1912 in literature
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See also: 1911 in literature, other events of 1912, 1913 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New Books

• The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - James Weldon Johnson
• Adnams Orchard - Sarah Grand
• Alexander's Bridge - Willa Cather
• Bells and Hobbles (poetry) - Edwin James Brady
• Between two stools - Rhoda Broughton
• The Crock of Gold - James Stephens
• Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
• The Financier - Theodore Dreiser
• The King's Caravan (poetry) - Edwin James Brady
• Mrs. Spring - Sui-Sin Far
• A Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
• The Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
• The Promised - Land Mary Antin
• The Reef - Edith Wharton
• Riders of the Purple Sage - Zane Grey
• The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad
• Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town - Stephen Leacock
• Theory of Psychoanalysis - Carl Jung
• The Unbearable Bassington - Saki

Births

• January 7 - Charles Addams, cartoonist
• January 14 - Rudolf Hagelstange, German lyricist, narrator and essayist (+ 1984)
• January 30 - Barbara W. Tuchman, historian (+ 1989)
• February 11 - Roy Fuller English poet/novelist
• February 20 - Pierre Boulle, author (+ 1994)
• May 27 - John Cheever, writer
• November 26 - Eugène Ionesco, playwright (+ 1994)

Deaths

• April 20 - Bram Stoker, author
• May 14 - August Strindberg, writer

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Nils Gustaf Dalén

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