1912 in literature

The year 1912 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

 * Virginia Stephen marries Leonard Woolf.
 * Frieda von Richthofen meets D. H. Lawrence.

New books

 * Mary Antin - The Promised Land
 * L. Frank Baum - Sky Island
 * - Phoebe Daring
 * - Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation (as "Edith Van Dyne")
 * - The Flying Girl and Her Chum (as "Edith Van Dyne")
 * Rhoda Broughton - Between Two Stools
 * Ivan Bunin - Dry Valley
 * Edgar Rice Burroughs - A Princess of Mars
 * Willa Cather - Alexander's Bridge
 * Joseph Conrad - The Secret Sharer
 * Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Lost World
 * Theodore Dreiser - The Financier
 * Sarah Grand - Adnams Orchard
 * Zane Grey - Riders of the Purple Sage
 * James Weldon Johnson - The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
 * D. H. Lawrence - The Trespasser
 * Stephen Leacock - Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
 * Thomas Mann - Death in Venice (Der Tod in Venedig)
 * E. Nesbit - The Magic World
 * Baroness Orczy
 * The Traitor
 * The Good Patriots
 * Fire in Stubble
 * Meadowsweet
 * Saki - The Unbearable Bassington
 * James Stephens - The Crock of Gold
 * Sui Sin Far - Mrs. Spring Fragrance
 * H. G. Wells - Marriage
 * Edith Wharton - The Reef
 * Stefan Żeromski - The Faithful River

New drama

 * Hugo von Hofmannsthal - Everyman

Poetry

 * Edwin James Brady
 * Bells and Hobbles
 * The King's Caravan
 * Georgian Poetry 1911-12
 * Amy Lowell - A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass

Non-fiction

 * Alexander Berkman - Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
 * Carl Jung - Theory of Psychoanalysis
 * Bertrand Russell - The Problems of Philosophy

Births

 * January 7 - Charles Addams, cartoonist (d. 1988)
 * January 14 - Rudolf Hagelstange, German lyricist, narrator and essayist (d. 1984)
 * January 30 - Barbara Tuchman, historian (d. 1989)
 * February 11 - Roy Fuller English poet/novelist (d. 1991)
 * February 12 - R. F. Delderfield, novelist and historian (d. 1972)
 * February 17 - Andre Norton, sci-fi and fantasy author (d. 2005)
 * February 20 - Pierre Boulle, novelist (d. 1994)
 * February 27 - Lawrence Durrell, poet and novelist (d. 1990)
 * March 12 - Kylie Tennant, novelist, dramatist and historian (d. 1988)
 * May 3 - May Sarton, American writer (d. 1995)
 * May 16 - Studs Terkel, writer and broadcaster (d. 2008)
 * May 20 - J. L. Carr, novelist and publisher (d. 1994)
 * May 27 - John Cheever, writer (d. 1982)
 * May 29 - Pamela Hansford Johnson, poet, novelist and critic, and wife of C. P. Snow (d. 1981)
 * June 20 - Anthony Buckeridge, children's author (d. 2004)
 * June 29 - John Toland, Pulitzer-winning historian and biographer (d. 2004)
 * July 6 - Heinrich Harrer, explorer and author (Seven Years in Tibet) (d. 2006)
 * July 14 - Northrop Frye, critic (d. 1991)
 * August 4 - Virgilio Piñera, poet and short-story writer (d. 1979)
 * August 10 - Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer (d. 2001)
 * August 18 - Elsa Morante, Italian author (d. 1985)
 * August 23 - Nelson Rodrigues, Brazilian author (d. 1980)
 * September 12 - J. F. Hendry, poet (d. 1986)
 * November 8 - Monica Edwards, children's author (d. 1998)
 * November 24 - Garson Kanin, dramatist and screenwriter (d. 1999)
 * November 25 - Francis Durbridge, dramatist (d. 1998)
 * November 26 - Eugène Ionesco, playwright (d. 1994)
 * December 4 - Ian Wallace, science fiction author
 * date unknown - George Mikes, humorist (d. 1987)

Deaths

 * January 28 - Gustave de Molinari, economist (b. 1819)
 * March 1 - George Grossmith, co-author of Diary of a Nobody (b. 1847)
 * April 6 - Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet (b. 1855)
 * April 10 - Gabriel Monod, historian (b. 1844)
 * April 15 – Jacques Futrelle, American author, died on the RMS Titanic (b. 1875)
 * April 15 - William Thomas Stead, journalist, also on the Titanic (b. 1849)
 * April 20 - Bram Stoker, author (b. 1847)
 * May 14 - August Strindberg, dramatist (b. 1849)
 * July 20 - Andrew Lang, poet, novelist and critic (b. 1844)
 * July 24 - Addison Peale Russell, American essayist (b. 1826)
 * August 29 - Theodor Gomperz, philosopher (b. 1832)
 * date unknown - James Allen, author of As a Man Thinketh (b. 1864)

Awards

 * Nobel Prize for Literature: Gerhart Hauptmann