1911 in literature
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See also: 1910 in literature, other events of 1911, 1912 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Encyclopędia Britannica published.
- George Moore (novelist) publishes the first of his 3-volume Hail and Farewell (last in 1914).
- Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm is published.
- Gallimard publishing house founded in Paris, France by Gaston Gallimard
New books
- The Bracknels - Forrest Reid
- The Card - Arnold Bennett
- The Case of Richard Meynell - Mary Augusta Ward
- The Downfall of the Gods - Hugh Clifford
- Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
- The Innocence of Father Brown - G. K. Chesterton
- The Lair of the White Worm - Bram Stoker
- The Phantom of the Opera — Gaston Leroux
- Ladies Whose Bright Eyes - Ford Madox Ford
- Life Everlasting - Marie Corelli
- The New Machiavelli - H. G. Wells
- Padre Ignacio - Owen Wister
- River Rovers (poetry) - Edwin James Brady
- The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Zuleika Dobson - Max Beerbohm
Births
- January 24 - C. L. Moore, science fiction author
- February 8 - Elizabeth Bishop, poet, Pulitzer Prize winner (+ 1979)
- March 11 - Sir Fitzroy Maclean, inspiration for James Bond
- March 26 - Tennessee Williams, playwright
- April 8 - Emil Cioran, Romanian-born French philosopher and essayist (+ 1995)
- May 20 - Annie M. G. Schmidt, Dutch children's author
- June 6 - Verna Aardema, children's author
- July 21 - Marshall McLuhan - author (+ 1980)
- December 11 - Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel prize-winning Egyptian novelist.
- December 25 - Noel Langley, screenwriter
Deaths
- January 23 - David Graham Phillips, journalist / novelist
- February 7 - Hannah Whitall Smith, Quaker author
- May 9 - Thomas Wentworth Higginson, literary mentor of Emily Dickinson
- May 29 - W. S. Gilbert, humorist
- October 8 - Hesba Stretton, author
- October 29 - Joseph Pulitzer
- November 9 - Howard Pyle, children's author