1902 in literature

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The year 1902 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

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 - Temporal Power: A Study in Supremacy
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.

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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