1909 in literature
See also: 1908 in literature, other events of 1909, 1910 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
New books
- Guillaume Apollinaire — L'Enchanteur Pourrissant
- L. Frank Baum — The Road to Oz
- André Billy — La Derive
- René Boylesve — La Jeune Fille bien élevée
- Hall Caine — The White Prophet
- 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
- Lucy Maud Montgomery — Anne of Avonlea
- Gertrude Stein — Three Lives
- Gene Stratton-Porter — A Girl of the Limberlost
- Hermann Sudermann — The Song of Songs
- Mary Augusta Ward — Daphne
- H.G. Wells
New drama
- John Galsworthy - Strife
Poetry
- François Mauriac - Les Mains Jointes (Clasped Hands)
- John Millington Synge - Poems and Translations
Non-fiction
Births
- January 29 - Phoebe Hesketh, British poet (d. 2005)
- February 24 - August Derleth, anthologist
- March 28 - Nelson Algren, novelist
- April 8 - John Fante, novelist
- May 9 - Robert Garioch, poet (d. 1981)
- June 6 - Sir Isaiah Berlin, philosopher
- June 28 - Eric Ambler, novelist
- July 1 – Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan writer (d. 1994)
- July 28 - Malcolm Lowry, British novelist
- July 30 - C. Northcote Parkinson, British historian and author
- August 3 — Walter Van Tilburg Clark, novelist (The Ox-Bow Incident)
- Miep Gies, Anne Frank friend, biographer
Deaths
- February 11 - Russell Sturgis, art critic
- March 24 - John Millington Synge, dramatist and poet
- March 27 (probable) - John Davidson, poet
- April 9 - Francis Marion Crawford, novelist
- April 12 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, British poet
- April 26 - Marcus Dods, theologian
- May 18 - George Meredith, novelist and poet
- June 11 - Jacob Gordin, dramatist
- July 8 - Albert Craig, "The Surrey Poet", cricket writer
- August 23 - Liu E, novelist
- October 24 - Henry Charles Lea, historian
- December 14 - Frederick Greenwood, journalist
- date unknown
- H. L. Fischer, translator
- Paschal Grousset, journalist and science fiction writer
Awards
Categories
1909 books