See also: 1906 in literature, other events of 1907, 1908 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
New books
Births
- February 1 - Günter Eich, lyricist (d. 1972)
- February 3 (probable) - James A. Michener, novelist (d. 1997)
- February 21 - W. H. Auden, English poet (d. 1973)
- May 12 - Leslie Charteris, The Saint author (d. 1993)
- May 13 - Daphne du Maurier, writer (d. 1989)
- May 27 - Rachel Carson, Silent Spring author (d. 1964)
- July 7 - Robert Heinlein, author (d. 1988)
- August 17 - Roger Peyrefitte, controversial author (d. 2000)
- August 28 - Rupert Hart-Davis, editor, publisher (d. 1999)
- September 23 - Pauline Réage, erotic novelist (d. 1998)
- October 15 - Varian Fry, journalist (d. 1967)
- November 14 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author of children's books (d. 2002)
- November 27 - L. Sprague de Camp, American sci-fi and fantasy author (d. 2000)
- November 28 - Alberto Moravia, novelist (d. 1990)
- December 10 - Rumer Godden, novelist (d. 1998)
- December 18 - Christopher Fry, dramatist
Deaths
- January 20 - Agnes Mary Clerke, author on astronomy
- March 9 - Frederic George Stephens, art critic and member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- April 23 - André Theuriet, poet and novelist
- May 12 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, author
- July 17 - Hector Malot, author
- July 19 - William Gunion Rutherford, classical commentator
- September 6 - Sully Prudhomme, 1st Nobel Prize winner
- September 7 - Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, philologist
- October 6 - David Masson, critic and biographer
- November 1 - Alfred Jarry, dramatist
- November 28 - Stanislaw Wyspianski, dramatist, poet and painter
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