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The year 1909 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

New books

• L. Frank Baum — The Road to Oz
• André Billy — La Derive
• René Boylesve — La Jeune Fille bien élevée
• Hall Caine — The White Prophet
• Herbert Croly — The Promise of American Life
• Charles Hoy Fort — The Outcast Manufacturers
• Anatole France — Balthazar
• Jacques Futrelle — Elusive Isabel
• John Galsworthy — Fraternity
• Jack London — Martin Eden
• John Masefield — Multitude and Solitude
• Lucy Maud Montgomery — Anne of Avonlea
• Baroness Orczy
  • The Old Man In the Corner
  • The Nest of the Sparrowhawk
• Gertrude Stein — Three Lives
• Gene Stratton-Porter — A Girl of the Limberlost
• Hermann Sudermann — The Song of Songs
• Robert Walser — Jakob von Gunten
• Mary Augusta Ward — Daphne
• H.G. Wells
  • Ann Veronica
  • Tono-Bungay

New drama

• John Galsworthy — Strife
• George Bernard Shaw — The Shewing-up Of Blanco Posnet

Poetry

• Guillaume Apollinaire — L'Enchanteur Pourrissant
• François Mauriac — Les Mains Jointes (Clasped Hands)
• John Millington Synge — Poems and Translations

Non-fiction

• Henry James - Italian Hours
• William James - A Pluralistic Universe

Births

• January 29 - Phoebe Hesketh, British poet (d. 2005)
• February 24 - August Derleth, anthologist
• March 28 - Nelson Algren, novelist
• April 8 - John Fante, novelist
• May 9 - Robert Garioch, poet (d. 1981)
• June 6 - Sir Isaiah Berlin, philosopher
• June 28 - Eric Ambler, novelist
• July 1 – Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan writer (d. 1994)
• July 17 - G. P. Wells, son and co-author of H. G. Wells (d. 1985)
• July 28 - Malcolm Lowry, British novelist
• July 30 - C. Northcote Parkinson, British historian and author
• August 3 — Walter Van Tilburg Clark, novelist (The Ox-Bow Incident)
• Miep Gies, Anne Frank friend, biographer

Deaths

• January 14 - Arthur William à Beckett, journalist
• February 11 - Russell Sturgis, art critic
• March 24 - John Millington Synge, dramatist and poet
• March 27 (probable) - John Davidson, poet
• April 9 - Francis Marion Crawford, novelist
• April 12 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, British poet
• April 26 - Marcus Dods, theologian
• May 18 - George Meredith, novelist and poet
• June 11 - Jacob Gordin, dramatist
• July 8 - Albert Craig, "The Surrey Poet", cricket writer
• August 23 - Liu E, novelist
• October 24 - Henry Charles Lea, historian
• December 14 - Frederick Greenwood, journalist
• date unknown
  • H. L. Fischer, translator
  • Paschal Grousset, journalist and science fiction writer

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Selma Lagerlöf
• Newdigate prize: Frank Ashton-Gwatkin