1915 in literature
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See also: 1914 in literature, other events of 1915, 1916 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Russian poet Sergei Yesenin (1895–1925), published his first book of poems titled "Radumitsa."
New books
- The Forged Note - Oscar Micheaux
- The Genius - Theodore Dreiser
- The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - T.S. Eliot
- The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
- North of Boston - Robert Frost
- Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
- The Rainbow - D. H. Lawrence
- The Song of the Lark - Willa Cather
Awards
Births
- March 18 - Richard Condon, novelist
- June 7 - Graham Ingels, comic-book artist
- July 1 - Alun Lewis, war poet
- July 7 - Margaret Walker, poet and novelist
- July 14 - Jerome Lawrence, dramatist
- July 31 - Herbert Aptheker, historian
- August 19 - Ring Lardner Jr., journalist and scriptwriter, one of the "Hollywood Ten"
- November 8 - G. S. Fraser, poet and critic
- December 22 - David Martin, poet
- December 27 - John Cornford, poet
Deaths
- January 3 - James Elroy Flecker, poet, novelist and dramatist
- February 4 - Mary Elizabeth Braddon, novelist
- May 26 - Julian Grenfell, war poet
- November 15 - Booker T. Washington, writer and educator