See also: 1905 in literature, other events of 1906, 1907 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• December 24 - Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio program, a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech, broadcasts

New books

• Amitabha - Paul Carus
• Beneath the Wheel - Hermann Hesse
• Beyond the Rocks - Elinor Glyn
• Botchan - Natsume Sōseki
• The Education of Henry Adams - Henry Adams
• Fenwick's Career - Mary Augusta Ward
• The Four Million - O. Henry
• The House of Souls - Arthur Machen
• In the Days of the Comet - H. G. Wells
• Josefine Mutzenbacher
• Joseph Vance - William de Morgan
• The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
• King Paradox - Pio Baroja
• Lady Baltimore - Owen Wister
• The Man of Property - John Galsworthy
• Men At War - Frank Thiess
• The Man Who Was Thursday - G. K. Chesterton
• The Mirror of the Sea - Joseph Conrad
• My Dead Life - George Moore (novelist)
• A Night in the Luxembourg - Remy de Gourmont
• Prisoners - Mary Cholmondeley
• The Railway Children - Edith Nesbit
• Romance Island - Zona Gale
• The Spoilers - Rex Beach
• The Story of the Amulet - Edith Nesbit
• What Is Man? - Mark Twain
• The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgerson - Selma Lagerlöf

New drama

• John Galsworthy - The Silver Box
• Harley Granville-Barker - Waste
• George Barr McCutcheon - Brewster's Millions, theatrical adaptation

Births

• January 22 - Robert E. Howard, American fantasy author (d. 1936)
• January 23 - Anya Seton, American romantic author (d. 1990)
• February 15 - Musa Calil, poet
• March 25 - A.J.P. Taylor, historian
• April 13 - Samuel Beckett, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1969
• June 20 - Catherine Cookson, best-selling novelist
• July 18 - Clifford Odets, dramatist
• August 30 - Elizabeth Longford, biographer
• September 25 - Franklin Garrett, historian of Alabama
• October 10 - R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
• October 14 - Hannah Arendt, German/US intellectual

Deaths

• February 9 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet
• March 2 - Ellen Mary Clerke, novelist
• April 6 - Alexander Kielland, novelist
• April 11 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher
• April 14 - Nora Chesson, poet
• May 23 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright
• June 29 - Albert Sorel, historian
• June 30 - Jean Lorrain, Symbolist poet
• December 6 - Anne Ross Cousin, poet

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Giosuè Carducci

1906 books

Literaturjahr 1906 | 1906 en littérature | 1906 - literatura | Litteraturåret 1906