1909 in literature

The year 1909 in literature involved some significant new books.

New books

 * L. Frank Baum - The Road to Oz
 * - Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work (as "Edith Van Dyne")
 * André Billy - La Derive
 * René Boylesve - La Jeune Fille bien élevée
 * Hall Caine - The White Prophet
 * Ion Luca Caragiale - Kir Ianulea
 * Herbert Croly - The Promise of American Life
 * Charles Hoy Fort - The Outcast Manufacturers
 * Anatole France - Balthazar
 * Jacques Futrelle - Elusive Isabel
 * John Galsworthy - Fraternity
 * Jack London - Martin Eden
 * John Masefield - Multitude and Solitude
 * Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Avonlea
 * Baroness Orczy -The Nest of the Sparrowhawk
 * - The Old Man In the Corner
 * Gertrude Stein - Three Lives
 * Gene Stratton-Porter - A Girl of the Limberlost
 * Hermann Sudermann - The Song of Songs
 * Robert Walser &- Jakob von Gunten
 * Mary Augusta Ward - Daphne
 * H.G. Wells - Ann Veronica
 * - Tono-Bungay

New drama

 * John Galsworthy - Strife
 * Ferenc Molnár - Liliom
 * George Bernard Shaw - The Shewing-up Of Blanco Posnet

Poetry

 * Guillaume Apollinaire &mdash; L'Enchanteur Pourrissant
 * François Mauriac &mdash; Les Mains Jointes (Clasped Hands)
 * John Millington Synge &mdash; Poems and Translations

Non-fiction

 * Henry James - Italian Hours
 * William James - A Pluralistic Universe
 * Charlotte Fell Smith - John Dee: 1527-1608

Births

 * January 29 - Phoebe Hesketh, British poet (d. 2005)
 * February 24 - August Derleth, anthologist (d. 1971)
 * February 15 - Miep Gies, Anne Frank friend, biographer
 * March 22 - Gabrielle Roy, French Canadian author (d. 1983)
 * March 28 - Nelson Algren, novelist (d. 1981)
 * March 31 - Robert Brasillach, French author (d. 1945)
 * April 8 - John Fante, novelist (d. 1983)
 * May 1 - Yiannis Ritsos, Greek poet (d. 1990)
 * May 5 - Miklós Radnóti, a Hungarian poet (d. 1944)
 * May 9 - Robert Garioch, poet (d. 1981)
 * June 6 - Sir Isaiah Berlin, philosopher (d. 1997)
 * June 19 - Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (d. 1948)
 * June 28 - Eric Ambler, novelist (d. 1998)
 * July 1 – Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan writer (d. 1994)
 * July 17 - G. P. Wells, son and co-author of H. G. Wells (d. 1985)
 * July 28 - Malcolm Lowry, British novelist (d. 1957)
 * July 30 - C. Northcote Parkinson, British historian and author (d. 1993)
 * August 3 - Walter Van Tilburg Clark, novelist (d. 1971)
 * August 19 - Jerzy Andrzejewski, Polish author (d. 1983)
 * November 26 - Eugène Ionesco, Romanian and French playwright (d. 1994)

Deaths

 * January 14 - Arthur William à Beckett, journalist (b. 1844)
 * February 11 - Russell Sturgis, art critic (b. 1836)
 * March 24 - John Millington Synge, dramatist and poet (b. 1871)
 * March 27 (probable) - John Davidson, poet (b. 1857)
 * April 9 - Francis Marion Crawford, novelist (b. 1854)
 * April 9 - Paschal Grousset, journalist and science fiction writer (b. 1844)
 * April 12 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, British poet (b. 1837)
 * April 26 - Marcus Dods, theologian (b. 1834)
 * May 18 - George Meredith, novelist and poet (b. 1828)
 * June 11 - Jacob Gordin, dramatist (b. 1853)
 * July 8 - Albert Craig, "The Surrey Poet", cricket writer (b. 1850)
 * August 21 - George Cabot Lodge, poet (b. 1873)
 * August 23 - Liu E, novelist (b. 1857)
 * October 24 - Henry Charles Lea, historian (b. 1825)
 * December 14 - Frederick Greenwood, journalist (b. 1830)
 * date unknown
 * H. L. Fischer, translator (b. 1822)

Awards

 * Nobel Prize for Literature: Selma Lagerlöf
 * Newdigate prize: Frank Ashton-Gwatkin

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