1899 in literature
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See also: 1898 in literature, other events of 1899, 1900 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- Edgar Rice Burroughs begins working in his father's business.
- Rainer Maria Rilke travels to Moscow to meet Leo Tolstoy.
- Arthur Machen's wife Amy dies after a long illness, an event that has a devastating effect on him.
- The Irish Literary Theatre is founded by W. B. Yeats, Augusta, Lady Gregory, George Moore and Edward Martyn
[edit] New books
- Machado de Assis - Dom Casmurro
- René Bazin - La terre qui meurt
- René Boylesve - Demoiselle Cloque
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon - His Darling Sin
- Rhoda Broughton
- Foes in law
- The Game and the Candle
- Charles Waddell Chesnutt - The Conjure Woman
- Mary Cholmondeley - Red Pottage
- Kate Chopin - The Awakening
- Ralph Connor - The Sky Pilot
- Margaret Deland - Old Chester Tales
- Arthur Conan Doyle - The Man with the Twisted Lip
- Géza Gárdonyi - Egri Csillagok
- Maxim Gorky - Foma Gordyeeff
- G. A. Henty - The Golden Canon
- Elbert Hubbard - A Message to Garcia
- Arthur Morrison - To London Town
- Frank Norris
- Blix
- McTeague
- Leo Tolstoy - Resurrection
- Émile Zola - Fécondité
[edit] New drama
- Anton Chekov - Uncle Vanya
- Leon Kobrin - Minna or, The Ruined Family from Downtown
[edit] Poetry
- Stéphane Mallarmé - Poésies (posthumously published)
[edit] Non-fiction
- Percy Dearmer - The Parson's Handbook
- John Dewey - The School and Society
[edit] Births
- January 17 - Nevil Shute, novelist
- February 23 - Erich Kästner, children's author
- March 25 - Jacques Audiberti (d. 1965)
- April 22 - Vladimir Nabokov, novelist (d. 1977)
- May 8 - Friedrich Hayek, social scientist
- July 21
- Ernest Hemingway, novelist (d. 1961)
- Hart Crane, poet (d. 1932)
- August 9 - P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins author
- August 24 - Jorge Luis Borges (d. 1986)
- August 27 - C. S. Forester, adventure novelist (d. 1966)
- November 10 - Kate Seredy, children's author
- December 16 - Noel Coward, playwright (d. 1973)
- December 18 - Peter Wessel Zapffe, philosopher (d. 1990)
[edit] Deaths
- February 10 - Archibald Lampman, poet
- March 16 - Alexander Balloch Grosart, literary editor
- May 1 - Ludwig Büchner, philosopher
- May 16 - Francisque Sarcey, journalist and theatre critic
- June 7 - Augustin Daly, dramatist and theatre manager
- June 30 - E. D. E. N. Southworth, novelist
- July 18 - Horatio Alger, Jr.
- August 29 - Catharine Parr Traill, English-born author of "Canadiana"
- October 25 - Grant Allen, author
- November 13 - Arthur Giry, historian
- December 22 - Dwight L. Moody, preacher and publisher
- date unknown
- Anna Swanwick, feminist writer
