See also: 1914 in literature, other events of 1915, 1916 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
New Books
- Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
- The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
- The Unknown Man - Thomas Hamilton B. Walker
- The Rainbow - D. H. Lawrence
- The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock - T.S. Eliot
- North of Boston - Robert Frost
- The Conflict of Section - Otis M. Shackelford
Births
- January 12 - Paul Jarrico, writer (+ 1997)
- January 20 - C. W. Ceram, author († 1972)
- Patrick Leigh Fermor, American author.
- Thomas Merton, author (+ 1968)