1915 in literature

none 1915 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary persons, events and publications of 1915. Events thumb|"Honour has come back, as a king, to earth," illustration of "The Dead" by Harry Clarke in The Year's at the Spring, 1920. January 13 – "Reminiscences of Sergeant Michael Cassidy", the first known story by Captain H. C. McNeile, Royal Engineers, writing as "Sapper", begins in the Daily Mail (London).p. 4. Jaillant Lise Sapper, Hodder & Stoughton, and the Popular Literature of the Great War Book History 2011 14 Johns Hopkins University Press 1098-7371 140 March – Ford Madox Ford's novel The Good Soldier: A tale of passion is published by John Lane – The Bodley Head in London under this title, and under the author's original name, Ford Madox Hueffer, although he had intended it to be called The Saddest Story.Ford Madox Ford The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion Broadview Press 2003 15 March 26 – Virginia Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out, is published in London by the firm of her half-brother, Gerald Duckworth. March 26 – The Geração de Orpheu launch the short-lived magazine Orpheu, introducing literary modernism to Portugal.http://purl.pt/12089/2/ pt Orpheu António Ferro António Ferro Lisboa January–March 1915 Orpheu, Lda. 1–2 April 6 – The American Ezra Pound's poetry collection Cathay, "translations... for the most part of the Chinese of Rihaku, from the notes of the late Ernest Fenollosa, and the decipherings of the Professors Mori and Ariga", is published in London by Elkin Mathews.Moody David A. 2007 Ezra Pound, Poet: A Portrait of the Man and His Work, Volume I, The Young Genius 1885–1920 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-957146-8 266 April 23 – English poet and writer Rupert Brooke, having sailed on February 28 with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force for the Gallipoli campaign, dies age 27 on a hospital ship of streptococcal sepsis from an infected mosquito bite off the Greek island of Skyroshttp://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/dol/popups/rndofficer1.htm Royal Naval Division service record (extract) The National Archives 2007-11-11 in the Aegean Sea, where he is buried this evening with fellow poet Patrick Shaw-Stewart in charge of the firing party. Brooke came to public attention as a war poet on March 11 when The Times Literary Supplement published two sonnets ("IV: The Dead" and "V: The Soldier"); the latter was then read from the pulpit of St Paul's Cathedral on Easter Sunday (April 4). His collection of poetry, containing all five sonnets, 1914 & Other Poems, is first published posthumously in May and runs to 11 further impressions this year alone. April 24 – Deportation of Armenian notables from Constantinople begins. Among the writers, poets, teachers and literary critics killed are Dikran Chökürian, Armen Dorian, Melkon Giurdjian, Ardashes Harutiunian, Jacques Sayabalian, Ruben Sevak, Siamanto, and Rupen Zartarian. (Survivors include Yervant Odian and Alexander Panossian.) May 3 – The rondeau "In Flanders Fields" by the Canadian poet John McCrae is written; it is first published on December 8 in the London magazine Punch.Gillmor Don 2001 Canada: A People's History 2 McClelland & Stewart Toronto, Ontario 0-7710-3341-9 93 https://archive.org/details/canadapeopleshis0000gill/page/93 May 7 – The sinking of the RMS Lusitania claims 1,198 victims. The Americans among them in this torpedo attack on a civilian passenger liner include the writer and playwright Justus Miles Forman (born 1875), the theatrical producer Charles Frohman (born 1856), the writer and philosopher Elbert Hubbard (born 1856) and his second wife Alice Moore Hubbard (born 1861), and the playwright Charles Klein (born 1867). The survivors include the British-born writer and educator Ian Holbourn and the bookseller Charles E. Lauriat, Jr. May 13 – As Julian Grenfell stands talking with other officers, a shell lands some yards away and a splinter hits him in the head. He is taken to a hospital in Boulogne, where he dies 13 days later. His poem "Into Battle" is published in The Times (London) the following day.Nicholas Mosley Mosley Nicholas 1976 Julian Grenfell: