Books - 1896 in literature

Events

• Final volume of Theodore Roosevelt's The Winning of the West.

New books

• La Soirée avec M. Teste - Paul Valéry
• The Country of the Pointed Firs - Sarah Orne Jewett
• L' empreinte - Edouard Estaunie
• In His Steps: 'What Would Jesus Do?' - Charles Monroe Sheldon
• Madelon - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• Le Médecin des dames de néans - René Boylesve
• The Mighty Atom - Marie Corelli
• The Murder of Delicia - Marie Corelli
• An Outcast of the Islands - Joseph Conrad
• The Patriot - Antonio Fogazzaro
• Red Men and White - Owen Wister
• Rome - Emile Zola
• Sir George Tressady - Mary Augusta Ward
• Tales from the Telling House - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
• The Time Machine
  - H. G. Wells
• Tom Sawyer, Detective
  - Mark Twain
• Weir of Hermiston - Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Well at the World's End - William Morris
• Ziska - Marie Corelli

New drama

• George Ade - Artie
• Anton Chekhov - The Seagull
• Alfred Jarry - Ubu Roi

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)

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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