1902 in literature

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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.

January 5 - Stella Gibbons, novelist (d. 1989)
January 20 - Nazim Hikmet, lyricist and dramatist (d. 1963)
January 30 - Nikolaus Pevsner, author of a series of architectural guides (d. 1983)
February 1 - Langston Hughes, poet and novelist (d. 1967)
February 19 – Kay Boyle, writer, educator, political activist (d. 1992)
February 27 - John Steinbeck, US writer (d. 1968)
March 10 - Stefan Inglot, Polish historian (d. 1994)
March 29 - Marcel Aymé, French author (d. 1967)
April 6 - Julien Torma, poet and dramatist (d. 1933)
April 9 - Lord David Cecil, English literary critic and biographer (d. 1986)
April 23 - Halldór Laxness, Icelandic novelist (d. 1998)
July 10 - Nicolás Guillén, Afro-Cuban poet (d. 1989)
August 15 - Katharine Brush, short story writer (d. 1952)
August 16 – Georgette Heyer, British novelist (d. 1974)
August 19 - Ogden Nash, US poet (d. 1971)
October 13 - Arna Bontemps, poet (d. 1973)
October 26 - Beryl Markham, memoirist (d. 1986)
October 31 - Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet (d. 1987)
November 2 - Gyula Illyés, Hungarian author (d. 1983)
November 29 - Carlo Levi, Italian writer (d. 1975)

January 7 - Wilhelm Hertz
April 20 - Frank R. Stockton, writer and humorist
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