1908 in literature

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See also: 1907 in literature, other events of 1908, 1909 in literature, list of years in literature.

Table of contents

1 Events
2 New Books
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Awards

Events

June 18 - Mark Twain purchases a house in Redding, Connecticut.
The Maurice Maeterlinck play, L'Oiseau bleu (The Blue Bird) debuts.
The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett is published. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

New Books

All Things Considered - G. K. Chesterton
Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maude Montgomery
Arnoul the Englishman - Francis Aveling
A Battle in the Smoke - Louisa Cooke Don Carlos
Buried Alive - Arnold Bennett
During Her Majesty's Pleasure - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Holy Orders - Marie Corelli
The House On the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson
The Iron Heel - Jack London
John Silence, Physician Extraordinary - Algernon Blackwood
The Magician - W. Somerset Maugham
Mamma - Rhoda Broughton
The Man Who Was Thursday - G. K. Chesterton
A Modern Utopia - H. G. Wells
My Double Life - Sarah Bernhardt
The Old Wives' Tale - Arnold Bennett
Penguin Island - Anatole France
A Room with a View - E. M. Forster
The Seven Who Were Hanged - Leonid Andreyev
The Shoulders of Atlas - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
The Tale of Jemina Puddle-Duck - Beatrix Potter
The Testing of Diana Mallory - Mary Augusta Ward
Three lives - Gertrude Stein
War of the Classes - Jack London
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

Births

January 9 - Simone de Beauvoir, feminist philosopher
February 8 - Emil Staiger, scientist of literature (d. 1987)
February 11 - Sutan Takdir Alishahbana, Indonesian linguistic/author/novelist.
March 22 - Louis L'Amour, author
May 25 - Theodore Roethke, American poet
May 28 - Ian Fleming, author
September 4 - Richard Wright, author (d. 1960)
November 28 - Claude Levi-Strauss

Deaths

January 25 - Ouida, writer
April 20 - Henry Chadwick, baseball writer and historian
July 3, 1908 - Joel Chandler Harris

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Rudolf Christoph Eucken