1902 in literature

1902 in literature

The year 1902 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

* April - Mark Twain purchases a home in Terrytown, New York.
* June 4 - Mark Twain receives an honorary doctorate of literature degree from The University of Missouri.
* June - Bertrand Russell writes to Gottlob Frege informing him of the problem that would become known as Russell's paradox.

New books

*Arnold Bennett - "Anna of the Five Towns"
*Rhoda Broughton - "Lavinia"
*Joseph Conrad - "Heart of Darkness"
*Marie Corelli - ""
*Arthur Conan Doyle - "The Hound of the Baskervilles"
*Paul Laurence Dunbar - "The Sport of the Gods"
*Hamlin Garland - "The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop"
*André Gide - "L'immoraliste"
*Ellen Glasgow - "The Battle-Ground"
*Theodor Herzl - "The Old New Land"
*Violet Jacob - "The Sheepstealers"
*Henry James - "The Wings of the Dove"
*Alfred Jarry - "Supermaschio"
*Mary Johnston - "Audrey"
*Rudyard Kipling - "Just So Stories"
*Jack London - "A Daughter of the Snows"
*George Barr McCutcheon - "Brewster's Millions"
*Charles Major - "Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall"
*W. Somerset Maugham - "Mrs Craddock"
*Dmitri Merejkowski - "The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci"
*Arthur Morrison - "The Hole in the Wall"
*E. Nesbit - "Five Children and It"
*Luigi Pirandello - "Il Turno"
*Beatrix Potter - "The Tale of Peter Rabbit"
*Jules Verne - "The Kip Brothers"
*Edith Wharton - "The Valley of Decision"
*Owen Wister - "The Virginian"

New drama

*J. M. Barrie - "The Admirable Crichton"
*August Strindberg - "A Dream Play"

Poetry

*Edwin James Brady - "The Earthen Floor"

Non-fiction

*Hilaire Belloc - "The Path to Rome".
*Michael Fairless - "The Roadmender"
*William James - "The Varieties of Religious Experience".
*Bertrand Russell - "A Free Man's Worship".
*John A. Hobson - "Imperialism (Hobson)".

Births

*January 5 - Stella Gibbons, novelist
*January 20 - Nazim Hikmet, lyricist and dramatist (d. 1963)
*January 30 - Nikolaus Pevsner, author of a series of architectural guides to the UK
*February 1 - Langston Hughes, poet, novelist, journalist, etc.
*February 19 – Kay Boyle, writer, educator, political activist (d. 1992)
*February 27 - John Steinbeck writer (d. 1968)
*March 10 - Stefan Inglot, Polish historian
*April 6 - Julien Torma, poet and dramatist
*April 9 - Lord David Cecil, literary critic and biographer
*August 15 - Katharine Brush, short story writer
*August 16 – Georgette Heyer, British novelist (d. 1974)
*August 19 - Ogden Nash, poet(d. 1971)
*October 13 - Arna Bontemps, poet
*October 26 - Beryl Markham, memoirist

Deaths

*January 7 - Wilhelm Hertz
*May 6 - Bret Harte, author, poet
*June 10 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet
*June 18 - Samuel Butler, novelist
*September 11 - Ernst Dümmler, historian
*September 29
**Emile Zola, French author
**William Topaz McGonagall, notoriously bad poet
*October 7 - George Rawlinson, historian
*October 13 - John George Bourinot, Canadian historian
*October 25 - Frank Norris, novelist
*November 16 - G. A. Henty, novelist

Awards

* Nobel Prize for Literature: Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen


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