1911 in literature

See also: 1910 in literature, other events of 1911, 1912 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Encyclopædia Britannica published.
• George Moore (novelist) publishes the first of his 3-volume Hail and Farewell (last in 1914).
• Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm is published.
• 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
• The Phantom of the Opera — Gaston Leroux
• Ladies Whose Bright Eyes  – Ford Madox Ford
• Life Everlasting – Marie Corelli
• The New Machiavelli – H. G. Wells
• 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 fiction 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

• January 23 – David Graham Phillips, journalist / novelist
• October 8 – Hesba Stretton, author
• October 29 – Joseph Pulitzer
• Ewin Austin Abbey, author

Awards

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