1901 in literature

Events

• First Nobel Prize for Literature awarded.

• October 23 - Mark Twain receives an honorary doctor of literature degree from Yale University.

• October - Mark Twain moves to Riverdale, New York[?]

• The Three Sisters[?] drama by Anton Chekov

• Gilbert Keith Chesterton marries Frances Blogg.

• Kim by Rudyard Kipling is published. In 2001, the book would be listed as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

New Books

• The Aerial Village[?] - Jules Verne
• La Becquée[?] - René Boylesve[?]
• Bubu de Montparnasse[?] - Charles-Louis Philippe[?]
• Claudine à Paris[?] - Colette
• The Crisis[?] - Winston Churchill
• The Eternal City[?] - Hall Caine
• The House with the Green Shutters[?] - George Douglas[?]
• Kim - Rudyard Kipling
• My Brilliant Career - Miles Franklin[?]
• The Octopus[?] - Frank Norris
• Travail[?] - Emile Zola
• Sister Theresa[?] - George A. Moore
• Up from Slavery[?] - Booker T. Washington

Births

• January 31 - Marie Luise Kaschnitz[?], writer (+ 1974)
• April 10 - Anna Kavan[?], author
• December 16 - Margaret Mead, cultural antropologist and author (+ 1978)

Deaths

• June 9 - Walter Besant[?], novelist
• June 10 - Robert Buchanan[?], writer
• July 7 - Johanna Spyri, author

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Sully Prudhomme