This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1918.
Children and young people
Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
Johnny Gruelle – Raggedy Ann Stories
Norman Lindsay – The Magic Pudding: Being The Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff
Ferenc Móra – Kincskereső kisködmön (A Fortune-Hunting Little Frock Coat)
Bertolt Brecht – Baal (written)
John Drinkwater – Abraham Lincoln
Marcel Gerbidon and Paul Armont – School for Coquettes (L'École des cocottes)
Susan Glaspell – Tickless Time
Hugo von Hofmannsthal – The Difficult Man
James Joyce – Exiles
Georg Kaiser – Gas
Gregorio Martínez Sierra – Sueño de Una Noche de Agosto (Dream of an August Night)
Vladimir Mayakovsky – Mystery-Bouffe (Мистерия-Буфф, Misteriya-Buff)
Emma Orczy (Baroness Orczy) – The Legion of Honour (adaptation of A Sheaf of Bluebells)
Luigi Pirandello
But It's Nothing Serious (Ma non è una cosa seria)
The Rules of the Game (Il giuoco delle parti, literally "The Game of Rôles")
Guillaume Apollinaire – Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War, 1913-1916
Laurence Binyon – The New World: Poems
Vera Brittain – Verses of a VAD
Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne (Terence MacSwiney) – Battle-cries
Walter de la Mare – The Marionettes
Siegfried Sassoon – Counter-Attack and Other Poems
Edward Thomas (posthumous) – Last Poems
Tristan Tzara – Vingt-cinq poèmes
Henry Adams – The Education of Henry Adams
Enid Bagnold – A Diary Without Dates
Clive Bell – Pot-boilers
Laurence Binyon – For Dauntless France
William Inge – The Philosophy of Plotinus
Daniel Jones – An Outline of English Phonetics
Federico García Lorca – Impressiones y Paisajes (Impressions and Landscapes)
Walther Rathenau – An Deutschlands Jugend
Oswald Spengler – The Decline of the West (Der Untergang des Abendlandes)
Dr Marie Stopes
Married Love
Wise Parenthood
Lytton Strachey – Eminent Victorians
Mary Augusta Ward – A Writer's Recollections
January 16
Stirling Silliphant, American writer, producer (died 1996)
Philip José Farmer, American science fiction writer (died 2009)
February 1 – Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist (died 2006)
February 6 – Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German novelist, war correspondent and painter (died 2007)
March 9 – Mickey Spillane, American mystery writer (died 2006)
March 10 – Theodore Cogswell, American science fiction author (died 1987)
March 15 – Richard Ellmann, American literary biographer (died 1987)
April 23
Maurice Druon, French historical novelist (died 2009)
James Kirkup, English poet (died 2009)
May 16 – Juan Rulfo, Mexican author (died 1986)
July 9 – John Heath-Stubbs, English poet and translator (died 2006)
July 14 – Arthur Laurents, American novelist and screenwriter (died 2011)
August 9 – Robert Aldrich, American writer and filmmaker (died 1983)
August 20 – Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (died 1974)
September 19 – Penelope Mortimer, Welsh-born English novelist and biographer (died 1999)
October 19 – Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher (died 1990)
October 29 – Ștefan Baciu, Romanian and Brazilian poet, novelist and literary promoter (died 1993)
November 2 – Roger Lancelyn Green, English biographer (died 1987)
November 16 – Nicholas Moore, English poet (died 1986)
November 20 – Naomi Frankel, German-born Israeli novelist (died 2009)
November 25 – Peter Opie, English writer on children's literature and lore (died 1982)
November 29 – Madeleine L'Engle, American writer for children and teens (died 2007)
December 11 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist (died 2008)
December 30 – Al Purdy, Canadian poet (died 2000)
January 1 – William Wilfred Campbell, Canadian poet (born 1860)
January 6 – Dora Sigerson Shorter, Irish poet, novelist and sculptor (born 1866)
January 28 – John McCrae, Canadian military surgeon and war poet (pneumonia, born 1872)
April 1 – Isaac Rosenberg, English poet and artist (killed in action, born 1890)
April – William Hope Hodgson, English author and essayist (killed in action, born 1877)
May 8 – Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg, Austrian writer and traveler (born 1851)
May 27 – Francis George Fowler, English grammarian (tuberculosis contracted on military service, born 1871)
June 10 – Arrigo Boito (Tobia Gorio), Italian poet and composer (born 1842)
June 26 – Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet (born 1843)
June 28 – Alexander Turnbull, New Zealand bibliophile (born 1868)
July 30 – Joyce Kilmer, American poet (killed in action, born 1886)
October 5 – Robbie Ross, journalist (heart failure, born 1869)
November 4
Wilfred Owen, English poet (killed in action, born 1893)
Andrew Dickson White, American diplomat and author (born 1832)
November 9 – Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet, dramatist, novelist and critic (influenza, born 1880)
November 24 – Annie Hall Cudlip, English novelist, journalist and editor (born 1838)
December 1 – Margit Kaffka, Hungarian novelist, short story writer and poet (born 1880)
December 2 – Edmond Rostand, French poet and dramatist (influenza, born 1868)
December 15 – Salvatore Farina, Italian novelist (born 1846)
Nobel Prize for Literature: not awarded
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Jesse Lynch Williams, Why Marry?
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Sara Teasdale: Love Songs
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Ernest Poole – His Family
The following novels relate to the end of World War I:
Pat Barker – The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road (1993–1995)
Alfred Döblin – November 1918 (1939–1950)
Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu – Yaban ("The Strange", 1932)
Thomas Keneally – Gossip from the Forest (1975)
R. C. Sherriff's drama Journey's End (1928) is set on the Western Front (World War I) March 18–21
Sjón's novel Moonstone – The Boy Who Never Was (Mánasteinn – drengurinn sem aldrei var til, 2013) is set this autumn, referencing the 1918 flu pandemic and eruption of the Katla volcano
According to Stephenie Meyer's novel Twilight (2005), Edward Cullen is turned into a vampire to prevent him from dying in the 1918 flu pandemic in Chicago
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