Events First Pulitzer Prizes awarded Author Hall Caine made a Knight of the British Empire. The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington is published. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. New Books Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War - Guillaume Apollinaire Colas Breugnon - Romain Rolland Edgewater People - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Eminent Victorians - Lytton Strachey Hope's Highway - Sarah Lee Brown Fleming I Have Killed - Blaise Cendrars The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington The Marne - Edith Wharton My Ántonia - Willa Cather The Severed Hand - Blaise Cendrars The War and Elizabeth - Mary Augusta Ward A Writer's Recollections - Mary Augusta Ward The Young Diana - Marie Corelli Births January 16 - Stirling Silliphant, writer, producer (+ 1996) Philip Jose Farmer, science fiction writer February 1 - Dame Muriel Spark, author February 6 - Lothar-Günther Buchheim, author of Das Boot March 9 - Mickey Spillane, mystery writer October 19 - Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher November 29 - Madeleine L'Engle, author of books for children & teens December 11 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer Deaths June 10 - Arrigo Boito, poet and composer November 9 - Guillaume Apollinaire, poet Awards Nobel Prize for Literature: not awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Jesse Lynch Williams, Why Marry? Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Sara Teasdale: Love Songs Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Ernest Poole - His Family
Awards Nobel Prize for Literature: not awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Jesse Lynch Williams, Why Marry? Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Sara Teasdale: Love Songs Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Ernest Poole - His Family