1915 in literature

The year 1915 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

 * May 3 - In Flanders Fields is written by Canadian poet John McCrae.
 * The poem "Into Battle" is published in The Times a few weeks before its author, Julian Grenfell, is killed in battle.
 * Russian poet Sergei Yesenin (1895–1925), published his first book of poems titled "Radumitsa."

New books

 * Mariano Azuela - Los de abajo
 * L. Frank Baum - The Scarecrow of Oz
 * - Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross (as "Edith Van Dyne")
 * John Buchan - The Thirty-nine Steps
 * Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Return of Tarzan
 * Willa Cather - The Song of the Lark
 * Joseph Conrad - Victory
 * Arthur Conan Doyle - The Valley of Fear
 * Theodore Dreiser - The Genius
 * Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier
 * Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Herland
 * Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis
 * D. H. Lawrence - The Rainbow
 * Jack London - The Little Lady of the Big House
 * W. Somerset Maugham - Of Human Bondage
 * Oscar Micheaux - The Forged Note
 * Baroness Orczy - A Bride of the Plains
 * - The Bronze Eagle
 * Eleanor H. Porter - Pollyanna Grows Up
 * Sax Rohmer - The Yellow Claw
 * Rafael Sabatini - The Sea Hawk
 * Ruth Sawyer - The Primrose Ring
 * Russell Thorndike - Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh
 * P. G. Wodehouse - Something Fresh
 * Virginia Woolf - The Voyage Out

New drama

 * Susan Glaspell - Suppressed Desires

Non-fiction

 * Hall Caine &mdash; The Drama of 365 Days: Scenes in the Great War

Poetry

 * T.S. Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
 * Geoffrey Faber - Interflow, Poems Mainly Lyrical
 * Francis Ledwidge - Songs of the Fields

Awards

 * Nobel Prize for Literature: Romain Rolland (French)

Births

 * March 18 - Richard Condon, novelist (d. 1996)
 * June 10 - Saul Bellow, writer (d. 2005)
 * July 1 - Alun Lewis, war poet (d. 1944)
 * July 7 - Margaret Walker, poet and novelist (d. 1998)
 * July 14 - Jerome Lawrence, dramatist (d. 2004)
 * July 31 - Herbert Aptheker, historian (d. 2003)
 * August 19 - Ring Lardner Jr., journalist and scriptwriter, one of the "Hollywood Ten" (d. 2000)
 * August 28 - Claude Roy, French poet (d. 1997)
 * October 17 - Arthur Miller, dramatist (d. 2005)
 * November 8 - G. S. Fraser, poet and critic (d. 1980)
 * December 22 - David Martin, poet (d. 1997)
 * December 27 - John Cornford, poet (d. 1936)

Deaths

 * January 3 - James Elroy Flecker, poet, novelist and dramatist (b. 1884)
 * February 4 - Mary Elizabeth Braddon, novelist (b. 1837)
 * April 8 - Louis Pergaud, French novelist (b. 1882)
 * April 23 - Rupert Brooke, war poet (b. 1887)
 * May 26 - Julian Grenfell, war poet (b. 1888)
 * November 14 - Booker T. Washington, writer and educator (b. 1856)