1916 in literature
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See also: 1915 in literature, other events of 1916, 1917 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[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
- 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
- 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
- Mark Twain — The Mysterious Stranger
- Mary Augusta Ward
[edit] New drama
[edit] 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)
[edit] Non-fiction
[edit] 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
[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
