See also: See also: 1914 in literature, other events of 1915, 1916 in literature, list of years in literature. ... 1915 in literature, 1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ... other events of 1916, See also: 1916 in literature, other events of 1917, 1918 in literature, list of years in literature. ... 1917 in literature, This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. ... list of years in literature.

Events

• The Journal of Negro History is founded by Carter G. Woodson was a historian, author, journalist, professor and the founder of Black History Month. ... Carter Godwin Woodson, the father of "Black History" and "Negro History Week."
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story by James Joyce, published in 1916. ... A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (February 2, 1882 – January 13, 1941) was an expatriate Irish writer and poet, and is widely considered one of the most significant writers of the 20th century. ... James Joyce is published.

New books

• The Awakening of Hezekiah Jones - John Edward (Bruce), also known as Bruce Grit (1856 - 1924) was born a slave in Maryland, USA. John Edward Bruce (22 February 1856 to 7 August 1924), journalist, historian, writer, orator, and Pan Afrikan nationalist, was born in Piscataway, Maryland, to enslaved parents Robert and Martha Allen (Clark) Bruce. ... John Edward Bruce
• The Brook Kerith: A Syrian Story - A portrait of George Moore by Édouard Manet George Augustus Moore (February 24, 1852 - January 21, 1933) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. ... George Moore (novelist)
• Chicago Poems - Time magazine, December 4, 1939 Carl Sandburg (January 6, 1878 - July 22, 1967), American poet, historian, novelist, and folklorist. ... Carl Sandburg
• England's Effort - Mary Augusta Ward Mary Augusta Ward (June 11, 1851 - March 26, 1920), was a novelist. ... Mary Augusta Ward
• Lady Connie - Mary Augusta Ward Mary Augusta Ward (June 11, 1851 - March 26, 1920), was a novelist. ... Mary Augusta Ward
• The Leatherwood God - William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 - May 11, 1920) was an American realist author. ... William Dean Howells
• Maria Chapdelaine - Louis Hemon
• The Mysterious Stranger is an unfinished work written by the American author Mark Twain that was worked on periodically from roughly 1890 up until his death in 1910. ... The Mysterious Stranger - Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was a famous and popular American humorist, writer and lecturer. ... Mark Twain
• The Pleasant Ways of St. Medard - Grace King
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story by James Joyce, published in 1916. ... A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (February 2, 1882 – January 13, 1941) was an expatriate Irish writer and poet, and is widely considered one of the most significant writers of the 20th century. ... James Joyce
• In physics, the term relativity is used in several related contexts: Galileo first developed the principle of relativity, which was the postulate that claimed that the laws of physics be the same for all observers, and advocated a classical view that time was a universal constant. ... Relativity - For other uses of the name Einstein, please see Einstein (disambiguation) Portrait of Albert Einstein taken by Yousuf Karsh on February 11, 1948 Albert Einstein ( March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) was a theoretical physicist who is widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the 20th century. ... Albert Einstein
• Windy McPherson's Son - Sherwood Anderson, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1933 Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 - March 8, 1941) was an American writer, mainly of short stories, most notably the collection Winesburg, Ohio. ... Sherwood Anderson
• The Winged Victory - Sarah Grand
• You Know Me - Ring Lardner (March 6, 1885 - September 27, 1933) was a sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical takes on the sports world, marriage, and the theatre. ... Ring Lardner

Births

• April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). ... April 15 - Helene Hanff, author
• May 21 is the 141st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (142nd in leap years). ... May 21 - Harold Robbins (originally Harold Rubin) (May 21, 1916–October 14, 1997) was an American author. ... Harold Robbins (+ 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Reef. ... 1997)
• May 28 is the 148th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (149th in leap years). ... May 28 - Walker Percy (May 28, 1916 - May 10, 1990) was an American author, born in Birmingham, Alabama. ... Walker Percy (+ 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1990)
• July 14 is the 195th day (196th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 170 days remaining. ... July 14 - Natalia Ginzburg, author
• September 13 is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years). ... September 13 - Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1954 Roald Dahl (September 13, 1916–November 23, 1990) was a British novelist and short story author of Norwegian descent, famous both as a writer of childrens fiction as well as adult and horror fiction. ... Roald Dahl, author
• October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in Leap years). ... October 16 - The cover of Gascoynes 1935 book A Short Survey of Surrealism David Gascoyne (October 10, 1916 - November 25, 2001) was a British poet associated with the Surrealist movement. ... David Gascoyne, author and poet

Deaths

• February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... February 6 - Rubén Darío, writer
• February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... February 28 - This article is about the writer; for the politician who was almost his contemporary see Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford. ... Henry James, writer
• October 7 is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years). ... October 7 - Honorary statue of James Whitcomb Riley On courthouse lawn Greenfield, Indiana James Whitcomb Riley (Greenfield, Indiana October 7, 1849 - July 22, 1916), American writer and poet called the Hoosier poet made a start writing newspaper verse in Hoosier dialect for the Indianapolis Journal in 1875. ... James Whitcomb Riley, poet
• November 14 is the 318th day of the year (319th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 47 days remaining. ... November 14 - Saki (December 18, 1870 - November 14, 1916) was the pen name of British author Hector Hugh Munro, whose witty and outrageous stories satirized the Edwardian social scene in macabre and cruel ways. ... Saki, author
• November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 46 days remaining. ... November 15 - Molly Elliot Seawell (b. ... Molly Elliot Seawell, novelist
• November 22 is the 326th day (327th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... November 22 - Jack London, probably born John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916), was an American author of over 50 books. ... Jack London, author

Awards

• The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes... Nobel Prize for Literature: Verner von Heidenstam (July 6, 1859 - May 20, 1940) was a Swedish poet and a laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1916. ... Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam (Swedish language|Swedish)