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1918 in literature
See also:
1917 in literature
,
other events of 1918
,
1919 in literature
,
list of years in literature
.
Table of contents
1 Events
2 New Books
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Awards
Events
First
Pulitzer Prizes
awarded
Author
Hall Caine
made a
Knight of the British Empire[?]
.
The Magnificent Ambersons
by
Booth Tarkington
is published. In
2001
, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the
American Modern Library
.
New Books
Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War[?]
-
Guillaume Apollinaire
Colas Breugnon[?]
-
Romain Rolland
Edgewater People[?]
-
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman[?]
Eminent Victorians
-
Lytton Strachey
Hope's Highway[?]
-
Sarah Lee Brown Fleming[?]
I Have Killed[?]
-
Blaise Cendrars
The Magnificent Ambersons
-
Booth Tarkington
The Marne[?]
-
Edith Wharton
My Ántonia[?]
-
Willa Cather
The Severed Hand[?]
-
Blaise Cendrars
The War and Elizabeth[?]
-
Mary Augusta Ward
A Writer's Recollections[?]
-
Mary Augusta Ward
The Young Diana[?]
-
Marie Corelli
Births
January 16
-
Stirling Silliphant[?]
, writer, producer (+
1996
)
Philip Jose Farmer
,
science fiction
writer
February 1
- Dame
Muriel Spark
, author
February 6
-
Lothar-Günther Buchheim[?]
, author of
Das Boot
March 9
-
Mickey Spillane
, mystery writer
October 19
-
Louis Althusser
, French Marxist philosopher
November 29
-
Madeleine L'Engle[?]
, author of books for children & teens
December 11
-
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
, Russian writer
Deaths
June 10
-
Arrigo Boito
,
poet
and
composer
November 9
-
Guillaume Apollinaire
, poet
Awards
Nobel Prize for Literature
:
not awarded
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
:
Jesse Lynch Williams
,
Why Marry?
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
:
Sara Teasdale[?]
:
Love Songs
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel
:
Ernest Poole[?]
-
His Family
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