1906 in literature

Events

• December 24 - Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio program, a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech, broadcasts

New Books

• Amitabha - Paul Carus[?]
• The Education of Henry Adams[?] - Henry Adams
• Fenwick's Career[?] - Mary Augusta Ward
• The House of Souls[?] - Arthur Machen
• Joseph Vance[?] - William de Morgan[?]
• The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
• King Paradox[?] - Pio Baroja[?]
• Lady Baltimore[?] - Owen Wister[?]
• Men At War[?] - Frank Thiess[?]
• The Man Who Was Thursday[?] - G. K. Chesterton
• The Mirror of the Sea[?] - Joseph Conrad
• My Dead Life[?] - George A. Moore
• A Night in the Luxembourg[?] - Remy de Gourmont
• Prisoners[?] - Mary Cholmondeley[?]
• Romance Island[?] - Zona Gale[?]
• The Spoilers[?] - Rex Beach[?]
• What is Man?[?] - Mark Twain
• The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgerson[?] - Selma Lagerlof

Births

• Anya Seton (+ 1990)
• January 22 - Robert E. Howard, American fantasy author (+ 1936)
• April 13 - Samuel Beckett, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1969
• October 14 - Hannah Arendt, German/US intellectual

Deaths

• February 9 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet
• April 11 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher
• May 23 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Giosuè Carducci