1917 in literature
See also: 1916 in literature, other events of 1917, 1918 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- December 25 - Why Marry, first dramatic play to win a Pulitzer Prize, opens at the Astor Theatre in New York City.
New Books
- Canada at Flanders - Max Aitken
- A Daughter of the Morning - Zona Gale
- Ethiopia, The Land of Promise - Clayton Adams
- His Family - Ernest Poole
- The Homesteader - Oscar Micheaux
- The Job - Sinclair Lewis
- Knights of Araby - Marmaduke Pickthall
- The Leopard's Claw - George Washington Ellis
- The Man With Two Left Feet - P. G. Wodehouse
- Missing - Mary Augusta Ward
- Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
- On Growth and Form - D'Arcy Thompson
- Prufrock and Other Observations - T. S. Eliot
- The Rise of David Levinsky - Abraham Cahan
- South Wind - Norman Douglas
- Summer - Edith Wharton
- Susan Lenox: Her Rise and Fall - David Graham Phillips
- A Thorn in the Flesh - Rhoda Broughton
- The Three Black Pennys - Joseph Hergesheimer
- Towards the Goal - Mary Augusta Ward
- Under Fire - Henri Barbusse
- Under One Roof - Mary Cholmondeley
Births
- February 11 - Sidney Sheldon, novelist
- December 21 - Heinrich Böll, author, Nobel Prize winner (+ 1985)
Deaths
- January 15 - William de Morgan, novelist
- April 21 - Francis Burnand, dramatist and editor of "Punch"