1917 in literature

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The year 1917 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events[]

In January, Francis Picabia produces the first issue of the Dada periodical 391 in Barcelona.
June 4 - The very first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for a biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.
July - Siegfried Sassoon issues his "Soldier's Declaration" and is sent by the military authorities to Craiglockhart Military Hospital in Edinburgh, where he meets Wilfred Owen.
December 25 - Why Marry?, first dramatic play to win a Pulitzer Prize, opens at the Astor Theatre in New York City.
The Hogarth Press is founded by Leonard and Virginia Woolf.

Henri Barbusse — Under Fire
Adrien Bertrand — L'Orage sur le jardin de Candide
Rhoda Broughton — A Thorn in the Flesh
Edgar Rice Burroughs
- A Princess of Mars
- The Son of Tarzan
Abraham Cahan — The Rise of David Levinsky
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay - Devdas
Mary Cholmondeley — Under One Roof
Joseph Conrad - The Shadow Line
Norman Douglas — South Wind
Arthur Conan Doyle — His Last Bow
George Washington Ellis — The Leopard's Claw
Zona Gale — A Daughter of the Morning
Joseph Hergesheimer — The Three Black Pennys
Ricarda Huch — The Deruga Case
Henry James
- The Ivory Tower (published posthumously)
- The Sense of the Past (published posthumously)
Sinclair Lewis — Knights of Araby
Oscar Micheaux — The Homesteader
Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne's House of Dreams
Baroness Orczy
- Lord Tony's Wife
- A Sheaf of Bluebells
David Graham Phillips — Susan Lenox: Her Rise and Fall
Marmaduke Pickthall — The Job
Ernest Poole — His Family
Horacio Quiroga — Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte
Elizabeth von Arnim — Christine
Mary Augusta Ward
- Missing
- Towards the Goal
Edith Wharton — Summer
P. G. Wodehouse
- The Man with Two Left Feet
- Piccadilly Jim

Main article: 1917 in poetry

February 11 - Sidney Sheldon, novelist (d. 2007)
February 25 - Anthony Burgess, British novelist (d. 1993)
March 1 - Robert Lowell, American poet (d. 1977)
March 17 - Carlo Cassola, Italian novelist (d. 1987)
April 9 - Johannes Bobrowski, German author (d. 1965)
June 16 - Katharine Graham, journalist (d. 2001)
October 24 - Denys Val Baker, Welsh writer (d. 1984)
November 3 - Conor Cruise O'Brien, Irish biographer and political writer (d. 2008)
December 21 - Heinrich Böll, German author, Nobel Prize winner (d. 1985)

January 15 - William de Morgan, novelist
February 16 - Octave Mirbeau, novelist and critic
April 9
- Edward Thomas, poet and prose writer
- R. E. Vernède, war poet
April 14 - L. L. Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto
April 21 - Francis Burnand, dramatist and editor of "Punch"
July 31 - Francis Ledwidge, war poet
July 31 - Hedd Wyn, Welsh-language poet
November 15 - Émile Durkheim, sociologist
November 18 - Adrien Bertrand, French novelist
December 15 - Lady Anne Blunt, descendant of Lord Byron and wife of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt