1910 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1910.

Events

January 8 – Serialisation of Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera concludes in the Paris newspaper Le Gaulois.
January 30 – Uncle Wiggily Longears, a rheumatic rabbit created by Howard R. Garis, makes his debut in the Newark News
March – Lesotho author Thomas Mofolo completes his novel Chaka; he leaves Morija suddenly and it is not published until 1925.
March 18 – The first movie version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is released in the U.S. by Edison Studios. One of the first horror films, it features unbilled the actor Charles Ogle as the monster.
March 30 – William Johnston and Paul West's novel The Innocent Murderers is published in New York City, as the first work of academic crime fiction.
April 20 – Halley's Comet reappears after 76 years, and Mark Twain dies at his home, Stormfield, the day after the comet's perihelion. In his autobiography, Twain wrote, "I came in with Halley's comet in 1835. It's coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. The Almighty has said no doubt, 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'"
August 11 – The Buenos Aires Convention is signed, providing for international recognition of copyright.
September – G. K. Chesterton's fictional detective Father Brown makes a first U.K. appearance in the short story "The Blue Cross" in the Story-Teller magazine, having previously appeared on June 23 as "Valentin Follows a Curious Trail" in The Saturday Evening Post.
September 1 – Herbert Beerbohm Tree's elaborate revival of Shakespeare's Henry VIII opens in London. It will run for 254 consecutive performances.
October – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's first novel Mafarka il futurista is cleared of obscenity charges.
Fall – Damon Runyon begins working as a journalist on The New York American.
November 20 – Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy dies of pneumonia aged 82 at Astapovo railway station, after a day's train journey south, fleeing from his home.
Ongoing – Boris Pasternak drops out of the Moscow Conservatory and begins to study law, moving on to study philosophy at the University of Marburg. He also falls in love with Olga Freidenberg.

New books

Births

February 6 – Irmgard Keun, German novelist
February 10 – Joan G. Robinson, English children's writer and illustrator
February 11 – L. T. C. Rolt, English biographer and writer of ghost stories
February 28 – Leonte Răutu, Bessarabian-born Romanian propagandist and censor
March 4 – Basil Boothroyd, English poet and humorist
March 22 – Nicholas Monsarrat, English novelist
May 8 – Andrew E. Svenson, American author and publisher
May 23 – Margaret Wise Brown, American children's writer
June 15 – Marie de Garis, Guernsey ethnographer and lexicographer
June 21 – Clive Sansom, English-born Tasmanian poet and playwright
June 23 – Jean Anouilh, French dramatist
July 14 – Vincent Brome, English biographer and novelist
July 27 – Julien Gracq, French novelist, critic and playwright
August 5 – Jacquetta Hawkes, English writer and archeologist
August 10 – Vladimir Cavarnali, Bessarabian-born Romanian poet, editor, and journalist
August 19 – Quentin Bell, English historian and author
September 8 – Julián Padrón, Venezuelan novelist, journalist and lawyer
September 11 – Manuel Mujica Láinez, Argentine novelist
September 18 – Bernard Kangro, Estonian journalist, author, and poet
September 30 – Edward Hyams, English novelist and historian
October 15 – Haddis Alemayehu, Ethiopian politician and novelist
November 9 – P. M. Hubbard, English crime writer
November 17 – Rachel de Queiroz, Brazilian author
December 19
*Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright and poet
*José Lezama Lima, Cuban writer and poet
December 24
*Jean-Paul Crespelle, French writer
*Fritz Leiber, American writer of fantasy and science fiction
unknown date – Betty Miller, Irish-born Jewish writer

Deaths

January 29 – Edouard Rod, French-Swiss novelist
March 29 – H. Maria George Colby, American writer
April – Frances Margaret Milne, Irish-born American author and librarian
April 3 – Catherine Helen Spence, Australian writer
April 4 – Augusta Harvey Worthen, Australian author and educator
April 9 – Vittoria Aganoor, Italian poet
April 15 – Angie F. Newman, American poet, author, and edito
April 21 – Mark Twain, American writer
May 7 – Emil Friedrich Kautzsch, German Bible scholar
May 10 – Anna Laetitia Waring, Welsh poet and hymnist
May 22 – Jules Renard, French novelist
July 2 – Frederick James Furnivall, English lexicographer
August 4 – Heinrich Julius Holtzmann, German New Testament commentator
August 26 – William James, American philosopher
September 6 – Susan F. Ferree, American journalist and social reformer
September 14 – Emma B. Dunham, American poet, author, teacher
October 17
*William Vaughn Moody, American dramatist and poet
*Julia Ward Howe, American poet and abolitionist
October 27 – Henrietta Gould Rowe, American litterateur and author
November 6 – George Panu, Romanian memoirist, literary critic, journalist and politician
November 15 – Wilhelm Raabe, German novelist
November 20 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist

1910 in literature

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