This article presents lists of literary events and publications in 1917.
Children and young people
Lucy Maud Montgomery — Anne's House of Dreams
Guillaume Apollinaire – The Breasts of Tiresias (Les mamelles de Tirésias, written 1903, first performed)
Bruce Bairnsfather and Arthur Elliot – The Better 'Ole
Ferdinand Bruckner – Der Herr in den Nebeln
Gilbert Cannan – Everybody's Husband
Jean Cocteau – Parade
John Drinkwater – X = 0: A Night of the Trojan War
John Galsworthy – Justice
Georg Kaiser – The Corals
A. A. Milne – Wurzel-Flummery
Luigi Pirandello – Right You Are (if you think so)
Gertrude Stein – An Exercise in Analysis
Ridgely Torrence – Three Plays for a Negro Theater
Brita von Horn – Kring drottningen
Jesse Lynch Williams – Why Marry?
Lascelles Abercrombie – Emblems Of Love
T. S. Eliot – Prufrock, and other observations
Robert Graves – Fairies and Fusiliers
Ivor Gurney – Severn and Somme
James Weldon Johnson – Fifty Years and Other Poems
Joseph Lee – Work-a-Day Warriors
Siegfried Sassoon – The Old Huntsman, and Other Poems
Alan Seeger (posthumously) – Poems (including "I have a rendezvous with Death")
Edward Thomas (posthumously) – Poems (including "Adlestrop")
William Watson – The Man Who Saw: and Other Poems Arising out of the War
W. B. Yeats – The Wild Swans at Coole, Other Verses and a Play in Verse
Max Aitken – Canada at Flanders
Daniel Jones – An English Pronouncing Dictionary
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson – On Growth and Form
January 6 – Maeve Brennan, Irish-born short story writer and journalist (died 1993)
February 11 – Sidney Sheldon, American novelist (died 2007)
February 25 – Anthony Burgess, English novelist (died 1993)
March 1 – Robert Lowell, American poet (died 1977)
March 17 – Carlo Cassola, Italian novelist (died 1987)
April 9 – Johannes Bobrowski, German author (died 1965)
May 16 – Juan Rulfo, Mexican fiction writer (died 1986)
June 13 – Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan novelist (died 2005)
June 16 – Katharine Graham, American journalist (died 2001)
June 17 – Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (died 2000)
July 8 – J. F. Powers, American author (died 1999)
July 15 – Robert Conquest, English-born historian and poet (died 2015)
August 24 – Ruth Park, New Zealand children's writer (died 2010)
October 5 – Magda Szabó, Hungarian novelist, dramatist and essayist (died 2007)
October 24 – Denys Val Baker, Welsh writer (died 1984)
October 31 – Patience Gray, English cookery and travel writer (died 2005)
November 3 – Conor Cruise O'Brien, Irish biographer and political writer (died 2008)
November 12 – Leila Berg, English children's author and education writer (died 2015)
November 28 – Marni Hodgkin (Marion Rous), American-born children's book editor (died 2015)
December 21 – Heinrich Böll, German Nobel Prize winning novelist (died 1985)
Unknown date – Fadwa Toukan, Palestinian poet (died 2003)
January 15 – William De Morgan, English novelist and potter (born 1839)
February 16 – Octave Mirbeau, French novelist and critic (born 1848)
April 3 – Arthur Graeme West, English war poet and military writer (killed in action, born 1891)
April 9
Edward Thomas, British poet and prose writer (killed in action, born 1878)
R. E. Vernède, English war poet (killed in action, born 1875)
April 14 – L. L. Zamenhof, Polish creator of Esperanto (born 1859)
April 21 – Francis Burnand, English dramatist and editor (born 1836)
July 31
Francis Ledwidge, English war poet (killed in action, born 1887)
Hedd Wyn, Welsh-language poet (killed in action, born 1887)
September 28 – T. E. Hulme, English critic (killed in action, born 1883)
October 16 – Walter Flex, German author (died of wounds, born 1887)
November 15 – Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (born 1858)
November 18 – Adrien Bertrand, French novelist (died of wounds, born 1888)
Georges de Peyrebrune, French novelist (born 1841)
Nobel Prize for Literature: Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan
March 8 (February 23 O.S.) – The Russian February Revolution begins in Petrograd. This is the background to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novels in The Red Wheel sequence March 1917 and April 1917 (publication begins 1989).
August 18 – First meeting between Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, the basis of Stephen MacDonald's drama Not About Heroes (1982) and Pat Barker's novel Regeneration (1991).
World War I – The following novels are among those set during the war this year
Philippe Claudel – Les Âmes grises (2005)
Colette – Mitsou (novella, 1919)
Frank Dalby Davison – The Wells of Beersheba: An Epic of the Australian Light Horse 1914-1918 (1933)
Ben Elton – The First Casualty (2005)
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