jackson, author (d. 1965)
- December 17 - Penelope Fitzgerald, novelist (d. 2000)
- date unknown - Mary Stewart, novelist
[edit] Deaths - February 6 - Rubén Darío, writer
- February 28 - Henry James, writer
- April 26 - Mário de Sá-Carneiro, novelist and poet
- May 3 - Patrick Pearse, poet and Irish nationalist leader
- May 13 - Sholom Aleichem, Yiddish humorist
- May 31 - Gorch Fock, poet and novelist
- July 1 - Gilbert Waterhouse, war poet
- August 8 - Lily Braun, feminist writer
- September 22 - Edward Wyndham Tennant, war poet
- October 7 - James Whitcomb Riley, poet
- October 25 - John Todhunter, poet and dramatist
- November 14 - Saki, author
- November 15 - Molly Elliot Seawell, novelist
- November 22 - Jack London, novelist
- November 27 - Emile Verhaeren, Symbolist poet
- date unknown - Olindo Guerrini, poet
- date unknown - Émile Faguet, critic
- date unknown - Petar Kočić, poet
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