His Life and the Times of his Death 1888–1915 London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 0297770934 His younger brother Gerald William (Billy) Grenfell is killed in action two months later. c. May – Publication of the first modern book illustrated with wood engravings, Frances Cornford's Spring Morning, from the Poetry Bookshop, London, with engravings by her cousin Gwen Raverat.Balston Thomas Wood-engraving in Modern English Books London National Book League 1949 June 24 – The Widener Library at Harvard University is dedicated. June 26 – August 14 – P. G. Wodehouse's novel Something Fresh is serialized in The Saturday Evening Post (U.S.), introducing the character of Lord Emsworth of Blandings Castle. It first appears in book form on September 3 in New York, from D. Appleton & Company, and on September 16 in London, from Methuen.McIlvaine, Eileen Sherby, Louise S. Heineman, James H. 1990 P. G. Wodehouse: A comprehensive bibliography and checklist New York James H. Heineman 27–28 0-87008125-X August/September – John Buchan's thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps, set just before the outbreak of war and introducing as hero Richard Hannay, is serialised in Blackwood's Magazine. Book publication follows in October by William Blackwood and Sons in Edinburgh. August–December – Ezra Pound completes the early sections of his poem The Cantos.BK. Ezra Pound and the Invention of Japan http://themargins.net/bib/B/BK/00bkintro.html#firstcantorefs Japonisme, Orientalism, Mysticism 2015-01-13 September 15 P. G. Wodehouse's story "Extricating Young Gussie" is published in The Saturday Evening Post (U.S.). It introduces as characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster. New Culture Movement: Chen Duxiu establishes the New Youth magazine in Shanghai, China.Ash Alec 6 September 2009 China's New New Youth https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/chinabeatarchive/626/ live https://web.archive.org/web/20200612103436/https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/chinabeatarchive/626/ 12 June 2020 17 July 2020 DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln September 30 – Methuen, publishers of D. H. Lawrence's new novel The Rainbow, are prosecuted in London under the Obscene Publications Act 1857 and its sale is banned. The U.S. edition appears in November without any legal challenge.Cambridge University Library D.H. Lawrence 1885-1930: Catalogue of an Exhibition at Cambridge University Library, September-November 1985 https://books.google.com/books?id=l7kcAAAAMAAJ 1985 Cambridge University Library 978-0-902205-47-5 7 October – Franz Kafka's seminal novella The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung) is first published in Die Weißen Blätter (Leipzig).Jg. 2 pp. 1177–1230. Kafka finishes writing The Trial (Der Process) this year, but it will not be published until 1925, the year after his death. October 15 – Detective Story Magazine is first published by Street & Smith of New York, a successor to Nick Carter Stories. October 27 – Leonid Andreyev's play He Who Gets Slapped premieres at the Moscow Art Theatrehttps://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.3366/j.ctt1bh2kpq.12.pdf A Slap in the Face of American Taste: Transporting He Who Gets Slapped to American Audiences Border Crossing: Russian Literature into Film Alexander Burry and Frederick H. White Frederick H. White Edinburgh University Press 2016 140–164 10.3366/j.ctt1bh2kpq.12 9781474411424 November – The German author Heinrich Mann's essay on Émile Zola in Die Weißen Blätter marks Zola's political commitment and attacks the economic causes of the war. This temporarily disrupts Mann's relations with his younger brother, the novelist Thomas Mann.http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hmann.htm Heinrich Mann Books and Writers Petri Liukkonen Kuusankoski Public Library Finland https://web.archive.org/web/20130904060528/http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hmann.htm 4 September 2013 dead unknown dates James Joyce, Tristan Tzara and Vladimir Lenin all take up residence in Zurich, in a coincidence to be exploited in Tom Stoppard's 1974 play Travesties. Alfred A. Knopf, Sr. establishes