1911 in literature

Events

• Encyclopædia Britannica published.

• George A. Moore publishes the first of his 3-volume Hail and Farewell[?] (last in 1914).

• Zuleika Dobson[?] by Max Beerbohm 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.

• Gallimard publishing house founded in Paris, France by Gaston Gallimard[?]

New Books

• The Bracknels[?] - Forrest Reid[?]
• The Card[?] - Arnold Bennett
• The Case of Richard Meynell[?] - Mary Augusta Ward
• The Downfall of the Gods[?] - Hugh Clifford[?]
• Ethan Frome[?] - Edith Wharton
• The Innocence of Father Brown[?] - G. K. Chesterton
• The Lair of the White Worm[?] - Bram Stoker
• Ladies Whose Bright Eyes[?] - Ford Madox Ford
• Life Everlasting[?] - Marie Corelli
• Padre Ignacio[?] - Owen Wister[?]
• River Rovers[?] (poetry) - Edwin James Brady[?]
• The Secret Garden[?] - Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Zuleika Dobson[?] - Max Beerbohm

Births

• January 24 - C. L. Moore, science ficton author
• February 8 - Elizabeth Bishop, poet, Pulitzer Prize winner (+ 1979)
• March 26 - Tennessee Williams, playwright
• April 8 - Emil Cioran[?], Romanian-born French philosopher and essayist (+ 1995)
• May 20 - Annie M. G. Schmidt[?], Dutch children books writer
• July 21 - Marshall McLuhan - author (+ 1980)
• December 11 - Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel prize-winning Egyptian novelist.

Deaths

• October 8 - Hesba Stretton[?], author
• October 29 - Joseph Pulitzer

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck