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The year 1915 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Non-fiction 5 Poetry 6 Awards 7 Births 8 Deaths

Events

• May 3 - In Flanders Fields is written by Canadian poet John McCrae.
• The poem "Into Battle" is published in The Times a few weeks before its author, Julian Grenfell, is killed in battle.
• Russian poet Sergei Yesenin (1895–1925), published his first book of poems titled "Radumitsa."

New books

• Mariano Azuela - Los de abajo
• L. Frank Baum - The Scarecrow of Oz
  • - Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross (as "Edith Van Dyne")
• John Buchan - The Thirty-nine Steps
• Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Return of Tarzan
• Willa Cather - The Song of the Lark
• Arthur Conan Doyle - The Valley of Fear
• Theodore Dreiser - The Genius
• Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Herland
• Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis
• D. H. Lawrence - The Rainbow
• Jack London - The Little Lady of the Big House
• W. Somerset Maugham - Of Human Bondage
• Oscar Micheaux - The Forged Note
• Baroness Orczy - A Bride of the Plains
  • - The Bronze Eagle
• Eleanor H. Porter - Pollyanna Grows Up
• Sax Rohmer - The Yellow Claw
• Rafael Sabatini - The Sea Hawk
• Ruth Sawyer - The Primrose Ring
• Russell Thorndike - Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh
• P. G. Wodehouse - Something Fresh
• Virginia Woolf - The Voyage Out

New drama

• Susan Glaspell - Suppressed Desires

Non-fiction

• Hall Caine — The Drama of 365 Days: Scenes in the Great War

Poetry

• T. S. Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
• Geoffrey Faber - Interflow, Poems Mainly Lyrical
• Francis Ledwidge - Songs of the Fields

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Romain Rolland (French)

Births

• March 18 - Richard Condon, novelist (d. 1996)
• June 10 - Saul Bellow, writer (d. 2005)
• July 1 - Alun Lewis, war poet (d. 1944)
• July 7 - Margaret Walker, poet and novelist (d. 1998)
• July 14 - Jerome Lawrence, dramatist (d. 2004)
• July 31 - Herbert Aptheker, historian (d. 2003)
• August 19 - Ring Lardner Jr., journalist and scriptwriter, one of the "Hollywood Ten" (d. 2000)
• November 8 - G. S. Fraser, poet and critic (d. 1980)
• December 22 - David Martin, poet (d. 1997)
• December 27 - John Cornford, poet (d. 1936)

Deaths

• January 3 - James Elroy Flecker, poet, novelist and dramatist (b. 1884)
• February 4 - Mary Elizabeth Braddon, novelist (b. 1837)
• April 8 - Louis Pergaud, French novelist (b. 1882)
• April 23 - Rupert Brooke, war poet (b. 1887)
• May 26 - Julian Grenfell, war poet (b. 1888)
• November 14 - Booker T. Washington, writer and educator (b. 1856)

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