1906 in literature

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The year 1906 in literature involved some significant new books.

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Non-fiction
5 Births
6 Deaths
7 Awards

Events

December 24 - Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio program, a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech, broadcasts.
Annie Carroll Moore opens the children's department at the New York Public Library.

New books

Henry Adams - The Education of Henry Adams
Pio Baroja - King Paradox
L. Frank Baum - John Dough and the Cherub
- - Annabel (as "Suzanne Metcalf")
- - Aunt Jane's Nieces (as "Edith Van Dyne")
- - Daughters of Destiny (as "Schuyler Staunton")
- - Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea (as "Capt. Hugh Fitzgerald")
- - The Twinkle Tales (as "Laura Bancroft")
Rex Beach - The Spoilers
Hall Caine - Drink: A Love Story on a Great Question
Paul Carus - Amitabha
Mary Cholmondeley - Prisoners
Joseph Conrad - The Mirror of the Sea
William de Morgan - Joseph Vance
Arthur Conan Doyle - Sir Nigel
Ford Madox Ford - The Fifth Queen
Zona Gale - Romance Island
John Galsworthy - The Man of Property
Ellen Glasgow - The Wheel of Life
Elinor Glyn - Beyond the Rocks
Remy de Gourmont - A Night in the Luxembourg
O. Henry - The Four Million
Hermann Hesse - Beneath the Wheel
Selma Lagerlöf - The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgerson
Arthur Machen - The House of Souls
George Moore (novelist) - My Dead Life
Edith Nesbit - The Railway Children
- The Story of the Amulet
Baroness Orczy - I Will Repay (novel)
- A Son of the People
David Maclean Parry - The Scarlet Empire
Felix Salten (attributed) - Josephine Mutzenbacher
Upton Sinclair - The Jungle
Natsume Sōseki - Botchan
Frank Thiess - Men At War
Mark Twain - What Is Man?
Mary Augusta Ward - Fenwick's Career
H. G. Wells - In the Days of the Comet
Owen Wister - Lady Baltimore

New drama

John Galsworthy - The Silver Box
Harley Granville-Barker - Waste
George Barr McCutcheon - Brewster's Millions (adaptation)
Emma Orczy - The Sin of William Jackson

Non-fiction

Hall Caine - My Story

Births

January 22 - Robert E. Howard, American fantasy author (d. 1936)
January 23 - Anya Seton, American romantic author (d. 1990)
February 8 - Henry Roth, novelist and short story writer (d. 1995)
February 15 - Musa Calil, poet (d. 1944)
March 25 - A.J.P. Taylor, historian (d. 1990)
April 13 - Samuel Beckett, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature (d. 1989)
June 20 - Catherine Cookson, best-selling novelist (d. 1998)
July 18 - Clifford Odets, dramatist (d. 1963)
August 30 - Elizabeth Longford, biographer (d. 2002)
September 25 - Franklin Garrett, historian of Atlanta (d. 2000)
October 10 - R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
October 16 - Dino Buzzati, Italian author (d. 1972)
October 14 - Hannah Arendt, German/US intellectual (d. 1975)
November 30 - John Dickson Carr, American detective fiction author (d. 1977)