1906 in literature
See also: 1905 in literature, other events of 1906, 1907 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
- December 24 - Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio program, a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech, broadcasts
New Books
- The Education of Henry Adams - Henry Adams
- What is Man? - Mark Twain
- Amitabha - Paul Carus
- The Mirror of the Sea - Joseph Conrad
Births
- January 22 - Robert E. Howard, American fantasy author (+ 1936)
- April 13 - Samuel Beckett, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1969
- October 14 - Hannah Arendt, German/US intellectual
Deaths
- February 9 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet
- April 11 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher
- May 23 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright