1913 IN LITERATURE

The year '1913 in literature' involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Events

★ Husayn Haykal publishes the first modern Egyptian novel ''Zaynab''.

New books

★ Alain-Fournier — ''Le Grand Meaulnes''

★ L. Frank Baum — ''The Patchwork Girl of Oz''

★ Edgar Rice Burroughs — ''Tarzan of the Apes''

★ Hall Caine — ''The Woman Thou Gavest Me''

★ Willa Cather — ''O Pioneers!''

★ Arthur Conan Doyle — ''The Poison Belt''

★ Ellen Glasgow — ''Virginia''

★ Husayn Haykal — ''Zaynab''

★ Henry James — ''A Small Boy and Others''

★ Katherine James — ''A City of Contrasts''

★ Franz Kafka — ''The Judgement''

★ D. H. Lawrence — ''Sons and Lovers''

★ Jack London — ''The Valley of the Moon''

★ Flora Mayor — ''Third Miss Symons''

★ Oscar Micheaux — ''

★ Baroness Orczy — ''Eldorado''

★ Elsie Singmaster — ''Gettysburg''

★ Vincent Cartwright Vickers — ''The Google Book''

★ Mary Augusta Ward — ''The Mating of Lydia'', ''The Coryston Family''

★ Hugh Walpole — ''Fortitude''

★ Edith Wharton — ''The Custom of the Country''

New drama

★ George Bernard Shaw—''Pygmalion''

Poetry

★ Guillaume Apollinaire—''Alcools''

★ Robert Frost—''A Boy's Will''

★ Siegfried Sassoon—''The Daffodil Murderer''

Non-fiction

★ Guillaume Apollinaire—''The Cubist Painters''

★ Walter Lippmann—''A Preface to Politics''

★ Alfred North Whitehead & Bertrand Russell—''Principia Mathematica''

Births

★ January 29 - Peter von Zahn, journalist and writer (+ 2001)

★ March 2 - Godfried Bomans, Dutch writer (+ 1971

★ August 28 - Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (+ 1995)

★ November 7 - Albert Camus, writer (+ 1960)

★ December 27 - Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist (+ 1986)

Deaths

★ February 13 - Charles Major

★ June 2 - Alfred Austin, Poet Laureate of England

Awards

★ Nobel Prize for Literature: Rabindranath Tagore

★ Newdigate prize: Maurice Roy Ridley