1915 in literature

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

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 Awards 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

• May 3 - In Flanders Fields is written by Canadian poet John McCrae.
• Russian poet Sergei Yesenin (1895–1925), published his first book of poems titled "Radumitsa."

New books

• The Forged Note - Oscar Micheaux
• The Genius - Theodore Dreiser
• The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
• Herland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - T.S. Eliot
• The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
• North of Boston - Robert Frost
• Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
• The Rainbow - D. H. Lawrence
• The Song of the Lark - Willa Cather

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Romain Rolland (French)

Births

• March 18 - Richard Condon, novelist
• June 7 - Graham Ingels, comic-book artist
• July 1 - Alun Lewis, war poet
• July 7 - Margaret Walker, poet and novelist
• July 14 - Jerome Lawrence, dramatist
• July 31 - Herbert Aptheker, historian
• August 19 - Ring Lardner Jr., journalist and scriptwriter, one of the "Hollywood Ten"
• November 8 - G. S. Fraser, poet and critic
• December 22 - David Martin, poet
• December 27 - John Cornford, poet

Deaths

• January 3 - James Elroy Flecker, poet, novelist and dramatist
• February 4 - Mary Elizabeth Braddon, novelist
• May 26 - Julian Grenfell, war poet
• November 15 - Booker T. Washington, writer and educatorfr:1915 en littérature

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