1915 in literature

See also: 1914 in literature, other events of 1915, 1916 in literature, list of years in literature.

Table of contents 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• The Good Soldier[?] by Ford Madox Ford is published. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

• The Rainbow[?] by D. H. Lawrence is published. In 2001, the book would be one of three books by Lawrence to be on the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

New Books

• Around Old Chester[?] - Margaret Deland[?]
• The Bent Twig[?] - Dorothy Canfield Fisher[?]
• The Bride of the Sun[?] - Gaston Leroux
• The Conflict of Section[?] - Otis M. Shackelford[?]
• Eltham House[?] - Mary Augusta Ward
• The Forged Note[?] - Oscar Micheaux
• The Genius[?] - Theodore Dreiser
• The Good Soldier[?] - Ford Madox Ford
• A Great Success[?] - Mary Augusta Ward
• Herland[?] - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock[?] - T.S. Eliot
• The Metamorphis[?] - Franz Kafka
• Moonbeams From the Larger Lunacy[?] - Stephen Leacock
• North of Boston[?] - Robert Frost
• Of Human Bondage[?] - W. Somerset Maugham
• Painted Roofs[?] - Dorothy Richardson[?]
• The Pentecost of Calamity[?] - Owen Wister[?]
• The Rainbow[?] - D. H. Lawrence
• The Song of the Lark[?] - Willa Cather
• The Underdogs[?] - Mariano Azuela[?]
• The Unknown Man[?] - Thomas Hamilton B. Walker[?]

Births

• January 12 - Paul Jarrico[?], writer (+ 1997)
• January 20 - C. W. Ceram[?], author († 1972)
• Patrick Leigh Fermor, American author.
• Thomas Merton, author (+ 1968)

Deaths

• February 4 - Mary Elizabeth Braddon, novelist
• November 4 - Booker T. Washington, author

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Romain Rolland (French)