1906 in literature

See also: 1905 in literature, other events of 1906, 1907 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• December 24 – Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio program, a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech, broadcasts

New books

• Amitabha – Paul Carus
• Beyond the Rocks – Elinor Glyn
• Botchan – Natsume Sōseki
• The Education of Henry Adams – Henry Adams
• Fenwick's Career – Mary Augusta Ward
• The House of Souls – Arthur Machen
• In the Days of the Comet – H. G. Wells
• Joseph Vance – William de Morgan
• The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
• King Paradox – Pio Baroja
• Lady Baltimore – Owen Wister
• Men At War – Frank Thiess
• The Man Who Was Thursday – G. K. Chesterton
• The Mirror of the Sea – Joseph Conrad
• My Dead Life – George Moore (novelist)
• A Night in the Luxembourg – Remy de Gourmont
• Prisoners – Mary Cholmondeley
• Romance Island – Zona Gale
• The Spoilers – Rex Beach
• What is Man? – Mark Twain
• The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgerson – Selma Lagerlöf

Births

• January 22 – Robert E. Howard, American fantasy author (d. 1936)
• January 23 – Anya Seton, American romantic author (d. 1990)
• April 13 – Samuel Beckett, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1969
• October 10 – R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
• October 14 – Hannah Arendt, German/US intellectual

Deaths

• February 9 – Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet
• April 11 – Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher
• May 23 – Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Giosuè Carducci