1907 in literature

The year 1907 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

 * June 26 - Mark Twain receives an honorary doctorate of laws degree from Oxford University.
 * James Joyce meets Ettore Schmitz for the first time.
 * Elizabeth Bowen moves with her mother from Ireland to England.
 * Deluxe edition of Margarete Böhme's Tagebuch einer Verlorenen published, marking 100,000 copies in print.

New books

 * L. Frank Baum - Father Goose's Year Book
 * - Ozma of Oz
 * - Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad (as "Edith Van Dyne")
 * - Policeman Bluejay (as "Laura Bancroft")
 * Arnold Bennett -The City of Pleasure
 * André Billy - Benoni
 * Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Dead Love Has Chains
 * Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent
 * Charles Derennes - Le Peuple du Pôle
 * Jeffery Farnol - My Lady Caprice
 * E. M. Forster - The Longest Journey
 * Elinor Glyn - Three Weeks
 * William Dean Howells - Through the Eye of the Needle
 * Liu E - Lao Ts'an yu-chi (The Travels of Lao Ts'an)
 * Arthur Machen - The Hill of Dreams
 * Octave Mirbeau - La 628-E8
 * Baroness Orczy - Beau Brocade
 * ''The Tangled Skein
 * Beatrix Potter - The Tale of Tom Kitten
 * Upton Sinclair - The Overman
 * Edith Wharton - Madame de Treymes
 * Owen Wister - The Seven Ages of Washington
 * P. G. Wodehouse - Not George Washington
 * Harold Bell Wright - The Shepherd of the Hills

New drama

 * Georges Feydeau - A Flea in Her Ear
 * John Millington Synge - The Playboy of the Western World

Poetry

 * James Elroy Flecker - The Bridge of Fire
 * Robert W. Service - The Songs of a Sourdough

Non-fiction

 * John Millington Synge - The Aran Islands
 * George Witton - Scapegoats of the Empire

Births

 * February 1 - Günter Eich, German lyricist (d. 1972)
 * February 3 (probable) - James A. Michener, American novelist (d. 1997)
 * February 21 - W. H. Auden, English poet (d. 1973)
 * March 13 - Mircea Eliade, Romanian writer  (d. 1986)
 * May 12 - Leslie Charteris, The Saint author (d. 1993)
 * May 13 - Daphne du Maurier, Cornish writer (d. 1989)
 * May 27 - Rachel Carson, American author of Silent Spring (d. 1964)
 * June 14 - René Char, French poet (d. 1988)
 * July 7 - Robert A. Heinlein, American author (d. 1988)
 * August 12 - Miguel Torga, Portuguese author (d. 1995)
 * August 17 - Roger Peyrefitte, French author (d. 2000)
 * August 28 - Rupert Hart-Davis, British editor and publisher (d. 1999)
 * September 23 - Pauline Réage, French erotic novelist (d. 1998)
 * October 15 - Varian Fry, American journalist (d. 1967)
 * November 14 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author of children's books (d. 2002)
 * November 27 - L. Sprague de Camp, American science fiction and fantasy author (d. 2000)
 * November 28 - Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist (d. 1990)
 * November 28 - Mary Oppen, American poet, activist, photographer (d. 1990)
 * December 10 - Rumer Godden, English novelist (d. 1998)
 * December 18 - Christopher Fry, English dramatist (d. 2005)

Deaths

 * January 20 - Agnes Mary Clerke, English author on astronomy (b. 1842)
 * March 9 - Frederic George Stephens, critic and member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (b. 1828)
 * March 19 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, poet and novelist (b. 1836)
 * April 23 - André Theuriet, French poet and novelist (b. 1833
 * May 12 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (b. 1848)
 * July 17 - Hector Malot, French author (b. 1830)
 * July 19 - William Gunion Rutherford, Scottish classical commentator (b. 1853)
 * September 6 - Sully Prudhomme, French poet and essayist; 1st Nobel Prize winner (b. 1839)
 * September 7 - Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, Romanian philologist (b. 1836)
 * October 6 - David Masson, Scottish critic and biographer (b. 1822)
 * November 1 - Alfred Jarry, French dramatist (b. 1873)
 * November 28 - Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet and painter (b. 1869)

Awards

 * Nobel Prize for Literature: Rudyard Kipling

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