1896 in literature

The year 1896 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

 * Final volume of Theodore Roosevelt's The Winning of the West.
 * The New York Times publishes its first book review section, which evolves to become The New York Times Book Review.

New books

 * Max Beerbohm - The Works of Max Beerbohm
 * Richard Doddridge Blackmore - Tales from the Telling House
 * René Boylesve - Le Médecin des dames de néans
 * Joseph Conrad - An Outcast of the Islands
 * Hall Caine - Jan the Icelander or Home, Sweet Home, A Lecture Story
 * Marie Corelli
 * The Mighty Atom
 * The Murder of Delicia
 * Ziska
 * Edouard Estaunie - L' empreinte
 * Harold Frederic - The Damnation of Theron Ware
 * 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
 * John McCoy - A Prophetic Romance
 * 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
 * Clovis Dardentor
 * Mary Augusta Ward - Sir George Tressady
 * H. G. Wells
 * The Time Machine
 * The Island of Dr. Moreau
 * Owen Wister - Red Men and White
 * Emile Zola - Rome

New drama

 * George Ade - Artie
 * Anton Chekhov - The Seagull
 * Henrik Ibsen - John Gabriel Borkman
 * Alfred Jarry - Ubu Roi

Poetry

 * A.E. Housman - A Shropshire Lad

Non-fiction

 * Theodor Herzl - Der Judenstaat
 * Charles Monroe Sheldon - In His Steps: 'What Would Jesus Do?'
 * Andrew Dickson White - A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom

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)
 * November 10 - Kate Seredy, children's author

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

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