See also: 1907 in literature, other events of 1908, 1909 in literature, list of years in literature. See also: 1906 in literature, other events of 1907, 1908 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1908 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... See also: 1908 in literature, other events of 1909, 1910 in literature, list of years in literature. ... This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. ...

Events

• June 18 - Mark Twain purchases a house in Redding, Connecticut.
• The Maurice Maeterlinck play, L'Oiseau bleu (The Blue Bird) debuts.
• The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett is published.

Jump to: navigation, search June 18 is the 169th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (170th in leap years), with 196 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was a famous and popular American humorist, novelist, writer and lecturer. ... Jump to: navigation, search Redding is a town located in Fairfield County, Connecticut. ... Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, Belgian author Count Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (August 29, 1862 - May 6, 1949) was a Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist. ... The Old Wives Tale is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1908. ... Arnold Bennett, British novelist Enoch Arnold Bennett (May 27, 1867-March 27, 1931) was a British novelist. ...

New books

• All Things Considered - G. K. Chesterton
• Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maude Montgomery
• Arnoul the Englishman - Francis Aveling
• A Battle in the Smoke - Louisa Cooke Don Carlos
• Buried Alive - Arnold Bennett
• During Her Majesty's Pleasure - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Holy Orders - Marie Corelli
• The House On the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson
• The Iron Heel - Jack London
• John Silence, Physician Extraordinary - Algernon Blackwood
• The Magician - W. Somerset Maugham
• Mamma - Rhoda Broughton
• The Man Who Was Thursday - G. K. Chesterton
• A Modern Utopia - H. G. Wells
• My Double Life - Sarah Bernhardt
• The Old Wives' Tale - Arnold Bennett
• Penguin Island - Anatole France
• A Room with a View - E. M. Forster
• The Seven Who Were Hanged - Leonid Andreyev
• The Shoulders of Atlas - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• The Tale of Jemina Puddle-Duck - Beatrix Potter
• The Testing of Diana Mallory - Mary Augusta Ward
• Three lives - Gertrude Stein
• The Trail of the Lonesome Pine - John Fox, Jr.
• The War in the Air - H.G. Wells
• War of the Classes - Jack London
• The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

All Things Considered, sometimes abbreviated ATC, is a news radio program in the United States, broadcast on the National Public Radio network. ... Jump to: navigation, search G.K. Chesterton Gilbert Keith Chesterton (May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936) was an English writer of the early 20th century. ... Jump to: navigation, search Anne of Green Gables boxed set cover. ... Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 - April 24, 1942) was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables. ... Arnold Bennett, British novelist Enoch Arnold Bennett (May 27, 1867-March 27, 1931) was a British novelist. ... Mary Elizabeth Braddon British novelist (1837 - 1915) . Mary Elizabeth Braddon (October 4, 1837 - February 4, 1915) was a British Victorian era popular novelist Born in London in England, Braddon was privately educated and worked as an actress for three years in order to able to support herself and her mother. ... Marie Corelli (1855 - 1924), novelist. ... William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918) was an English author of horror and fantastic fiction. ... The Iron Heel is a novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908. ... Jump to: navigation, search Jack London, probably born John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American author who wrote over 50 books. ... Jump to: navigation, search Algernon Henry Blackwood (March 14, 1869 – December 10, 1951) was a British writer of tales of the supernatural. ... The Magician is an early W. Somerset Maugham novel. ... W. Somerset Maugham as photographed in 1934 by Carl Van Vechten. ... A pair of female breasts The term breast, also known by the Latin mamma in human anatomy, refers to the upper ventral region of an animals torso, particularly that of mammals, including human beings. ... Rhoda Broughton (November 29, 1840 – June 5, 1920) was a novelist. ... The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a novel by G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1907. ... Jump to: navigation, search G.K. Chesterton Gilbert Keith Chesterton (May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936) was an English writer of the early 20th century. ... Jump to: navigation, search H. G. Wells at the door of his house at Sandgate Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946) was a British writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. ... Sarah Bernhardt (portrait by Nadar) Sarah Bernhardt (October 22, 1844 – March 26, 1923) was a French stage actress. ... The Old Wives Tale is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1908. ... Arnold Bennett, British novelist Enoch Arnold Bennett (May 27, 1867-March 27, 1931) was a British novelist. ... Penguin Island (LÎle des Pingouins) is a satirical novel by Anatole France first published in 1908. ... Jump to: navigation, search Anatole France (April 16, 1844 – October 12, 1924) was the pen name of French author Jacques Anatole François Thibault. ... A Room with a View is a novel by E. M. Forster that tells the story of a young Englishwoman whose encounter with a handsome young man in Florence may interfere with her marriage plans. ... Jump to: navigation, search E. M. Forster Edward Morgan Forster (January 1, 1879 - June 7, 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. ... Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev (1871-1919) was a Russian Short story writer, who was active between the revolution of 1905 and the Communist revolution which finally overthrew the tsarist government. ... Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (October 31, 1852 – March 13, 1930) was a prominent female American writer of the Victorian era known for her short stories and novels of life in New England villages. ... Jump to: navigation, search Potters illustration of her anthropomorphic rabbits — in this case the married cousins, Benjamin and Flopsy Bunny, from The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies Beatrix Potter, or Helen Beatrix Potter (July 28, 1866–December 22, 1943) was a British childrens book author and illustrator. ... Jump to: navigation, search Mary Augusta Ward Huxley and Arnold family tree. ... Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 - July 27, 1946) was an American writer, poet, feminist, playwright and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in France. ... Jump to: navigation, search John Fox, Jr. ... The War in the Air is a novel by H.G. Wells, written in 1907, serialized and published in 1908. ... H. G. Wells at the door of his house at Sandgate Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946) was an English writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. ... Jump to: navigation, search Jack London, probably born John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American author who wrote over 50 books. ... Ratty and Mole The Wind in the Willows is a classic of childrens literature by Kenneth Grahame. ... Kenneth Grahame (March 8, 1859 - July 6, 1932) was an Scottish novelist. ...

Births

• January 9 - Simone de Beauvoir, feminist philosopher
• January 18 - Jacob Bronowski, scientist and poet
• February 8 - Emil Staiger, scientist of literature (d. 1987)
• February 11 - Sutan Takdir Alishahbana, Indonesian linguistic/author/novelist.
• February 29 - Dee Brown, novelist and historian
• March 6 - Dame Felicitas Corrigan, Benedictine author
• March 22 - Louis L'Amour, author
• May 17 - Frederic Prokosch, novelist and poet
• May 25 - Theodore Roethke, American poet
• May 28 - Ian Fleming, author
• August 21 - M. M. Kaye, Far Pavilions author
• September 4 - Richard Wright, author (d. 1960)
• September 17 - John Creasey, author
• October 5 - Joshua Logan, stage and film writer and director
• November 28 - Claude Lévi-Strauss

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Deaths

• January 25 - Ouida, writer
• March 19 - Eduard Zeller, philosopher
• April 20 - Henry Chadwick, baseball writer and historian
• July 3 - Joel Chandler Harris
• July 28 - Otto Pfleiderer, theologian
• November 8 - Victorien Sardou, dramatist

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Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Rudolf Christoph Eucken