1918 in literature

See also: 1917 in literature, other events of 1918, 1919 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• First Pulitzer Prizes awarded

New Books

• The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington
• Eminent Victorians - Lytton Strachey
• Hope's Highway - Sarah Lee Brown Fleming

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
• December 11 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer

Deaths

• June 10 - Arrigo Boito, poet and composer

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: not awarded
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Ernest Poole - His Family
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Sara Teasdale: Love Songs
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Jesse Lynch Williams, Why Marry?