This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1912.
Children and young people
L. Frank Baum
Sky Island
Phoebe Daring
Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation (as Edith Van Dyne)
The Flying Girl and Her Chum (as Edith Van Dyne)
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan of the Apes
A Princess of Mars
Jack London
A Son of the Sun
The Scarlet Plague
Lucy Maud Montgomery – Chronicles of Avonlea
E. Nesbit – The Magic World
Beatrix Potter – The Tale of Mr. Tod
Jean Webster – Daddy-Long-Legs
Paul Claudel – L'Annonce faite à Marie (The Tidings Brought to Mary, first performed)
George Diamandy – Rațiunea de stat (The Reason of State)
Hugo von Hofmannsthal – Everyman, adapted as Jedermann
Heinrich Mann – Die grosse Liebe (The Great Love, published)
Louis N. Parker – Drake of England
Arthur Schnitzler – Professor Bernhardi
George Bernard Shaw – Pygmalion (published)
G. K. Sowerby – Rutherford and Son
Bayard Veiller – Within the Law
Anna Akhmatova – Vecher (Evening)
Edwin James Brady
Bells and Hobbles
The King's Caravan
Georgian Poetry 1911-12
David Burliuk, Aleksei Kruchenykh, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Velimir Khlebnikov – A Slap in the Face of Public Taste (Пощёчина общественному вкусу)
Pauline Johnson – Flint and Feather
Amy Lowell – A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass
Rabindranath Tagore (writer and translator) – Gitanjali (Song Offerings)
Hilaire Belloc – The Servile State
Arnold Bennett – Those United States
Alexander Berkman – Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
David Burliuk, Viktor Khlebnikov, Aleksei Kruchenykh, Vladimir Mayakovsky – A Slap in the Face of Public Taste (Пощёчина общественному вкусу)
Aleister Crowley – Magick (Book 4)
Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger – Du "Cubisme"
Henry H. Goddard – The Kallikak Family
Carl Jung – Psychology of the Unconscious (Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido)
Frigyes Karinthy – Így írtok ti (That's How You Write, literary parodies)
Pierre Loti – Un Pèlerin d'Angkor (A Pilgrimage to Angkor)
Donald Lowrie – My Life in Prison
Dumitru C. Moruzi – Pribegi în țară răpită
John Muir – The Yosemite
P. D. Ouspensky – Tertium Organum
Bertrand Russell – The Problems of Philosophy
Ernst Troeltsch – Die Soziallehren der christlichen Kirchen und Gruppen (The Sociology of the Christian Churches and Groups)
January 7 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (died 1988)
January 30 – Barbara Tuchman, American historian (died 1989)
February 10 – Ena Lamont Stewart, Scottish playwright (died 2006)
February 11 – Roy Fuller, English poet and novelist (died 1991)
February 12 – R. F. Delderfield, English novelist and playwright (died 1972)
February 15 – George Mikes, Hungarian-born English humorist (died 1987)
February 17 – Andre Norton, American sci-fi and fantasy author (died 2005)
February 20 – Pierre Boulle, French novelist (died 1994)
February 27 – Lawrence Durrell, English poet and novelist (died 1990)
March 7 – Dora Oake Russell, Newfoundland writer, diarist and journalist (died 1986)
March 12 – Kylie Tennant, Australian novelist, dramatist and historian (died 1988)
April 16 – Garth Williams, American children's writer and illustrator (died 1996)
May 3 – May Sarton, American writer (died 1995)
May 16 – Studs Terkel, American writer and broadcaster (died 2008)
May 20 – J. L. Carr, English novelist and publisher (died 1994)
May 27 – John Cheever, American writer (died 1982)
May 29 – Pamela Hansford Johnson, English poet, novelist and critic (died 1981)
June 20 – Anthony Buckeridge, English children's author (died 2004)
June 24 – Mary Wesley, English novelist (died 2002)
June 27 – E. R. Braithwaite, Guyanese-born novelist, teacher and diplomat (died 2016)
June 29 – John Toland, American Pulitzer Prize winning historian and biographer (died 2004)
July 3 – Elizabeth Taylor, English novelist (died 1975)
July 6 – Heinrich Harrer, Austrian explorer and author (died 2006)
July 14 – Northrop Frye, Canadian critic (died 1991)
July 17 – Michael Gilbert, English mystery and thriller novelist (died 2006)
August 4 – Virgilio Piñera, Cuban poet and short-story writer (died 1979)
August 10 – Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer (died 2001)
August 14 – Erwin Strittmatter, German writer (died 1994)
August 18 – Elsa Morante, Italian author (died 1985)
August 23 – Nelson Rodrigues, Brazilian author (died 1980)
September 5? – Sesto Pals, Romanian Israeli poet and philosopher (died 2002)
September 12 – J. F. Hendry, Scottish-born poet (died 1986)
September 24 – Ian Serraillier, English novelist and poet (died 1994)
October 31 – Oscar Dystel, American paperback publisher (died 2014)
November 8 – Monica Edwards, English children's author (died 1998)
November 12 – Donagh MacDonagh, Irish poet, playwright and judge (died 1968)
November 24 – Garson Kanin, American dramatist and screenwriter (died 1999)
November 25 – Francis Durbridge, English dramatist (died 1998)
November 26 – Eugène Ionesco, Romanian Absurdist playwright (died 1994)
December 4 – Ian Wallace, English science fiction writer (died 1998)
January 24 – James Allen, English author of "As a Man Thinketh" (born 1864)
January 27 – Alexandre Bisson, French playwright, vaudeville creator, and novelist (born 1848)
January 28 – Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist (born 1819)
February 8 – Girish Chandra Ghosh, Bengali poet, playwright and novelist (born 1844)
March 1 – George Grossmith, English comic singer and writer (born 1847)
April 6 – Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet (born 1855)
April 10 – Gabriel Monod, French historian (born 1844)
April 15 – In the wreck of the RMS Titanic
Jacques Futrelle, American author (born 1875)
William Thomas Stead, English journalist (born 1849)
April 20 – Bram Stoker, Irish novelist and theater manager (born 1847)
May 5 – Rafael Pombo, Colombian mathematician and poet (born 1833)
May 14 – August Strindberg, Swedish dramatist (born 1849)
May 19 – Bolesław Prus, Polish novelist (born 1847)
June 13 – Alice Diehl, English novelist and concert pianist (born 1844)
July 20 – Andrew Lang, Scottish poet, novelist and critic (born 1844)
July 24 – Addison Peale Russell, American essayist (born 1826)
August 13 – Horace Howard Furness, American Shakespeare scholar (born 1833)
August 29 – Theodor Gomperz, Austrian philosopher (born 1832)
September 9 – Berta Behrens, German novelist (born 1850)
October 21 – Robert Barr, Scottish Canadian short story writer and novelist (born 1849)
December 9 – Louis de Gramont, French journalist, dramatist and librettist (born 1855)
December 19 – Mir Mosharraf Hossain, Bengali novelist, playwright and essayist (born 1847)
Unknown date – Dharmavaram Ramakrishnamacharyulu, Telugu dramatist (born 1853)
Nobel Prize for Literature: Gerhart Hauptmann
Eugene O'Neill's drama The Iceman Cometh and J. B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls (both 1945) are set in this year.
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