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1916 in literature
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The year 1916 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
The Journal of Negro History is founded by Carter Godwin Woodson , the father of "Black History" and "Negro History Week."
During the summer, 15-year-old Margaret Mitchell writes the manuscript to a novella called Lost Laysen in two notebooks. She would later give the manuscript to a boyfriend and the book would remain lost until it was rediscovered in the mid-1990s and finally published in 1996. Meanwhile, Mitchell would go on to write Gone with the Wind .
New books
New drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
March 4 - Hans Eysenck , psychologist
April 12 - Beverly Cleary , children's author
April 15 - Helene Hanff , author
May 21 - Harold Robbins (+ 1997 )
May 28 - Walker Percy (+ 1990 )
July 14 - Natalia Ginzburg , author
September 13 - Roald Dahl , author
September 19 - Giles Romilly , journalist
October 3 - James Herriot , popular author of "vet" stories
October 16 - David Gascoyne , author and poet
December 14 - Shirley Jackson , author
December 17 - Penelope Fitzgerald , novelist
date unknown - Mary Stewart , novelist
Deaths
February 6 - Rubén Darío , writer
February 28 - Henry James , writer
April 26 - Mário de Sá-Carneiro , novelist and poet
May 3 - Patrick Pearse , poet and Irish nationalist leader
May 13 - Sholom Aleichem , Yiddish humorist
May 31 - Gorch Fock , poet and novelist
July 1 - Gilbert Waterhouse , war poet
August 8 - Lily Braun , feminist writer
September 22 - Edward Wyndham Tennant , war poet
October 7 - James Whitcomb Riley , poet
October 25 - John Todhunter , poet and dramatist
November 14 - Saki , author
November 15 - Molly Elliot Seawell , novelist
November 22 - Jack London , novelist
November 27 - Emile Verhaeren , Symbolist poet
date unknown - Olindo Guerrini , poet
date unknown - Émile Faguet , critic
date unknown - Petar Kočić , poet
Awards
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