1917 In Literature

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

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