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1912

• Stephen Leacock publishes Sunshine Sketches in a Little Town
• Founded by Harriet Monroe in Chicago, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse begins publication; notable early contributors include T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, and Vachel Lindsay
• Zane Grey publishes Riders of the Purple Sage
• Ezra Pound publishes Ripostes
• E. Pauline Johnson publishes Flint and Feather
• Gerhart Hauptmann receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
• R.M.S. Titanic sinks on her maiden voyage
• War is waged in the Balkans between Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Albania
• Hilaire Belloc publishes The Servile State and The Four Men: A Farrago
• William Hope Hodgson publishes The Night Land: A Love Tale
• Vorticism, founded by Wyndham Lewis, flourishes as a movement encompassing both the visual and literary arts
• Founding of the Authors League of America; designed to protect the legal interests of writers and their works
• May Sarton is born (May 3)
• Jorge Amado is born (August 10)
• Mary Lavin is born (June 11)
• Ronald Frederick Delderfield is born (February 12)
• Irving Layton is born (March 12)
• Takuboku Ishikawa dies (April 13)
• August Strindberg dies (May 14)
• Tillie Olsen is born (January 14)
• William Sansom is born (January 18)
• Bram Stoker dies (April 20)
• Robert Lewis Taylor is born (September 24)
• Eugene Ionesco is born (November 26)
• John Cheever is born (May 27)
• Lawrence Durrell is born (February 27)
• In a signal episode in his life, Sherwood Anderson suffers a nervous collapse and abruptly walks out of his business in Elryia, Ohio; after this event he began writing fiction in earnest (November 28)
• Patrick White is born (May 28)
• Gordon Parks is born (November 30)
• Barbara W. Tuchman is born (January 30)