1908 in literature
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See also: 1907 in literature, other events of 1908, 1909 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- June 18 - Mark Twain purchases a house in Redding, Connecticut.
[edit] New books
- Leonid Andreyev - The Seven Who Were Hanged
- Francis Aveling - Arnoul the Englishman
- L. Frank Baum - Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
- Arnold Bennett
- Algernon Blackwood - John Silence, Physician Extraordinary
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon - During Her Majesty's Pleasure
- Rhoda Broughton - Mamma
- G. K. Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday
- Louisa Cooke Don Carlos - A Battle in the Smoke
- Marie Corelli - Holy Orders
- Anatole France - Penguin Island
- E. M. Forster - A Room with a View
- John Fox, Jr. - The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - The Shoulders of Atlas
- Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows
- William Hope Hodgson - The House on the Borderland
- Jack London - The Iron Heel
- W. Somerset Maugham - The Magician
- Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables
- Beatrix Potter - The Tale of Jemina Puddle-Duck
- Arthur Schnitzler - Der Weg ins Freie
- Mary Augusta Ward - The Testing of Diana Mallory
- H. G. Wells
[edit] New drama
- Maurice Maeterlinck - L'Oiseau Bleu
- Edward Sheldon - Salvation Nell
- J.M. Synge - The Tinker's Wedding
[edit] Poetry
- Edward Carpenter - Iolaus: Anthology of Friendship
- W. H. Davies - Nature Poems
[edit] Non-fiction
- Sarah Bernhardt - My Double Life
- G. K. Chesterton - All Things Considered
- Jack London - War of the Classes
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
