1901 in literature

Poetry

• Henry Ames Blood – Selected Poems of Henry Ames Blood
• Maxim Gorky – The Song of the Stormy Petrel (Песня о Буревестнике)
• Thomas Hardy – Poems of the Past and the Present
• Akiko Yosano (与謝野 晶子) – Midaregami (みだれ髪, Tangled Hair)

Non-fiction

• Annie Besant, Charles Webster Leadbeater – Thought-Forms: A Record of Clairvoyant Investigation
• Sigmund Freud – The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens)
• Francis Procter and Walter Frere – A New History of the Book of Common Prayer
• Seebohm Rowntree – Poverty, A Study of Town Life
• Edith Helen Sichel – Women and Men of the French Renaissance
• Rudolf Steiner – Die Mystik im Aufgange des neuzeitlichen Geisteslebens, und ihr Verhältnis zur modernen Weltan-schauung (Mysticism at the Dawn of Modern Spiritual Life, and its Relationship with Modern World-views)
• A. E. Waite – The Life of Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
• Booker T. Washington – Up from Slavery
• H. G. Wells – Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought

Births

• January 1 – Elisabeth Kyle, Scottish novelist and journalist (died 1982)
• January 17 – Hryhorii Epik, Ukrainian writer and journalist (shot with many other Ukrainian intellectuals at Sandarmokh 1937)
• January 30 – Hans Erich Nossack, German poet, playwright, novelist and short story writer (died 1977)
• January 31 – Marie Luise Kaschnitz (Marie Luise von Holzing-Berslett), German story writer, novelist and poet (died 1974)
• February 1 – Langston Hughes, African-American poet and novelist (died 1967)
• February 2 – Valerian Pidmohylny, Ukrainian modernist (shot at Sandarmokh 1937)
• February 3 – Rosamond Lehmann, English novelist (died 1990)
• February 13 – Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell), Scottish novelist (died 1935)
• February 23 – Ivar Lo-Johansson, Swedish novelist and journalist (died 1990)
• March 4 (or 1903) – Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (Joseph-Casimir Rabearivelo), Malagasy Francophone poet (suicide 1937)
• April 10 – Anna Kavan (Helen Emily Woods, Helen Ferguson), French-born English novelist and short story writer (died 1968)
• April 21 – Gladys Mitchell, English crime fiction writer (died 1983)
• May 1 – Antal Szerb, Hungarian writer (died 1945)
• May 2 – Margaret Wetherby Williams (Margaret Erskine), English crime fiction writer (died 1984)
• May 15 – Xavier Herbert, Australian novelist (died 1984)
• May 26 – Norman Denny, English writer and translator (died 1982)
• June 1 – John Van Druten, English-born American dramatist (died 1957)
• June 23 – Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Turkish novelist and essayist (died 1962)
• July 9 – Barbara Cartland, English romantic novelist, historian and playwright (died 2000)
• July 20 – Dilys Powell, English film critic (died 1995)
• July 25 – Ruth Krauss, American children's author and poet (died 1993)
• August 10 – Sergio Frusoni, Cape Verde poet and promoter of Cape Verdean Creole language (died 1975)
• August 14 – Alice Rivaz, Swiss writer (died 1998)
• August 17 – Heðin Brú, Faroese fiction writer and translator (died 1987)
• August 20 – Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet and translator (died 1968)
• October 25 – Samuil Lehtțir, Soviet Moldovan poet, critic and literary theorist (shot 1937)
• November 3 – André Malraux, French author (died 1976)
• November 4 – Ernest Elmore (John Bude), English crime writer and theatre director (died 1957)
• December 9 – Ödön von Horváth, Austro-Hungarian dramatist and novelist (died 1938)
• December 16 – Margaret Mead, American anthropologist and author (died 1978)

Deaths

• January 1 – Ignatius L. Donnelly, American politician and writer (born 1831)
• January 14 – Víctor Balaguer, Catalan Spanish dramatist and poet (born 1824)
• January 17 – Frederic W. H. Myers, British poet (born 1843)
• January 26 – Grigore Sturdza, Moldavian and Romanian adventurer, literary sponsor and philosopher (pneumonia, born 1821)
• February 2 – John Cordy Jeaffreson, English novelist and non-fiction writer (born 1831)
• February 7 – Rowena Granice Steele, first female novelist in California (born 1824)
• February 15 – Maurice Thompson, American novelist (born 1844)
• February 18 – Anna Gardner, American author, abolitionist, teacher, reformer (born 1816)
• March 19 – Philippe Gille, French dramatist (born 1831)
• April 6 – George Murray Smith, English publisher (born 1824)
• April 10 — Harriet Newell Kneeland Goff, reformer and author (born 1828)
• April 12 – Louis Auguste Sabatier, French theologian (born 1839)
• April 26 – Harriett Ellen Grannis Arey, American educator, author, editor, and publisher (born 1819)
• May 24 – Charlotte Mary Yonge, English novelist (born 1823)
• June 4 – Charlotte Fowler Wells, American phrenologist and publisher (born 1814)
• June 5 – Dagny Juel, Norwegian writer and artists' model (shot, born 1867)
• June 9 – Walter Besant, English novelist and historian (born 1836)
• June 10 – Robert Williams Buchanan, Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist (born 1841)
• July 7 – Johanna Spyri, Swiss children's writer (born 1827)
• July 18 – Jan ten Brink, Dutch novelist (born 1834)
• July 20 – William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (born 1840)
• July 27 – Brooke Foss Westcott, English theologian (born 1825)
• August 4 – Harriet Pritchard Arnold, American author (born 1858)
• August 9 – Vishnudas Bhave, Indian dramatist (unknown birth year)
• October 28 – Paul Rée, German author and philosopher (born 1849)
• October 31 – Julien Leclercq, French Symbolist poet and art critic (born 1865)
• November 6 – Kate Greenaway, English children's illustrator and writer (born 1846)
• November 21 – V. A. Urechia, Romanian historian, writer and politician (born 1834)
• December 28 – Mary K. Buck, Bohemian-born American author (born 1849)

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Sully Prudhomme

References