1896 in literature
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See also: 1895 in literature, other events of 1896, 1897 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- Final volume of Theodore Roosevelt's The Winning of the West.
[edit] New books
- Richard Doddridge Blackmore - Tales from the Telling House
- René Boylesve - Le Médecin des dames de néans
- Joseph Conrad - An Outcast of the Islands
- Marie Corelli
- The Mighty Atom
- The Murder of Delicia
- Ziska
- Edouard Estaunie - L' empreinte
- Antonio Fogazzaro - The Patriot
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - Madelon
- Jules Girardin - Les aventures de M. Colin-Tampon
- Sarah Orne Jewett - The Country of the Pointed Firs
- William Morris - The Well at the World's End
- Robert Louis Stevenson - Weir of Hermiston
- Mark Twain - Tom Sawyer, Detective
- Paul Valéry - La Soirée avec M. Teste
- Jules Verne - Facing the Flag (Face au drapeau)
- Mary Augusta Ward - Sir George Tressady
- H. G. Wells
- Owen Wister - Red Men and White
- Emile Zola - Rome
[edit] New drama
- George Ade - Artie
- Anton Chekhov - The Seagull
- Alfred Jarry - Ubu Roi
[edit] Poetry
[edit] Non-fiction
- Theodor Herzl - Der Judenstaat
- Ragnar Redbeard - Might Is Right, or The Survival of the Fittest
- Charles Monroe Sheldon - In His Steps: 'What Would Jesus Do?'
- Andrew Dickson White - A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
[edit] Births
- January 7 - Arnold Ridley, dramatist and actor
- January 14 - John Dos Passos, novelist
- February 12 - Dorothy Frooks, author and publisher
- February 18 - André Breton, Surrealist poet and author
- April 16 - Tristan Tzara, poet and essayist
- May 3 - Dodie Smith, novelist and dramatist
- June 6 - R. C. Sherriff, dramatist
- July 19 - A. J. Cronin, novelist
- July 25 - Josephine Tey, crime writer
- August 28 - Liam O'Flaherty, novelist and short-story writer
- September 24 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (d. 1940)
- October 11 - Roman Jakobson, linguistic theorist
- October 30 - Ruth Gordon, actress and screenwriter (Adam's Rib)
[edit] Deaths
- January 8 - Paul Verlaine, poet
- January 17 - Lady Llanover, patron of the arts in Wales
- June 8 - Jules Simon, philosopher
- July 1 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin author
- July 11 - Ernst Curtius, historian
- July 16 - Edmond de Goncourt, dramatist
- August 17 - Mary Abigail Dodge, essayist
- October 3 - William Morris, poet, novelist and designer
- October 8 - George du Maurier, Trilby author
- November 26 - Coventry Patmore, poet
- December 10 - Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize for Literature