the publishers Alfred A. Knopf in New York City.Gale Group Business Leader Profiles for Students https://books.google.com/books?id=87CKHwNGj_4C December 1998 Gale 978-0-7876-2935-9 81 The Goudy Old Style serif typeface is created by Frederic Goudy for American Type Founders.American Printer and Lithographer https://books.google.com/books?id=gAAhAQAAMAAJ 1948 Moore Publishing Company 19–20 New books Fiction Ryūnosuke Akutagawa – "Rashōmon" (羅生門, short story published in Teikoku Bungaku) Victor Appleton – Tom Swift and His Aerial WarshipR. Reginald Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, Vol 1. Wildside Press, LLC 2010 9780941028752 754 Ruby M. Ayres – Richard Chatterton, V.C. Mariano Azuela – The Underdogs (Los de abajo) E. F. Benson – The Oakleyites John Buchan – The Thirty-nine Steps Willa Cather – The Song of the Lark Joseph Conrad – Victory Arthur Conan Doyle – The Valley of Fear Theodore Dreiser – The "Genius" Caradoc Evans – My People: Stories of the Peasantry of West Wales Edna Ferber – Emma Mc Chesney and Co. Ronald Firbank – Vainglory Ford Madox Hueffer – The Good Soldier Charlotte Perkins Gilman – Herland Anna Katharine Green – The Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange Hermann Hesse – Knulp Franz Kafka – The Metamorphosis D. H. Lawrence – The Rainbow Jack London – The Little Lady of the Big House Marie Belloc Lowndes – Good Old Anna Arthur Machen The Bowmen; and Other Legends of the War The Great Return Compton Mackenzie – Guy and Pauline W. Somerset Maugham – Of Human Bondage Oscar Micheaux – The Forged Note: A Romance Of The Darker Races Mori Ōgai (森 鷗外) – Sansho the Steward (山椒大夫, Sanshō Dayū) John Muir Travels to Alaska Letters to A Friend Natsume Sōseki (夏目 漱石) – Grass on the Wayside (道草, Michikusa) E. Phillips Oppenheim The Game of Liberty Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo Baroness Orczy A Bride of the Plains The Bronze Eagle P. D. Ouspensky – Strange Life of Ivan Osokin (Странная жизнь Ивана Осокина) Eleanor H. Porter – Pollyanna Grows Up Dorothy Richardson – Pointed Roofs Sax Rohmer – The Yellow Claw Rafael Sabatini – The Sea HawkJames Robert Parish Pirates and Seafaring Swashbucklers on the Hollywood Screen: Plots, Critiques, Casts and Credits for 137 Theatrical and Made-for-television Releases https://books.google.com/books?id=LvEKAQAAMAAJ 1995 McFarland 978-0-89950-935-8 6 Ruth Sawyer – The Primrose Ring Edgar Wallace The Man Who Bought London The Melody of Death Jean Webster – Dear Enemy H. G. Wells – Boon Luang Wilatpariwat – Khwam mai phayabat (No Vendetta; first full-length Thai novel, adapted from English) Harry Leon Wilson – Ruggles of Red GapThe Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film Bowker-Saur 2011 9783110951943 936 P. G. Wodehouse Something Fresh Psmith, Journalist Virginia Woolf – The Voyage Out Children and young people Gerdt von Bassewitz – Peter and Anneli's Journey to the Moon (Peterchens Mondfahrt) L. Frank Baum The Scarecrow of Oz Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross (as Edith Van Dyne) Waldemar Bonsels – Himmelsvolk (Heaven Folk) Edgar Rice Burroughs – The Return of Tarzan Russell Thorndike – Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh Else Ury Nesthäkchen's First School YearJennifer Redmann. Nostalgia and Optimism in Else Ury's "Nesthäkchen" Books for Young Girls in the Weimar Republic. The German Quarterly, Vol. 79, No. 4 (Fall, 2006), pp. 465-483 Nesthäkchen in the Children's Sanitorium Drama Leonid Andreyev – He Who Gets Slapped Susan Glaspell – Suppressed Desires Maxim Gorky – The Old Man Avery Hopwood Fair and Warmer Sadie Love Agha Hashar Kashmiri – Bilwamangal Cleves Kinkead – Common Clay Louis N. Parker – Mavourneen Patrick Pearse – The Singer (written) Quintero brothers Becquerina Diana cazadora Caton Theodorian – Bujoreștii Horace Annesley Vachell – The Case of Lady Camber Poetry 1915 in poetry C. J. Dennis – The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke (verse novel) John Drinkwater – Swords and Ploughshares T. S. Eliot – The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockRichard Aldington Norman T. Gates Richard Aldington: An Autobiography in Letters https://books.google.com/books?id=u4j46Y1A3LYC&pg=PA251 1992 