1918 in literature

See also: 1917 in literature, other events of 1918, 1919 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• First Pulitzer Prizes awarded
• Author Hall Caine made a KBE.
• Robert Graves marries Nancy Nicholson. Wedding guests include Wilfred Owen.

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 José 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 4 – Wilfred Owen, poet
• 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