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The year 1906 in literature involved some significant new books.

EVENTS

December 24 - Reginald Fessenden transmits the first Radio program, a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech, broadcasts

NEW BOOKS

Henry Adams - '' The Education Of Henry Adams ''

Pio Baroja - '' King Paradox ''

Rex Beach - '' The Spoilers ''

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Paul Carus - '' Amitabha ''

Mary Cholmondeley - '' Prison ers''

Joseph Conrad - '' The Mirror Of The Sea ''

William De Morgan - '' Joseph Vance ''

Arthur Conan Doyle - '' Sir Nigel ''

Ford Madox Ford - ''The Fifth Queen''

Zona Gale - '' Romance Island ''

John Galsworthy - '' The Man Of Property ''

Elinor Glyn - '' Beyond The Rocks ''

Remy De Gourmont - '' A Night In The Luxembourg ''

O. Henry - '' The Four Million ''

Hermann Hesse - '' Beneath The Wheel ''

Selma Lagerlöf - '' The Wonderful Adventures Of Nils Holgerson ''

Arthur Machen - '' The House Of Souls ''

George Moore (novelist) - '' My Dead Life ''

Edith Nesbit

---'' The Railway Children ''

---'' The Story Of The Amulet ''

Baroness Orczy

---'' I Will Repay (novel)

---'' A Son Of The People

Felix Salten (attributed) - '' Josephine Mutzenbacher ''

Upton Sinclair - '' The Jungle ''

Natsume Sōseki - '' Botchan ''

Frank Thiess - '' Men At War ''

Mark Twain - '' What Is Man? ''

Mary Augusta Ward - '' Fenwick's Career ''

H. G. Wells - '' In The Days Of The Comet ''

Owen Wister - '' Lady Baltimore ''

NEW DRAMA

John Galsworthy - ''The Silver Box''

Harley Granville-Barker - ''Waste''

George Barr McCutcheon - '' Brewster's Millions '', theatrical adaptation

Baroness Orczy - '' The Sin Of William Jackson

NON-FICTION

Hall Caine - '' My Story ''

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 Atlanta

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

AWARDS