1907 in literature

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• June 26 - Mark Twain receives an honorary doctorate of laws degree from Oxford University.

• The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad is published. In 2001, the book would be one of four books by Conrad to be on the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

• Benoni - André Billy
• The City of Pleasure - Arnold Bennett
• Dead Love Has Chains - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• The Hill of Dreams - Arthur Machen
• Kind Hearts and Coronets - Roy Horniman
• The Longest Journey - E. M. Forster
• Madame de Treymes - Edith Wharton
• My Lady Caprice - Jeffery Farnol
• Not George Washington - P. G. Wodehouse
• The Overman - Upton Sinclair
• The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
• The Seven Ages of Washington - Owen Wister
• The Shepherd of the Hills - Harold Bell Wright
• Songs of a Sourdough - (poetry) Robert Service
• The Tale of Tom Kitten - Beatrix Potter

• February 1 - Günter Eich, lyricist (+ 1972)
• February 21 - W. H. Auden, English poet (+ 1973)
• May 13 - Daphne du Maurier, writer (+ 1989)
• July 7 - Robert Heinlein, author (+ 1988)
• August 28 - Rupert Hart-Davis, editor, publisher (+ 1999)
• September 23 - Pauline Réage, author (+ 1998)
• November 14 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author of children's books (+ 2002)

• May 12 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, author
• July 17 - Hector Malot, author
• September 6 - Sully Prudhomme, 1st Nobel Prize winner

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Rudyard Kipling