1906 in literature
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See also: 1905 in literature, other events of 1906, 1907 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- December 24 - Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio program, a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech, broadcasts
New books
- Amitabha - Paul Carus
- Beyond the Rocks - Elinor Glyn
- Botchan - Natsume Sōseki
- The Education of Henry Adams - Henry Adams
- Fenwick's Career - Mary Augusta Ward
- The House of Souls - Arthur Machen
- In the Days of the Comet - H. G. Wells
- Joseph Vance - William de Morgan
- The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
- King Paradox - Pio Baroja
- Lady Baltimore - Owen Wister
- Men At War - Frank Thiess
- The Man Who Was Thursday - G. K. Chesterton
- The Mirror of the Sea - Joseph Conrad
- My Dead Life - George Moore (novelist)
- A Night in the Luxembourg - Remy de Gourmont
- Prisoners - Mary Cholmondeley
- Romance Island - Zona Gale
- The Spoilers - Rex Beach
- What is Man? - Mark Twain
- The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgerson - Selma Lagerlöf
Births
- January 22 - Robert E. Howard, American fantasy author (d. 1936)
- January 23 - Anya Seton, American romantic author (d. 1990)
- February 15 - Musa Calil, poet
- March 25 - A. J. P. Taylor, historian
- April 13 - Samuel Beckett, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1969
- June 20 - Catherine Cookson, best-selling novelist
- July 18 - Clifford Odets, dramatist
- August 30 - Elizabeth Longford, biographer
- September 25 - Franklin Garrett, historian of Alabama
- October 10 - R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
- October 14 - Hannah Arendt, German/US intellectual
Deaths
- February 9 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet
- March 2 - Ellen Mary Clerke, novelist
- April 6 - Alexander Kielland, novelist
- April 11 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher
- April 14 - Nora Chesson, poet
- May 23 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright
- June 29 - Albert Sorel, historian
- June 30 - Jean Lorrain, Symbolist poet
- December 6 - Anne Ross Cousin, poet