Events New Books Canadian Born - Mary Augusta Ward The Devil and the Deep Sea - Rhoda Broughton The Emerald City of Oz - L. Frank Baum Heritage of the Desert - Zane Grey Howards End - E. M. Forster La Vagabonde - Colette Pelle the Conqueror (final volume) - Martin Andersen Nexø The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux The Return - Walter de la Mare Twenty Years at Hull House - Jane Addams The Village - Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin What's Wrong With The World - G. K. Chesterton The Woman Thou Gavest Me - Hall Caine Births February 6 - Irmgard Keun, author (+ 1982) December 19 - Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright and poet Deaths April 21 - Mark Twain, writer August 26 - William James, author November 20 - Leo Tolstoy, novelist Awards Nobel Prize for Literature: Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse