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EVENTS
Siegfried Sassoon
issues his "Soldier's Declaration" and is sent by the military authorities to Craiglockhart Military Hospital in Edinburgh, where he meets
Wilfred Owen
.
,
Maude H. Elliott
, and
Florence Hall
receive the first Pulitzer for a biography (for ''
Julia Ward Howe
'').
Jean Jules Jusserand
receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work ''
With Americans Of Past And Present Days
.''
Herbert B. Swope
receives the first Pulitzer for
Journalism
for his work for the ''
New York World
''.
December 25
- ''
Why Marry?
'', first dramatic play to win a
Pulitzer Prize
, opens at the
Astor Theatre
in
New York City
.
NEW BOOKS
''
Canada At Flanders
'' —
Max Aitken
''
Christine
'' —
Elizabeth Von Arnim
''
A Daughter Of The Morning
'' —
Zona Gale
''
Ethiopia, The Land Of Promise
'' —
Clayton Adams
''
His Family
'' —
Ernest Poole
''
The Homesteader
'' —
Oscar Micheaux
''
The Job
'' —
Sinclair Lewis
''
Knights Of Araby
'' —
Marmaduke Pickthall
''
The Leopard's Claw
'' —
George Washington Ellis
''
The Man With Two Left Feet
'' —
P. G. Wodehouse
''
Missing
'' —
Mary Augusta Ward
''
On Growth And Form
'' —
D'Arcy Thompson
''
The Rise Of David Levinsky
'' —
Abraham Cahan
''
South Wind
'' —
Norman Douglas
''
Summer
'' —
Edith Wharton
'''' —
David Graham Phillips
''
A Thorn In The Flesh
'' —
Rhoda Broughton
''
The Three Black Pennys
'' —
Joseph Hergesheimer
''
Towards The Goal
'' —
Mary Augusta Ward
''
Under Fire
'' —
Henri Barbusse
''
Under One Roof
'' —
Mary Cholmondeley
NEW DRAMA
Ferdinand Bruckner
- ''Der Herr in den Nebeln''
POETRY
T. S. Eliot
- ''
Prufrock And Other Observations
''
BIRTHS
February 11
-
Sidney Sheldon
, novelist
February 25
-
Anthony Burgess
, novelist
March 1
-
Robert Lowell
, poet
June 16
-
Katharine Graham
, journalist
November -
Conor Cruise O'Brien
, biographer and political writer
December 21
-
Heinrich Böll
, German author,
Nobel Prize
winner
''date unknown'' -
Jack Davis
, dramatist
DEATHS
January 15
-
William De Morgan
, novelist
February 16
-
Octave Mirbeau
, novelist and critic
April 9
-
Edward Thomas
, poet and prose writer
April 14
-
L. L. Zamenhof
, creator of Esperanto
April 21
-
Francis Burnand
, dramatist and editor of "Punch"
July 2
- Sir
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
, actor-manager
July 31
-
Francis Ledwidge
, war poet
July 31
-
Hedd Wyn
, Welsh-language poet
November 15
-
Émile Durkheim
, sociologist
December 15
-
Lady Anne Blunt
, descendant of
Lord Byron
and wife of
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
''date unknown'' -
R. E. Vernède
, war poet
AWARDS
,
Henrik Pontoppidan