This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1911.
Children and young adults
J. M. Barrie – Peter and Wendy (later editions Peter Pan and Wendy)
L. Frank Baum
The Sea Fairies
The Daring Twins
Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John (as Edith Van Dyne)
The Flying Girl (as Edith Van Dyne)
Frances Hodgson Burnett – The Secret Garden
L. M. Montgomery – The Story Girl
Ferenc Móra – Mindenki Jánoskája (Johnny to Everyone)
Lucy Fitch Perkins – Dutch Twins (first in the Twins series)
Beatrix Potter – The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes
Jean Webster – Just Patty
Tristan Bernard – Le petit café
George Diamandy – Dolorosa
St. John Greer Ervine – Mixed Marriage
Gregorio Martínez Sierra
Canción de cuna (Cradle Song)
Primavera en otoño (Spring in Autumn)
Emma Orczy – The Duke's Wager
Louis N. Parker – Disraeli
Rainis – Indulis un Ārija ("Indulis and Ārija")
Arthur Schnitzler – Das weite Land (The Vast Domain, The Distant Land or Undiscovered Country)
George Bernard Shaw – Fanny's First Play
Karl Vollmöller – Das Mirakel
Hugo von Hofmannsthal – Jedermann
W. B. Yeats – The Countess Cathleen (adapted for performance)
Edwin James Brady – River Rovers
Else Lasker-Schüler – Meine Wunder
John Masefield – The Everlasting Mercy
Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition.
Wassily Kandinsky – Über das Geistige in der Kunst (Concerning the Spiritual in Art; dated 1912)
Walter John Kilner – The Human Atmosphere
Jack London – The Cruise of the Snark
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti – Le futurisme
Robert Michels – Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy (Zur Soziologie des Parteiwesens in der modernen Demokratie; Untersuchungen über die oligarchischen Tendenzen des Gruppenlebens)
John Muir – My First Summer in the Sierra
Rudolf Steiner – Mystics of the Renaissance (English translation)
Evelyn Underhill – Mysticism: A Study of the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness
A. E. Waite
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot
The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry
January 9 – Eva Alexanderson, Swedish novelist and translator (died 1994)
January 18 – José María Arguedas, Peruvian author (died 1969)
January 24 – C. L. Moore, American science fiction author (died 1987)
February 4 – Geoffrey Willans, English novelist and comic writer (died 1958)
February 8 – Elizabeth Bishop, American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner (died 1979)
March 11 – Fitzroy Maclean, Scottish political writer and autobiographer (died 1996)
March 16 – Sybille Bedford, German-born English novelist and journalist (died 2006)
March 26 – Tennessee Williams, American playwright (died 1983)
April 19 – Ursula Moray Williams, English children's writer (died 2006)
April 8 – Emil Cioran, Romanian-born French philosopher and essayist (died 1995)
May 15 – Max Frisch, Swiss author (died 1991)
May 20 – Annie M. G. Schmidt, Dutch children's author (died 1995)
May 28 – Fritz Hochwälder, Austrian playwright (died 1986)
June 2 – Xiao Hong (Qiao Yin, 張廼瑩) Chinese author (died 1942)
June 6 – Verna Aardema (Verna Norberg), American children's author (died 2000)
June 30 – Czesław Miłosz, Lithuanian-born Polish author, Nobel Prize in Literature winner (died 2004)
July 17 – Yang Jiang, Chinese playwright, author, and translator (died 2016)
July 21 – Marshall McLuhan, Canadian media theorist (died 1980)
July 22 – George Ivașcu, Romanian journalist, literary critic, and communist militant (died 1988)
October 13 – Millosh Gjergj Nikolla, Albanian poet and writer (died 1938)
November 2 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet, Nobel Prize winner (died 1996)
November 19 – Mary Elizabeth Counselman, American author and poet (died 1995)
December 11 – Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian novelist, Nobel Prize in literature winner (died 2006)
December 25 – Noel Langley, South African-born American screenwriter (died 1980)
January 23 – David Graham Phillips, American journalist and novelist (murdered, born 1867)
February 7 – Hannah Whitall Smith, American Quaker author (born 1832)
February 25 – Friedrich Spielhagen, German novelist, literary theorist and translator (born 1829)
March 7 – Antonio Fogazzaro, Italian novelist (born 1842)
April 14 – George Cary Eggleston, American memoirist (born 1839)
April 25 – Emilio Salgari, Italian novelist (suicide, born 1862)
April 30 – Stanisław Brzozowski, Polish philosopher, publicist and critic (tuberculosis, born 1878)
May 9 – Thomas Wentworth Higginson, American writer, abolitionist and advocate of women's suffrage (born 1823)
May 29 – W. S. Gilbert, English librettist, dramatist and comic poet (born 1836)
June 10 – Adolf Wilbrandt, German novelist and dramatist (born 1837)
July 21 – Philippe Monnier, Swiss writer in French (born 1864)
September 5 – Katherine Thurston, Irish novelist (born 1875)
September 9 – Francis March, American lexicographer and philologist (born 1825)
October 8 – Hesba Stretton (Sarah Smith), English children's writer (born 1832)
October 29 – Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-born American journalist and publisher (born 1847)
November 9 – Howard Pyle, American children's author (born 1853)
December 1 – Richard Barham Middleton, English poet and editor (born 1882)
December 29 – Rosamund Marriott Watson, English poet (born 1860)
Nobel Prize for Literature: Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck, Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist
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