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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Events
- June 18 - Mark Twain purchases a house in Redding, Connecticut.
- The Maurice Maeterlinck play, L'Oiseau bleu (The Blue Bird) debuts.
- The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett is published.
New books
- All Things Considered - G. K. Chesterton
- Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maude Montgomery
- Arnoul the Englishman - Francis Aveling
- A Battle in the Smoke - Louisa Cooke Don Carlos
- Buried Alive - Arnold Bennett
- During Her Majesty's Pleasure - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Holy Orders - Marie Corelli
- The House On the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson
- The Iron Heel - Jack London
- John Silence, Physician Extraordinary - Algernon Blackwood
- The Magician - W. Somerset Maugham
- Mamma - Rhoda Broughton
- The Man Who Was Thursday - G. K. Chesterton
- A Modern Utopia - H. G. Wells
- My Double Life - Sarah Bernhardt
- The Old Wives' Tale - Arnold Bennett
- Penguin Island - Anatole France
- A Room with a View - E. M. Forster
- The Seven Who Were Hanged - Leonid Andreyev
- The Shoulders of Atlas - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- The Tale of Jemina Puddle-Duck - Beatrix Potter
- The Testing of Diana Mallory - Mary Augusta Ward
- Three lives - Gertrude Stein
- The War in the Air - H.G. Wells
- War of the Classes - Jack London
- The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
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)
- October 5 - Joshua Logan, stage and film writer and director
- November 28 - Claude Lévi-Strauss
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