1918 in literature

Events

• First Pulitzer Prizes awarded

• Author Hall Caine made a Knight of the British Empire[?].

• The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington 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.

New Books

• Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War[?] - Guillaume Apollinaire
• Colas Breugnon[?] - Romain Rolland
• Edgewater People[?] - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman[?]
• Eminent Victorians - Lytton Strachey
• Hope's Highway[?] - Sarah Lee Brown Fleming[?]
• I Have Killed[?] - Blaise Cendrars
• The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington
• The Marne[?] - Edith Wharton
• My Ántonia[?] - Willa Cather
• The Severed Hand[?] - Blaise Cendrars
• The War and Elizabeth[?] - Mary Augusta Ward
• A Writer's Recollections[?] - Mary Augusta Ward
• The Young Diana[?] - Marie Corelli

Births

• January 16 - Stirling Silliphant[?], writer, producer (+ 1996)
  • Philip Jose Farmer, science fiction writer
• February 1 - Dame Muriel Spark, author
• February 6 - Lothar-Günther Buchheim[?], author of Das Boot
• March 9 - Mickey Spillane, mystery writer
• October 19 - Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher
• November 29 - Madeleine L'Engle[?], author of books for children & teens
• December 11 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer

Deaths

• June 10 - Arrigo Boito, poet and composer
• November 9 - Guillaume Apollinaire, poet

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: not awarded
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Jesse Lynch Williams, Why Marry?
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Sara Teasdale[?]: Love Songs
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Ernest Poole[?] - His Family