1916_in_literature

The year 1916 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

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.

New books

• Sherwood Anderson — Windy McPherson\'s Son
• Henri Barbusse — Under Fire
• L. Frank Baum — Rinkitink in Oz
• Adrien Bertrand — L\'Appel du sol
• John Edward Bruce — The Awakening of Hezekiah Jones
• Edgar Rice Burroughs — The Beasts of Tarzan
• Sarah Grand — The Winged Victory
• Louis Hemon — Maria Chapdelaine
• William Dean Howells — The Leatherwood God
• James Joyce — A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• Grace King — The Pleasant Ways of St. Medard
• Ring Lardner — You Know Me
• George Moore — The Brook Kerith: A Syrian Story
• Baroness Orczy — Leatherface
• Booth Tarkington — Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William
• Mark Twain — The Mysterious Stranger
• Mary Augusta Ward
  • England\'s Effort
  • Lady Connie

New drama

• Peretz Hirshbeinn - Grine Felder (Green Fields)
• Sophie Treadwell - Claws

Poetry

• Robert Frost - Mountain Interval
• Antonio Machado - Campos de Castilla (revised edition)
• Carl Sandburg - Chicago Poems
• Gilbert Waterhouse - Rail-Head and other poems (published posthumously)

Non-fiction

• Hall Caine - Our Girls: Their Work for the War
• Albert Einstein - Relativity

Births

• March 4 - Hans Eysenck, psychologist
• April 12 - Beverly Cleary, children\'s author
• April 15 - Helene Hanff, author
• May 21 - Harold Robbins (+ 1997)
• May 28 - Walker Percy (+ 1990)
• July 14 - Natalia Ginzburg, author
• September 13 - Roald Dahl, author
• September 19 - Giles Romilly, journalist
• October 3 - James Herriot, popular author of "vet" stories
• October 16 - David Gascoyne, author and poet
• December 14 - Shirley Jackson, author
• December 17 - Penelope Fitzgerald, novelist
• date unknown - Mary Stewart, novelist

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

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam (Swedish)

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