1902 in literature
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See also: 1901 in literature, other events of 1902, 1903 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- April - Mark Twain purchases a home in Terrytown, New York.
- June 4 - Mark Twain receives an honorary doctorate of literature degree from Missouri University.
- June - Bertrand Russell writes to Gottlob Frege informing him of the problem that would become known as Russell's paradox.
[edit] 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
- Edith Wharton - Valley of Decision
- Owen Wister - The Virginian
[edit] New drama
[edit] Poetry
- Edwin James Brady - The Earthen Floor
[edit] Non-fiction
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
