1917 in literature

Events

• December 25 - Why Marry?[?], first dramatic play to win a Pulitzer Prize, opens at the Astor Theatre[?] in New York City.

New Books

• Canada at Flanders[?] - Max Aitken
• A Daughter of the Morning[?] - Zona Gale[?]
• Ethiopia, The Land of Promise[?] - Clayton Adams[?]
• His Family[?] - Ernest Poole[?]
• The Homesteader[?] - Oscar Micheaux
• The Job[?] - Sinclair Lewis
• Knights of Araby[?] - Marmaduke Pickthall[?]
• The Leopard's Claw[?] - George Washington Ellis[?]
• The Man With Two Left Feet[?] - P. G. Wodehouse
• Missing[?] - Mary Augusta Ward
• On Growth and Form[?] - D'Arcy Thompson[?]
• Prufrock and Other Observations[?] - T. S. Eliot
• The Rise of David Levinsky[?] - Abraham Cahan[?]
• South Wind[?] - Norman Douglas[?]
• Summer - Edith Wharton
• Susan Lenox: Her Rise and Fall[?] - David Graham Phillips[?]
• A Thorn in the Flesh[?] - Rhoda Broughton
• The Three Black Pennys[?] - Joseph Hergesheimer[?]
• Towards the Goal[?] - Mary Augusta Ward
• Under Fire[?] - Henri Barbusse
• Under One Roof[?] - Mary Cholmondeley[?]

Births

• February 11 - Sidney Sheldon[?], novelist
• December 21 - Heinrich Böll, author, Nobel Prize winner (+ 1985)

Deaths

• January 15 - William de Morgan[?], novelist
• April 21 - Francis Burnand[?], dramatist and editor of "Punch"

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan[?]