Events New Books The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - James Weldon Johnson Adnams Orchard - Sarah Grand Alexander's Bridge - Willa Cather Bells and Hobbles (poetry) - Edwin James Brady Between two stools - Rhoda Broughton The Crock of Gold - James Stephens Death in Venice - Thomas Mann The Financier - Theodore Dreiser The King's Caravan (poetry) - Edwin James Brady Mrs. Spring - Sui-Sin Far A Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs The Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell The Promised - Land Mary Antin The Reef - Edith Wharton Riders of the Purple Sage - Zane Grey The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town - Stephen Leacock Theory of Psychoanalysis - Carl Jung The Unbearable Bassington - Saki Births January 7 - Charles Addams, cartoonist January 14 - Rudolf Hagelstange, German lyricist, narrator and essayist (+ 1984) January 30 - Barbara W. Tuchman, historian (+ 1989) February 11 - Roy Fuller English poet/novelist February 20 - Pierre Boulle, author (+ 1994) May 27 - John Cheever, writer November 26 - Eugène Ionesco, playwright (+ 1994) Deaths April 20 - Bram Stoker, author May 14 - August Strindberg, writer Awards Nobel Prize for Literature: Nils Gustaf Dalén