This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1908.
Children and young people
L. Frank Baum
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville (as Edith Van Dyne)
Kenneth Grahame – The Wind in the Willows
Selma Lagerlöf – The Girl from the Marsh Croft
Lucy Maud Montgomery – Anne of Green Gables
Ferenc Móra – Rab ember fiai (Sons of a Captive)
E. Nesbit – The House of Arden
Beatrix Potter – The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck
Percy F. Westerman – A Lad of Grit
J. M. Barrie – What Every Woman Knows
Jacinto Benavente – Señora ama (The Lady Loves)
Tristan Bernard – Les Jumeaux de Brighton (The Brighton Twins)
Alexandre Bisson – Madame X (La Femme X)
Maurice Maeterlinck – The Blue Bird (L'Oiseau bleu)
Octave Mirbeau – Home (Le Foyer)
Emma Orczy – Beau Brocade
Alicia Ramsey – Byron
W. Graham Robertson – Pinkie and the Fairies
Edward Sheldon – Salvation Nell
J. M. Synge – The Tinker's Wedding
Israel Zangwill – The Melting Pot
Edward Carpenter – Iolaus: Anthology of Friendship
W. H. Davies – Nature Poems
Maria Konopnicka – Rota (Oath)
Robert Baden-Powell – Scouting for Boys
Sarah Bernhardt – My Double Life
Annie Besant, C. W. Leadbeater – Occult Chemistry
Edward Carpenter – The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women
G. K. Chesterton – All Things Considered
The Children's Encyclopedia
W. H. Davies – The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp
Levi H. Dowling – The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ
Gertrude Jekyll – Colour in the Flower Garden
Jack London – War of the Classes
Francisco I. Madero – La sucesión presidencial en 1910
Friedrich Nietzsche (posthumous) – Ecce homo: Wie man wird, was man ist (written 1888)
Alfred R. Tucker – Eighteen Years in Uganda and East Africa
January 9 – Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist philosopher (died 1986)
January 16 – Pavel Nilin, Soviet novelist and playwright (died 1981)
January 18 – Jacob Bronowski, Polish scientist and poet (died 1974)
January 20
Fleur Cowles, American journalist, editor and illustrator (died 2009)
Jean S. MacLeod, Scottish-English romantic novelist (died 2011)
February 4 – Julian Bell, English poet (killed 1937)
February 29 – Dee Brown, American novelist and historian (died 2002)
March 6 – Dame Felicitas Corrigan, English writer and Benedictine nun (died 2003)
March 8 – Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh, Indian-born Bahraini poet (died 2002)
March 22 – Louis L'Amour, American author (died 1988)
May 17 – Frederic Prokosch, American novelist and poet (died 1989)
May 25 – Theodore Roethke, American poet (died 1963)
May 27 – Peggy Ramsay, born Margaret Venniker, Australian-born British theatrical agent (died 1991)
May 28 – Ian Fleming, English espionage novelist (died 1964)
June 14 – Kathleen Raine, English poet, scholar, and translator (died 2003)
June 27 – João Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian novelist (died 1967)
July 23 – Elio Vittorini, Italian author (died 1966)
August 21 – M. M. Kaye, Indian-born English novelist and autobiographer (died 2004)
August 23 – Arthur Adamov, French Absurdist playwright (died 1970)
August 28
Robert Merle, French novelist (died 2004)
Marguerite Young, American novelist, poet and biographer (died 1995)
September 4 – Richard Wright, African-American novelist and poet (died 1960)
September 9 – Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and novelist (died 1950)
September 17 – John Creasey, English crime writer (died 1973)
October 5 – Joshua Logan, American stage and film writer and director (died 1988)
October 13 – Robert Liddell, English biographer, novelist and poet (died 1992)
October 24 – Phyllis Shand Allfrey (Phyllis Byam Shand), Dominican writer (died 1986)
November 8 – Martha Gellhorn, American journalist (suicide 1998)
November 9 – Lucian Boz, Romanian and Australian literary critic (died 2003)
November 21 – Elizabeth George Speare, American children's writer (died 1994)
November 23 – Nelson S. Bond, American author, playwright and scriptwriter (died 2006)
November 28 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, Belgian-born French anthropologist (died 2009)
November 30 – Buddhadeb Bosu, Bengali poet and writer (died 1974)
December 14 – Mária Szepes, Hungarian novelist and screenwriter (died 2007)
January 14 – Holger Drachmann, Danish poet and dramatist (born 1846)
January 18 – Edmund Clarence Stedman, American poet and critic (born 1833)
January 25 – Ouida (Maria Louise Ramé), English novelist (born 1839)
February 7 – Alexander Ertel, Russian novelist and short story writer (born 1855)
March 4 – Mrs. Henry Clarke (Amy Key), English historical novelist and children's writer (born 1853)
March 19 – Eduard Zeller, German philosopher (born 1814)
March 25 – Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov, Russian poet, dramatist and critic (born 1821)
April 20 – Henry Chadwick, English-born American baseball writer and historian (born 1824)
May 7 – Ludovic Halévy, French playwright and author (born 1834)
June 5 – Jonas Lie, Norwegian writer (born 1844)
July 3 – Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist and author (born 1848)
July 28 – Otto Pfleiderer, German theologian (born 1839)
August 4 – Bronson Howard, American dramatist (born 1842)
August 14 – Anton Giulio Barrili, Italian novelist (born 1836)
September 29 – Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (born 1839)
November 8 – Victorien Sardou, French dramatist (born 1831)
Nobel Prize for Literature: Rudolf Christoph Eucken
Newdigate prize: Julian Huxley
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