See also: 1906 in literature, other events of 1907, 1908 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• June 26 - Mark Twain receives an honorary doctorate of laws degree from Oxford University.
• The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad is published.

New books

• Benoni — André Billy
• The City of Pleasure — Arnold Bennett
• Dead Love Has Chains — Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• The Hill of Dreams — Arthur Machen
• Kind Hearts and Coronets — Roy Horniman
• The Longest Journey — E. M. Forster
• Madame de Treymes — Edith Wharton
• My Lady Caprice — Jeffery Farnol
• Not George Washington — P. G. Wodehouse
• The Overman — Upton Sinclair
• The Secret Agent — Joseph Conrad
• The Seven Ages of Washington — Owen Wister
• The Shepherd of the Hills — Harold Bell Wright
• Songs of a Sourdough — (poetry) Robert W. Service
• The Tale of Tom Kitten — Beatrix Potter

Births

• February 1 - Günter Eich , lyricist (d. 1972)
• February 21 - W. H. Auden, English poet (d. 1973)
• May 13 - Daphne du Maurier, writer (d. 1989)
• July 7 - Robert Heinlein, author (d. 1988)
• August 28 - Rupert Hart-Davis, editor, publisher (d. 1999)
• September 23 - Pauline Réage, author (d. 1998)
• November 14 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author of children's books (d. 2002)
• November 27 - L. Sprague de Camp, American sci-fi and fantasy author (d. 2000)

Deaths

• May 12 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, author
• July 17 - Hector Malot, author
• September 6 - Sully Prudhomme, 1st Nobel Prize winner

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Rudyard Kipling