Penn State Press 0-271-00832-6 251 H. B. Elliott, ed. – Lest We Forget: A War AnthologyNosheen Khan Women's Poetry of the First World War https://books.google.com/books?id=T8uv1m5fPTwC&pg=PA205 1 January 1988 University Press of Kentucky 0-8131-1677-5 205 Geoffrey Faber – Interflow, Poems Mainly Lyrical Rudyard Kipling – "My Boy Jack" Francis Ledwidge – Songs of the Fields Vladimir Mayakovsky – A Cloud in Trousers Alice Meynell – Poems of the War Barbu Nemțeanu – Stropi de soare Fernando Pessoa – Opiário and Ode Marítima Jessie Pope – Jessie Pope's War Poems and More War Poems Non-fiction John Hay Beith – The First Hundred Thousand John Buchan – Nelson's History of the War (begun) Hall Caine – The Drama of 365 Days: Scenes in the Great War Maxim Gorky – In the World (В людях) Rudyard Kipling – The Fringes of the Fleet (essays and poems) Hugo Krabbe – Die moderne staatsidee Friedrich Naumann – Mitteleuropa May Sinclair – A Journal of Impressions in Belgium Percy Sykes – A History of Persiahttp://www.wdl.org/en/item/7307/ A History of Persia World Digital Library 1921 2013-10-01 2021-03-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20210320113735/http://www.wdl.org/en/item/7307/ dead Zhonghua Da Zidian (中華大字典) (Great Chinese Dictionary) Births January 1 – Branko Ćopić, Bosnian Serb writer (suicide 1984)Layman Gale Cengage South Slavic Writers Since World War II https://books.google.com/books?id=T80UAQAAIAAJ 1997 Gale Research 978-0-7876-1070-8 42 January 6 – Alan Watts, British/American philosopher (died 1973)Alan Watts John Snelling The Early Writings of Alan Watts: The British Years, 1931-1938 : Writings in Buddhism in England https://books.google.com/books?id=bAYHAAAAYAAJ 1987 Celestial Arts 978-0-89087-480-6 2 January 28 – Nien Cheng, Chinese-born American writer (died 2009)https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/nov/10/nien-cheng-obituary Nien Cheng obituary November 10, 2009 Kerry Brown Guardian July 24, 2021 February 2 – Khushwant Singh, Indian novelist and journalist (died 2014)James Vinson D. L. Kirkpatrick Novelists and Prose Writers https://books.google.com/books?id=1oEjAQAAIAAJ 1979 Macmillan 978-0-333-25292-5 1116 February 11 – Patrick Leigh Fermor, British author (died 2011)Caribbean Review https://books.google.com/books?id=uGAYAQAAIAAJ 1983 Caribbean Review, Incorporated March 8 – Drue Heinz, born Doreen English, British-American publisher and patron of arts (died 2018) March 13 – Protiva Bose (Ranu Shome), Bengali singer and writer (died 2006)January 2025 March 18 – Richard Condon, American novelist (died 1996) March 26 – Hwang Sun-won, Korean fiction writer (died 2000)Flowers of Fire: Twentieth-century Korean Stories University of Hawaii Press 1986 9780824810368 86 April 12 – Július Tomin, Czech writer known for promoting Interlingua (died 2003)https://www.interlingua.com/historia/biographias/tomin.htm Július Tomin Historia de Interlingua it 29 March 2026 April 15 – Hilda Bernstein, English-born author, artist, and anti-apartheid activist (died 2006)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/hilda-bernstein-416691.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/hilda-bernstein-416691.html 2022-05-01 subscription live Hilda Bernstein September 22, 2011 The Independent July 25, 2021 April 24 – Salvador Borrego, Mexican journalist, historical revisionist and neo-Nazi writer (d. 2018) May 5 – Emanuel Litvinoff, Anglo-Jewish writer (died 2011)https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/sep/26/emanuel-litvinoff Emanuel Litvinoff obituary September 26, 2011 Judith Burnley Guardian July 24, 2021 May 8 – Milton Meltzer, American historian and author (died 2009)https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/books/25meltzer.html Milton Meltzer, Author of Nonfiction Books for the Young, Dies at 94 Hevesi Dennis 2009-09-24 The New York Times 2019-11-09 en-US 0362-4331 May 10 – Monica Dickens, English novelist (died 1992)Charles Pick https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-monica-dickens-1566170.html Obituary: Monica Dickens The Independent 31 December 1992 May 12 – Joe David Brown, American novelist and journalist (died 1976) May 27 – Herman Wouk, American novelist (died 2019)Heinz-Dietrich