1915 in literature

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1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford is published. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

• The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence is published. In 2001, the book would be one of three books by Lawrence to be on the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

New Books

• Around Old Chester - Margaret Deland
• The Bent Twig - Dorothy Canfield Fisher
• The Bride of the Sun - Gaston Leroux
• The Conflict of Section - Otis M. Shackelford
• Eltham House - Mary Augusta Ward
• The Forged Note - Oscar Micheaux
• The Genius - Theodore Dreiser
• The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
• A Great Success - Mary Augusta Ward
• Herland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock - T.S. Eliot
• The Metamorphis - Franz Kafka
• Moonbeams From the Larger Lunacy - Stephen Leacock
• North of Boston - Robert Frost
• Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
• Painted Roofs - Dorothy Richardson
• The Pentecost of Calamity - Owen Wister
• The Rainbow - D. H. Lawrence
• The Song of the Lark - Willa Cather
• The Underdogs - Mariano Azuela
• The Unknown Man - Thomas Hamilton B. Walker

Births

• January 12 - Paul Jarrico, writer (+ 1997)
• January 20 - C. W. Ceram, author († 1972)
• Patrick Leigh Fermor, American author.
• Thomas Merton, author (+ 1968)
• Alun Lewis, poet of World War II

Deaths

• February 4 - Mary Elizabeth Braddon, novelist
• November 4 - Booker T. Washington, author

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Romain Rolland (French)