This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1914.
Children and young people
L. Frank Baum
Tik-Tok of Oz
Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West (as Edith Van Dyne)
Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan of the Apes (book publication)
Elsie J. Oxenham – Girls of the Hamlet Club (first in the Abbey Series)
Lord Dunsany – Five Plays (publication)
Harley Granville-Barker – Vote By Ballot
John Howard Lawson – Atmosphere
J. E. Harold Terry and Lechmere Worrall – The Man Who Stayed at Home(a.k.a. The White Feather)
Terence MacSwiney – The Revolutionist (publication)
Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter C. Hackett – It Pays to Advertise
Elmer Rice – On Trial
Edward Sheldon – The Song of Songs
E. Temple Thurston -The Evolution of Katherine
Horace Annesley Vachell – Quinneys
Robert Frost – North of Boston, including "Mending Wall"
Ernst Lissauer – "Song of Hate against England" (Hassgesang gegen England)
Amy Lowell – Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds
Ezra Pound (ed.) – Des Imagistes: An Anthology
Ernst Stadler – Der Aufbruch (The Departure)
Gertrude Stein – Tender Buttons
Wallace Stevens – "Phases"
Katharine Tynan – The Flower of Peace
Clive Bell – Art
Hall Caine – King Albert's Book
Henry James – Notes of a Son and Brother
Paul Scheerbart – Glasarchitektur (Glass Architecture)
January 8 – Norman Nicholson, English poet (died 1987)
January 15 – Etty Hillesum, Dutch correspondent, diarist and Holocaust victim (died 1943)
January 26 – Kaye Webb, English publisher and journalist (died 1996)
February 5 – William S. Burroughs, American author (died 1997)
February 25 – Frank Bonham, American novelist (died 1988)
March 1 – Ralph Ellison, American scholar and writer (died 1994)
March 4 – Barbara Newhall Follett, American prodigy novelist (went missing in December 1939)
March 27 – Budd Schulberg, American writer (died 2009)
March 28 – Bohumil Hrabal, Czech poet and controversialist (died 1997)
March 31 – Octavio Paz, Nobel Prize winning Mexican author (died 1998)
April 4 – Marguerite Duras, French writer (died 1996)
April 26 – Bernard Malamud, American novelist (died 1986)
May 6 – Randall Jarrell, American poet (died 1965)
May 8 – Romain Gary, Lithuanian-born French novelist (died 1980)
May 12 – James Bacon, author and journalist (died 2010)
June 15 – Lena Kennedy, English novelist (died 1986)
June 17 – Julián Marías, Spanish philosopher and author (died 2005)
June 26 – Laurie Lee, English poet and memoirist (died 1997)
July 15
Hammond Innes, English adventure novelist (died 1998)
Gavin Maxwell, Scottish naturalist and author (died 1969)
July 23 – Alf Prøysen, Norwegian author, musician and children's writer (died 1970)
July 25 – Winifred Foley, English memoirist (died 2009)
August 9 – Tove Jansson, Finnish children's author (died 2001)
August 20 – Colin MacInnes, English novelist (died 1976)
August 26 – Julio Cortázar, Argentine author (died 1984)
September 15 – Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine author (died 1999)
October 1 – Hilda Ellis Davidson, English antiquarian and academic (died 2006)
October 6 – Joan Littlewood, English theater director and biographer (died 2002)
October 26 – John Masters, British Raj novelist (died 1983)
October 27 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (died 1953)
November 22 – Leah Bodine Drake, American poet (died 1964)
December 12 – Patrick O'Brian (Richard Patrick Russ), English historical novelist (died 2000)
January 6 – Henrietta Keddie (Sarah Tytler), Scottish novelist and children's writer (born 1827)
February 25 – John Tenniel, English cartoonist and illustrator (born 1820)
March 17 – Hiraide Shū (平出 修), Japanese novelist, poet, and lawyer (born 1878)
March 25 – Frédéric Mistral, Nobel Prize winning French author (born 1830)
April 2 – Paul Heyse, Nobel Prize winning German author (born 1830)
April 7 – Edith Maude Eaton (Sui Sin Far, 水仙花), English-born writer on Chinese (born 1865)
May 19 – William Aldis Wright, English writer and editor (born 1831)
May 29 – Laurence Irving, English dramatist and novelist (drowned, born 1871)
June 6 – Theodore Watts-Dunton, English critic and poet (born 1832)
June 21 – Bertha von Suttner, Austrian pacifist writer (born 1843)
July 6 – Delmira Agustini, Uruguayan poet (murdered, born 1886)
July 23 – Charlotte Forten Grimké, African American poet (born 1837)
September 4 – Charles Péguy, French poet and essayist (killed in action, born 1873)
September 11 – Mircea Demetriade, Romanian poet and actor (born 1861)
September 22 – Alain-Fournier, French novelist (killed in action, born 1886)
September 25 – Alfred Lichtenstein, German Expressionist writer (killed in action, born 1889)
October 9 – Dumitru C. Moruzi, Russian-born Romanian political figure and social novelist (asthma, born 1850)
October 30 – Ernst Stadler, German Expressionist poet (killed in action, born 1883)
November 3 – Georg Trakl, Austrian Expressionist poet (cocaine overdose, born 1887)
Nobel Prize for Literature: not awarded
John Buchan's thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story His Last Bow (1917) and Jean Rhys' story "Till September Petronella" (1960) are all set on the eve of World War I.
Roger Martin du Gard's L'Été 1914 (penultimate instalment of the novel Les Thibault, 1936), Jean Echenoz's novella 14 (2012), C. S. Forester's novel The African Queen (1935) and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel August 1914 (1971) are all set at the outbreak of World War I.
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