Fischer Novel / Fiction Awards, 1917-1994 https://books.google.com/books?id=2P_rAAAAMAAJ 1996 Saur 978-3-598-30180-3 135 June 10 Saul Bellow, American writer (died 2005)The Georgia Review https://books.google.com/books?id=aPG2FkH1z7wC 1995 University of Georgia 76 Peride Celal, Turkish author (died 2013) June 21 – Jesús Arango Cano, Colombian economist, diplomat, anthropologist, archaeologist and writer (died 2015) June 22 – Thomas Quinn Curtiss, American writer, and film and theatre critic (died 2000) July 1 Alun Lewis, Welsh poet in English (died 1944)John Pikoulis Alun Lewis: A Life https://books.google.com/books?id=4xlbAAAAMAAJ 1991 Seren Books 978-1-85411-018-3 8 Jean Stafford, American fiction writer (died 1979) July 7 – Margaret Walker, American poet and novelist (died 1998)William L. Andrews Frances Smith Foster Trudier Harris The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=-9XtCY7cijMC&pg=PA417 15 February 2001 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-803175-8 417 July 14 – Jerome Lawrence, American dramatist (died 2004) July 31 – Herbert Aptheker, American historian (died 2003) August 13 – Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo, Pakistani teacher, writer, scholar, and Sindhi nationalist (died 2017)http://tribune.com.pk/story/748397/the-literati-genius-sindh-celebrates-100-years-of-ibrahim-joyo/ The literati genius: Sindh celebrates 100 years of Ibrahim Joyo - The Express Tribune 14 August 2014 August 19 – Ring Lardner, Jr., American journalist and screenwriter (died 2000)Clifford M. Caruthers Letters of Ring Lardner https://books.google.com/books?id=O1UtMB50GD0C&pg=PA108 1995 Orchises Press 978-0-914061-52-6 108 August 28 – Claude Roy, French poet (died 1997) August 30 – Jack Simmons, English historian (died 2000) September 8 – Benoît Lacroix, Canadian theologian and philosopher (died 2016)John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Reports of the President and of the Treasurer https://books.google.com/books?id=M4_WAAAAMAAJ 1959 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 124 September 17 – Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez, Spanish-born philosopher (2011)Stefan Gandler Critical Marxism in Mexico: Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolívar Echeverría https://books.google.com/books?id=jPhyBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA16 1 September 2015 BRILL 978-90-04-28468-5 16 September 21 – Gertrude Poe, American journalist (died 2017)https://www.baltimoresun.com/2017/07/14/gertrude-poe-101-edited-laurel-leader-for-41-years/ Gertrude Poe, 101, edited Laurel Leader for 41 years Laurel Leader Baltimore Sun Media Group July 14, 2017 July 15, 2017 Melanie Dzwonchyk July 19, 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170719135502/http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/howard/laurel/ph-ll-obit-gertrude-poe-0720-20170714-story.html live September 27 – Marjorie Chibnall, English medievalist, biographer and translator (died 2012)Ann Evory Contemporary Authors https://books.google.com/books?id=phIQbS5U-TkC April 1978 Gale / Cengage Learning 978-0-8103-0035-4 120 October 17 – Arthur Miller, American dramatist (died 2005)Neil Carson Arthur Miller https://books.google.com/books?id=hPMcBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA2 25 April 2008 Macmillan International Higher Education 978-1-137-02141-0 2February 2024 InternetArchiveBot yes October 24 – Marghanita Laski, English biographer, novelist and broadcaster (died 1988) November 8 – G. S. Fraser, Scottish poet and critic (died 1980) November 12 – Roland Barthes, French literary theorist (died 1980)Graham Allen Roland Barthes https://books.google.com/books?id=ID9cBdFvydUC&pg=PA1 2 June 2004 Routledge 978-1-134-50340-7 1 November 16 – Jean Fritz, American children's writer (died 2017)https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/books/jean-fritz-dead-childrens-book-author.html Jean Fritz, Who Wrote History Books for Children, Dies at 101 Fox Margalit May 17, 2017 The New York Times May 18, 2017 0362-4331 November 26 – Emilio D'Amore, Italian writer, journalist, and politician (died 2017)E' morto a 102 anni Emilio D'Amore, volto storico della destra irpina