1918 in literature
See also: 1917 in literature, other events of 1918, 1919 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- First Pulitzer Prizes awarded
- Author Hall Caine made a KBE.
- Robert Graves marries Nancy Nicholson. Wedding guests include Wilfred Owen.
New books
- Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War - Guillaume Apollinaire
- Colas Breugnon - Romain Rolland
- Edgewater People - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- Eminent Victorians - Lytton Strachey
- Hope's Highway - Sarah Lee Brown Fleming
- I Have Killed - Blaise Cendrars
- The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington
- The Marne - Edith Wharton
- My Ántonia - Willa Cather
- The Severed Hand - Blaise Cendrars
- The War and Elizabeth - Mary Augusta Ward
- A Writer's Recollections - Mary Augusta Ward
- The Young Diana - Marie Corelli
Births
- January 16
- Stirling Silliphant, writer, producer (+ 1996)
- Philip José Farmer, science fiction writer
- February 1 - Dame Muriel Spark, author
- February 6 - Lothar-Günther Buchheim, author of Das Boot
- March 9 - Mickey Spillane, mystery writer
- July 14 - Arthur Laurents, novelist and screenwriter
- August 9 - Robert Aldrich, writer and filmmaker
- August 20 - Jacqueline Susann, best-selling novelist
- October 19 - Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher
- November 29 - Madeleine L'Engle, author of books for children & teens
- December 11 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer
- December 30 - Al Purdy, poet
- date unknown - Peter Opie, expert in children's literature
- date unknown - Nicholas Moore, poet
- date unknown - Theodore Cogswell, science fiction author
- date unknown - Roger Lancelyn Green, biographer
Deaths
- April 1 - Isaac Rosenberg, poet
- June 10 - Arrigo Boito, poet and composer
- June 26 - Peter Rosegger, poet
- October 5 - Robert Baldwin Ross, friend and literary executor of Oscar Wilde
- November 4 - Wilfred Owen, poet
- November 4 - Andrew Dickson White, diplomat and author
- November 9 - Guillaume Apollinaire, poet
- December 2 - Edmond Rostand, dramatist
- December 15 - Salvatore Farina, novelist
- date unknown - Francis George Fowler, expert on grammar and usage
Awards
- Nobel Prize for Literature: not awarded
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Jesse Lynch Williams, Why Marry?
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Sara Teasdale: Love Songs
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Ernest Poole - His Family