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The year 1916 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

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Events

  • The Journal of Negro History is founded by Carter Godwin Woodson, the father of "Black History" and "Negro History Week."
  • During the summer, 15-year-old Margaret Mitchell writes the manuscript to a novella called Lost Laysen in two notebooks. She would later give the manuscript to a boyfriend and the book would remain lost until it was rediscovered in the mid-1990s and finally published in 1996. Meanwhile, Mitchell would go on to write Gone with the Wind.

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