1918 in literature

The year 1918 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

 * The 2nd annual Pulitzer Prizes are awarded.
 * Author Hall Caine made a KBE.
 * Robert Graves marries Nancy Nicholson. Wedding guests include Wilfred Owen.
 * Poet Basil Bunting is imprisoned as a conscientious objector.

New books

 * Arnold Bennett - The Roll-Call
 * Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
 * Willa Cather - My Ántonia
 * Blaise Cendrars
 * I Have Killed
 * The Severed Hand
 * Marie Corelli - The Young Diana
 * Sarah Lee Brown Fleming - Hope's Highway
 * Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - Edgewater People
 * "Owen Gregory" - Meccania the Super-State
 * Wyndham Lewis - Tarr
 * Baroness Orczy
 * Flower o' the Lily
 * The Man in Grey
 * Leo Perutz - From Nine to Nine
 * Romain Rolland - Colas Breugnon
 * Booth Tarkington - The Magnificent Ambersons
 * Mary Augusta Ward - The War and Elizabeth
 * Rebecca West - The Return of the Soldier
 * Edith Wharton - The Marne

New drama

 * Bertolt Brecht - Baal (written)
 * John Drinkwater - Abraham Lincoln
 * Susan Glaspell - Tickless Time
 * Hugo von Hofmannsthal - The Difficult Man
 * James Joyce - Exiles
 * Georg Kaiser - Gas
 * Vladimir Mayakovsky - Mystery Bouffe
 * Emma Orczy - The Legion of Honour (adaptation of A Sheaf of Bluebells)

Short stories

 * Ryūnosuke Akutagawa - Hell Screen

Poetry

 * Guillaume Apollinaire - Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War
 * Laurence Binyon - The New World: Poems
 * Walter de la Mare - The Marionettes
 * Siegfried Sassoon - Counter-Attack
 * Tristan Tzara - Vingt-cinq poèmes

Non-fiction

 * Henry Adams – ''The Education of Henry Adams
 * Laurence Binyon – For Dauntless France
 * Walther Rathenau – An Deutschlands Jugend
 * Lytton Strachey – Eminent Victorians
 * Oswald Spengler – The Decline of the West
 * Mary Augusta Ward – A Writer's Recollections

Births

 * January 16
 * Stirling Silliphant, writer, producer (d. 1996)
 * Philip José Farmer, science fiction writer (d. 2009)
 * February 1 - Dame Muriel Spark, author (d. 2006)
 * February 6 - Lothar-Günther Buchheim, author of Das Boot (d. 2007)
 * March 9 - Mickey Spillane, mystery writer (d. 2006)
 * March 10 - Theodore Cogswell, science fiction author (d. 1987)
 * May 16 - Juan Rulfo, Mexican author (d. 1986)
 * July 14 - Arthur Laurents, novelist and screenwriter
 * August 9 - Robert Aldrich, writer and filmmaker (d. 1983)
 * August 20 - Jacqueline Susann, best-selling novelist (d. 1974)
 * October 19 - Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher (d. 1990)
 * November 2 - Roger Lancelyn Green, biographer (d. 1987)
 * November 16 - Nicholas Moore, poet (d. 1986)
 * November 29 - Madeleine L'Engle, author of books for children & teens (d. 2007)
 * December 11 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer (d. 2008)
 * December 30 - Al Purdy, poet (d. 2000)
 * date unknown
 * November - Peter Opie, expert in children's literature (d. 1982)

Deaths

 * January 28 - John McCrae, war poet
 * April 1 - Isaac Rosenberg, poet
 * June 10 - Arrigo Boito, poet and composer
 * June 26 - Peter Rosegger, poet
 * October 5 - Robert Baldwin Ross, friend and literary executor of Oscar Wilde
 * November 4
 * Wilfred Owen, poet
 * Andrew Dickson White, diplomat and author
 * November 9 - Guillaume Apollinaire, poet
 * December 2 - Edmond Rostand, dramatist
 * December 15 - Salvatore Farina, novelist
 * date unknown - Francis George Fowler, expert on grammar and usage
 * date unknown - Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg, Austrian writer and traveller

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