1912 in literature

See also: 1911 in literature, other events of 1912, 1913 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Virginia Stephen marries Leonard Woolf.

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
• Marriage – H. G. Wells
• 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 (d. 1988)
• January 14 – Rudolf Hagelstange, German lyricist, narrator and essayist (d. 1984)
• January 30 – Barbara W. Tuchman, historian (d. 1989)
• February 11 – Roy Fuller English poet/novelist (d. 1991)
• February 12 – R. F. Delderfield, novelist and historian (d. 1972)
• February 20 – Pierre Boulle, author (d. 1994)
• May 3 – May Sarton, American writer (d. 1995)
• May 27 – John Cheever, writer (d. 1982)
• November 26 – Eugène Ionesco, playwright (d. 1994)

Deaths

• April 15 – Jacques Futrelle, American author, died on the RMS Titanic
• April 20 – Bram Stoker, author
• May 14 – August Strindberg, dramatist

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Nils Gustaf Dalén