1912 in literature

Events

New Books

• The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man[?] - James Weldon Johnson
• Adnams Orchard[?] - Sarah Grand[?]
• Alexander's Bridge[?] - Willa Cather
• Bells and Hobbles[?] (poetry) - Edwin James Brady[?]
• Between two stools[?] - Rhoda Broughton
• The Crock of Gold[?] - James Stephens[?]
• Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
• The Financier[?] - Theodore Dreiser
• The King's Caravan[?] (poetry) - Edwin James Brady[?]
• Mrs. Spring[?] - Sui-Sin Far[?]
• A Princess of Mars[?] - Edgar Rice Burroughs
• The Problems of Philosophy[?] - Bertrand Russell
• The Promised[?] - Land Mary Antin[?]
• The Reef[?] - Edith Wharton
• Riders of the Purple Sage[?] - Zane Grey
• The Secret Sharer[?] - Joseph Conrad
• Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town[?] - Stephen Leacock
• Theory of Psychoanalysis[?] - Carl Jung
• The Unbearable Bassington[?] - Saki

Births

• January 7 - Charles Addams, cartoonist
• January 14 - Rudolf Hagelstange[?], German lyricist, narrator and essayist (+ 1984)
• January 30 - Barbara W. Tuchman, historian (+ 1989)
• February 11 - Roy Fuller[?] English poet/novelist
• February 20 - Pierre Boulle, author (+ 1994)
• May 27 - John Cheever[?], writer (+ 1982)
• November 26 - Eugène Ionesco, playwright (+ 1994)

Deaths

• April 20 - Bram Stoker, author
• May 14 - August Strindberg, writer

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Nils Gustaf Dalén[?]