Books - 1899 in literature

Events

• Anton Chekov's new drama, Uncle Vanya

New books

• The Awakening - Kate Chopin
• Blix - Frank Norris
• The Conjure Woman - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
• demoiselle Cloque - René Boylesve
• Egri Csillagok - Géza Gárdonyi
• Fécondité - Émile Zola
• Foes in law - Rhoda Broughton
• Foma Gordyeeff - Maxim Gorky
• The Game and the Candle - Rhoda Broughton
• The Golden Canon - G.A. Henty
• His Darling Sin - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• McTeague - Frank Norris
• The Man with the Twisted Lip - Arthur Conan Doyle
• A Message to Garcia - Elbert Hubbard
• Old Chester Tales - Margaret Deland
• Red Pottage - Mary Cholmondeley
• Resurrection
  - Leo Tolstoy
• The Sky Pilot - Ralph Connor
• The School and Society - John Dewey
• La terre qui meurt - René Bazin
• To London Town - Arthur Morrison
• Dom Casmurro - Machado de Assis

Births

• January 17 - Nevil Shute, novelist
• February 23 - Erich Kästner, children's author
• March 25 - Jacques Audiberti (d. 1965)
• April 22 - Vladimir Nabokov, novelist (d. 1977)
• May 8 - Friedrich Hayek, social scientist
• July 21
• *Ernest Hemingway, novelist (d. 1961)
• *Hart Crane, poet (d. 1932)
• August 9 - P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins author
• November 10 - Kate Seredy, children's author
• December 16 - Noel Coward, playwright (d. 1973)

Deaths

• February 10 - Archibald Lampman, poet
• March 16 - Alexander Balloch Grosart, literary editor
• May 16 - Francisque Sarcey, journalist and theatre critic
• June 7 - Augustin Daly, dramatist and theatre manager
• July 18 - Horatio Alger, Jr.
• August 29 - Catharine Parr Traill, English-born author of "Canadiana"
• October 25 - Grant Allen, author
• December 22 - Dwight L. Moody, preacher and publisher

Awards

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