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The year 1900 in literature involved some significant new books.

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Non-fiction 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Awards

[edit] Events

• Ermete Novelli establishes the Casa di Goldoni at Rome, in imitation of the Comédie Française.

[edit] New books

• L. Frank Baum
  • A New Wonderland
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon — The Infidel
• Colette — Claudine à l'école
• Joseph Conrad — Lord Jim
• Marie Corelli — The Master Christian
• Stephen Crane — Whilomville Stories
• Gabriele D'Annunzio — The Flame of Life (Italian: Il Fuoco)
• Theodore Dreiser — Sister Carrie
• Robert Grant — Unleavened Bread
• Jerome K. Jerome — Three Men on the Bummel
• Rudyard Kipling — Baa Baa, Black Sheep
• Octave Mirbeau — The Diary of a Chambermaid (French: Le Journal d'une femme de chambre)
• Bradford C. Peck - The World a Department Store
• Emilio Salgari — The Tigers of Mompracem (Italian: Le tigri di Mompracem)
• Henryk Sienkiewicz — The Teutonic Knights (Polish: Krzyżacy)
• Booth Tarkington — Monsieur Beaucaire
• Jules Verne
  • The Will of an Eccentric
  • The Castaways of the Flag
• Mary Augusta Ward — Eleanor
• H. G. Wells — Love and Mr Lewisham
• Mary E. Wilkins Freeman — The Heart's Highway

[edit] New drama

• Anton Chekhov - Uncle Vanya
• George Bernard Shaw - Captain Brassbound's Conversion
• August Strindberg - The Dance of Death and Easter

[edit] Poetry

• Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900 (edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch)
• G. K. Chesterton — The Wild Knight and Other Poems
• Ismail Hossain Shiraji — Anal Prabaha

[edit] Non-fiction

• Arthur Conan Doyle — The Great Boer War
• The Nuttall Encyclopaedia (edited by James Wood)
• Sigmund Freud — The Interpretation of Dreams

[edit] Births

• January 9 — Emmanuel D'Astier, journalist
• February 19 — Giorgos Seferis, poet
• February 22 — Sean O'Faolain, short story writer
• April 19 — Richard Hughes, novelist
• April 24 — Elizabeth Goudge, novelist and children's author
• May 1 — Ignazio Silone, novelist
• June 29 — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, novelist
• July 18 — Nathalie Sarraute, Russian born Francophone lawyer and writer (d. 1999)
• July 24 — Zelda Fitzgerald, wife and inspiration of F. Scott Fitzgerald
• September 7 — Taylor Caldwell, novelist
• September 9 — James Hilton, novelist
• October 16 — Edward Ardizzone, children's writer and illustrator
• November 8 — Margaret Mitchell (d. 1949), Gone with the Wind author.
• November 19 — Anna Seghers, novelist
• December 16 — V. S. Pritchett, short story writer

[edit] Deaths

• January 20 — Richard Doddridge Blackmore (b. 1825), English writer.
• January 29 — John Ruskin, critic
• January 31 — John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, nemesis of Oscar Wilde
• February 23 — Ernest Dowson, poet
• April 23 — Charles Isaac Elton, historian
• July 3 — Fernand Brouez, editor of La Société Nouvelle
• June 3 — Mary Kingsley, travel writer
• June 4 — Edwards Amasa Park, theologian
• June 5 — Stephen Crane (b. 1871), American writer.
• August 16 — José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, novelist
• August 25 — Friedrich Nietzsche (b. 1844), German philosopher.
• August 28 — Henry Sidgwick, philosopher
• November 30 — Oscar Wilde, poet and dramatist

[edit] Awards