1901 in literature

See also: 1900 in literature, other events of 1901, 1902 in literature, list of years in literature. \n

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

\n* First Nobel Prize for Literature awarded.

• October 23 - Mark Twain receives an honorary doctor of literature degree from Yale University.
• October - Mark Twain moves to Riverdale, New York
• The Three Sisters drama by Anton Chekov
• Gilbert Keith Chesterton marries Frances Blogg.
• Kim by Rudyard Kipling is published. In 2001, the book would be listed as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

New Books

\n*The Aerial Village - Jules Verne\n*La Becquée - René Boylesve\n*Bubu de Montparnasse - Charles-Louis Philippe\n*Claudine à Paris - Colette\n*The Crisis - Winston Churchill\n*The Eternal City - Hall Caine\n*The House with the Green Shutters - George Douglas\n*Kim - Rudyard Kipling\n*My Brilliant Career - Miles Franklin\n*The Octopus - Frank Norris \n*Travail - Emile Zola\n*Sister Theresa - George A. Moore\n*Up from Slavery - Booker T. Washington \n

Births

\n*January 31 - Marie Luise Kaschnitz, writer (+ 1974)\n*April 10 - Anna Kavan, author\n*December 16 - Margaret Mead, cultural anthropologist and author (+ 1978)

Deaths

\n*June 9 - Walter Besant, novelist\n*June 10 - Robert Buchanan, writer\n*July 7 - Johanna Spyri, author \n

Awards

\n* Nobel Prize for Literature: Sully Prudhomme *\n