http://www.irpinianews.it/e-morto-a-102-anni-emilio-damore-volto-storico-della-destra-irpina/ 21 October 2017 Irpinia News 21 October 2017 it December 6 – Nilawan Pintong, Thai writer (died 2017)http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/1194661/star-literateur-khun-nilawan-passes-away-at-101 Star literateur Khun Nilawan passes away at 101 8 February 2017 Bangkok Post 2017-02-08 December 13 – Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian writer (died 1983) December 22 – David Martin, Hungarian-born Australian poet (died 1997) December 27 – John Cornford, English poet (died 1936) Deaths January 3 – James Elroy Flecker, English poet, novelist and dramatist (tuberculosis, born 1884)Mary D. Davis Mary Byrd Davis James Elroy Flecker: A Critical Study https://books.google.com/books?id=fb5aAAAAMAAJ 1977 Inst. f. Engl. Sprache u. Literatur 198 January 19 – Elizabeth Boynton Harbert, American author, lecturer, reformer (born 1843) February 4 – Mary Elizabeth Braddon, English popular novelist (born 1837) April 8 – Louis Pergaud, French novelist (killed in action, born 1882) April 19 – Julia Evelyn Ditto Young, American poet and novelist (born 1857)Julia Ditto Young http://buffaloah.com/a/forestL/young/ buffaloah.com 4 January 2018 April 23 – Rupert Brooke, English war poet (blood poisoning, born 1887) May 7 (passengers drowned in the sinking of the Lusitania) Justus Miles Forman, American writer (born 1875)https://www.newspapers.com/clip/65522025/vanderbilt-lost-frohman-also-fear-of/ Vanderbilt Lost, Frohman Also, Fear of Friends Brooklyn Eagle 1 1915-05-08 2020-12-18 Newspapers.com Charles Frohman, American theater producer (born 1856) Elbert Hubbard, American writer and philosopher (born 1856)Mixed Claims Commission, United States and Germany First Report of Robert W. Bonynge, Agent of the United States Before the Mixed Claims Commission, United States and Germany: Established Under the Agreement of August 10, 1922, Between the United States and Germany https://books.google.com/books?id=8MKiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA176 1925 U.S. Government Printing Office 176 Alice Moore Hubbard, American wife of Elbert Hubbard (born 1861) Charles Klein, American playwright (born 1867)"Mr. Charles Klein", The Lusitania Resource, accessed June 9, 2019 May 11 – Lucy Bethia Walford, Scottish-born novelist and artist (born 1845) May 26 – Julian Grenfell, English war poet (killed in action, born 1888)Nicholas Mosley Julian Grenfell, His Life and the Times of His Death, 1888-1915 https://books.google.com/books?id=N1AwAAAAIAAJ 1976 Holt, Rinehart and Winston 978-0-03-017596-1 265 June 4 – George Calderon, English dramatist and translator (killed in action on Gallipoli campaign, born 1868) July 5 – Aurelio Tolentino, Filipino dramatist (born 1867) August 19 – Tevfik Fikret, Ottoman Turkish poet and journalist (diabetes, born 1867). September 1 – August Stramm, German Expressionist poet and playwright (killed in action, born 1874) September 27 – Remy de Gourmont, French Symbolist poet, novelist, and critic (stroke, born 1858) October 17 – Edmond Laforest, Haitian French-language poet (suicide, born 1876)Donald E. Herdeck Maurice Alcibiade Lubin Margaret Herdeck Caribbean Writers: A Bio-bibliographical-critical Encyclopedia https://books.google.com/books?id=I4gYAAAAIAAJ 1979 Three Continents Press 978-0-914478-74-4 413 November 14 – Booker T. Washington, American writer and educator (born 1856)Robert A. Hill Marcus Garvey Universal Negro Improvement Association The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. I: 1826-August 1919 https://books.google.com/books?id=CKJrUKdSZwkC&pg=PA166 4 November 1983 University of California Press 978-0-520-04456-2 166 December 23 – Roland Leighton, English war poet (died of wounds, born 1895)Helen McPhail Philip Guest Wilfred Owen: On the Trail of the Poets of the Great War https://books.google.com/books?id=AuWXAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT47 12 August 1998 Pen and Sword 978-1-4738-2078-4 47 Awards Nobel Prize for Literature: Romain Rolland (French) References 30em See also World War I in literature External links Popular Books of 1915 at Goodreads Published 1915 Books at Goodreads 1915 Books at Goodreads