1907 in literature

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.

New Books

• 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

Births

• 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)

Deaths

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

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Rudyard Kipling