1901 in literature
See also: 1900 in literature, other events of 1901, 1902 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
- October 23 - Mark Twain receives an honorary doctor of literature degree from Yale University.
- October - Mark Twain moves to Riverdale, New York
- First Nobel Prize for Literature awarded.
- The Three Sisters drama by Anton Chekov
New Books
- Kim - Rudyard Kipling
- Up from Slavery - Booker T. Washington
- The House with the Green Shutters - George Douglas
- Travail - Emile Zola
- Bubu de Montparnasse - Charles-Louis Philippe
- The Crisis - Winston Churchill
- My Brilliant Career - Miles Franklin
- The Octopus - Frank Norris
- La becquee - René Boylesve
- The Eternal City - Hall Caine
Births
- January 31 - Marie Luise Kaschnitz, writer (+ 1974)
- April 10 - Anna Kavan, author
- December 16 - Margaret Mead, cultural antropologist and author of Coming of Age in Samoa
Deaths