Calendar of Literary Facts
1911
- Edith Wharton publishes Ethan Frome
- Maurice Maeterlinck receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Ambrose Bierce publishes The Devil’s Dictionary
- Max Beerbohm publishes Zuleika Dobson
- Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole
- The Manchu Dynasty is overthrown in China, in the Revolution of 1911; the Republic of China is founded, with Sun Yat-sen as provisional president
- J. E. Casely-Hayford publishes Ethiopia Unbound
- G. K. Chesterton publishes The Innocence of Father Brown
- Odysseus Alepoudhelis (Odysseus Elytis) is born (November 2)
- Elizabeth Bishop is born (February 8)
- Terence Rattigan is born (June 10)
- Audrey Wurdemann is born (January 11)
- Josephine Miles is born (June 11)
- Naguib Mahfouz is born (December 12)
- Kenneth Patchen is born (December 13)
- L. Ron Hubbard is born (March 13)
- Max Frisch is born (May 15)
- E. F. Schumacher is born (August 16)
- Jose Maria Arguedas is born (July 18)
- William Golding is born (September 19)
- William Attaway is born (November 19)
- Hortense Calisher is born (December 20)
- Marshall McLuhan is born (July 21)
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper dies (February 22)
- Bienvenido N. Santos is born (March 22)
- Ernesto Sábato is born (June 24)
- Fritz Hochwaelder is born (May 28)
- W. S. Gilbert dies (May 29)
- Czesław Miłosz is born (June 30)
