1908 in literature

See also: 1907 in literature, other events of 1908, 1909 in literature, list of years in literature.

Births

• January 9 - Simone de Beauvoir, feminist philosopher
• January 18 - Jacob Bronowski, scientist and poet
• February 8 - Emil Staiger, scientist of literature (d. 1987)
• February 11 - Sutan Takdir Alishahbana, Indonesian linguistic/author/novelist.
• February 29 - Dee Brown, novelist and historian
• March 6 - Dame Felicitas Corrigan, Benedictine author
• March 22 - Louis L'Amour, author
• May 17 - Frederic Prokosch, novelist and poet
• May 25 - Theodore Roethke, American poet
• May 28 - Ian Fleming, author
• August 21 - M. M. Kaye, Far Pavilions author
• September 4 - Richard Wright, author (d. 1960)
• October 5 - Joshua Logan, stage and film writer and director
• November 28 - Claude Lévi-Strauss