1906 in literature
See also: 1905 in literature, other events of 1906, 1907 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- December 24 - Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio program, a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech, broadcasts
New books
- Henry Adams - The Education of Henry Adams
- Pio Baroja - King Paradox
- Rex Beach - The Spoilers
- Paul Carus - Amitabha
- Mary Cholmondeley - Prisoners
- Joseph Conrad - The Mirror of the Sea
- William de Morgan - Joseph Vance
- Ford Madox Ford - The Fifth Queen
- Zona Gale - Romance Island
- John Galsworthy - The Man of Property
- Elinor Glyn - Beyond the Rocks
- Remy de Gourmont - A Night in the Luxembourg
- O. Henry - The Four Million
- Hermann Hesse - Beneath the Wheel
- Selma Lagerlöf - The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgerson
- Arthur Machen - The House of Souls
- George Moore (novelist) - My Dead Life
- Edith Nesbit
- Felix Salten (attributed) - Josefine Mutzenbacher
- Upton Sinclair - The Jungle
- Natsume Sōseki - Botchan
- Frank Thiess - Men At War
- Mark Twain - What Is Man?
- Mary Augusta Ward - Fenwick's Career
- H. G. Wells - In the Days of the Comet
- Owen Wister - Lady Baltimore
New drama
- John Galsworthy - The Silver Box
- Harley Granville-Barker - Waste
- George Barr McCutcheon - Brewster's Millions, theatrical adaptation
Births
- January 22 - Robert E. Howard, American fantasy author (d. 1936)
- January 23 - Anya Seton, American romantic author (d. 1990)
- February 15 - Musa Calil, poet
- March 25 - A.J.P. Taylor, historian
- April 13 - Samuel Beckett, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1969
- June 20 - Catherine Cookson, best-selling novelist
- July 18 - Clifford Odets, dramatist
- August 30 - Elizabeth Longford, biographer
- September 25 - Franklin Garrett, historian of Atlanta
- October 10 - R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
- October 14 - Hannah Arendt, German/US intellectual
Deaths
- February 9 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet
- March 2 - Ellen Mary Clerke, novelist
- April 6 - Alexander Kielland, novelist
- April 11 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher
- April 14 - Nora Chesson, poet
- May 23 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright
- June 29 - Albert Sorel, historian
- June 30 - Jean Lorrain, Symbolist poet
- December 6 - Anne Ross Cousin, poet
Awards
Categories
1906 books