Editing 1902 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1902'''.
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==Events==
*[[January 5]]
**The political drama ''[[Danton's Death]]'' (''Dantons Tod'', completed and published in 1835) by [[Georg Büchner]] (died [[1837 in literature|1837]]), is first performed, at the Belle-Alliance-Theater in [[Berlin]] by the Vereins Neue Freie Volksbühne.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Genius of the German Theater|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aWLVXJqn35UC|year=1968|page=425}}</ref>
**[[George Bernard Shaw]]'s controversial 1893 play ''[[Mrs. Warren's Profession]]'' receives its first performance at a private London club.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology">{{Cite book |last=Williams |first=Hywel |title=Cassell's Chronology of World History |url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/460 |url-access=registration |location=London |publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson |year=2005 |isbn=0-304-35730-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/460 460–461]}}</ref>
*[[January 23]] – The first example of a [[Sherlockian game]] – a study of inconsistencies of dates in [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s ''[[The Hound of the Baskervilles]]'' (the serialisation of which in ''[[The Strand Magazine]]'' concludes in April) by publisher Frank Sidgwick – appears in ''The Cambridge Review''.<ref>{{Cite journal |first=Frank |last=Sidgwick |title=An Open Letter to Dr Watson |journal=The Cambridge Review |url=http://www.bsiarchivalhistory.org/BSI_Archival_History/Sidgwick_essay.html |date=1902-01-23 |access-date=2020-01-25}}</ref>
*April – [[Mark Twain]] buys a home in [[Tarrytown, New York]]. On [[June 4]] he receives an honorary doctorate of literature from the [[University of Missouri]].
*[[June 16]] – [[Bertrand Russell]] writes to [[Gottlob Frege]] about the mathematical problem to become known as [[Russell's paradox]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4ktC0UrG4V8C&pg=PA253 |page=253 |year=1997 |title=The Frege Reader |isbn=978-0-631-19445-3 |first=Gottlob |last=Frege |editor=Beaney, Michael |location=Oxford |publisher=Blackwell}}</ref>
*[[July 1]] – The [[Romanian language]] literary review ''[[Luceafărul (magazine)|Luceafărul]]'' begins publication in [[Budapest]].
*[[August 6]] – ''În sat sau la oraș'' (In the Village or in the City), by the Romanian peasant leader [[Constantin Dobrescu-Argeș]], is performed in his native [[Mușătești]], in front of an audience comprising [[Ministry of National Education (Romania)|Education Minister]] [[Spiru Haret]]<ref name="Vrânceanu">{{Cite book |last=Vrânceanu |first=Mircea |year=1947 |title=Însemnările unui răsvrătit |location=Bucharest |publisher=Editura Socialistă |page=62}}</ref> and some 2,000 villagers.<ref>{{Cite journal |first=Liviu |last=Cernăianu |title=Tradiții culturale la Mușătești |journal=Albina. Revistă Săptămînală a Așezămintelor Culturale |volume=70 |issue=1029 |page=5}}</ref>
*[[September 9]] – [[P. G. Wodehouse]] leaves his job at the [[The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation|Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Company]] in London to become a freelance writer. On September 18, his first published novel, the [[P. G. Wodehouse locations#St. Austin's|St. Austin's]] school story ''[[The Pothunters]]'', is published in London by [[A & C Black]], as a truncation of the version in their ''[[Public School Magazine]]'' from January to March.
[[File:Peter Rabbit first edition 1902a.jpg|thumb|The cover of the first trade edition]]
*Early October – [[Beatrix Potter]]'s self-illustrated children's book ''[[The Tale of Peter Rabbit]]'' (originally published privately a year earlier) appears in its first trade edition with [[Frederick Warne & Co]] in London. It sells 28,000 copies by the end of the year.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lear |first=Linda |year=2007 |title=Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature |location=New York |publisher=St. Martin's Press |isbn=978-0-312-36934-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312369347}}</ref>
*[[October 5]] – Thousands attend the funeral of the French novelist [[Émile Zola]] at the [[Cimetière de Montmartre]], Paris. They include [[Alfred Dreyfus]], given special permission by Mme Zola to attend.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Thousands March At Funeral of Emile Zola: Municipal Guards Line the Route to Preserve Order. Dreyfus Attends After All, Is Unnoticed by the Crowd – Mme. Zola Gave Him Back His Promise to Stay Away – Very Little Disorder |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=1902-10-06}}</ref>
*[[November 4]] – [[J. M. Barrie]]'s comedy ''[[The Admirable Crichton]]'' is first performed, at the [[Duke of York's Theatre]] in London, starring [[H. B. Irving]], [[Henry Kemble (actor, born 1848)|Henry Kemble]] and [[Irene Vanbrugh]]. It runs for 828 performances.
*[[December 5]] – [[Leo Tolstoy]]'s drama ''[[The Power of Darkness]]'' («Власть тьмы», ''Vlast' t'my'', written in [[1886 in literature|1886]]) has its Russian-language première at the [[Moscow Art Theatre]] by [[Konstantin Stanislavski]] with some success, although Stanislavski is self-critical.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Stanislavsky |first=Constantin |title=[[My Life in Art]] |date=1924 |publisher=Geoffrey Bles |location=London |pages=400–403, 577}}</ref>
*[[December 18]] – [[Maxim Gorky]]'s drama ''[[The Lower Depths|The Lower Depths – Scenes from Russian Life]]'' («На дне», ''Na dne'') is first performed, at the Moscow Art Theatre, as a first major success for [[Konstantin Stanislavski]] as director and star.
*''unknown date'' – The poet [[Ștefan Petică]]'s cycle ''Fecioara în alb'' is published, marking a maturing of [[Symbolist movement in Romania|Romanian Symbolism]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cernat |first=Paul |authorlink=Paul Cernat |title=Avangarda românească și complexul periferiei: primul val |publisher=Cartea Românească |location=Bucharest |year=2007 |page=15}}</ref>

==New books==
===Fiction===
*[[Azorín]] – ''La voluntad'' (Volition)
*[[Jane Barlow]] – ''The Founding of Fortunes''
*[[Pío Baroja]] – ''[[:es:Camino de perfección (pasión mística)|Camino de perfección (pasión mística)]]'' (Road to Perfection)
*[[Edward Harold Begbie]] (as Caroline Lewis) – ''[[Clara in Blunderland]]''
*[[Arnold Bennett]]
**''[[Anna of the Five Towns]]''<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/>
**''[[The Grand Babylon Hotel]]''
*[[Rhoda Broughton]] – ''Lavinia''<ref>{{cite book|title=The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing|publisher=Springer International Publishing|year=2022|isbn=9783030783181|page=679}}</ref>
*[[Joseph Conrad]]
**''[[Typhoon (novella)|Typhoon]]'' (serialized in ''[[The Pall Mall Magazine]]'' January–March and US book publication)<ref>{{cite book |title=The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad |publisher=Cambridge University Press |chapter=The Short Fiction |author=Gail Fraser |editor=J. H. Stape |orig-year=1996 |year=2004 |pages=38–39] |isbn=0521484847}}</ref>
**''[[s:Youth: a Narrative, and Two Other Stories|Youth: a Narrative, and Two Other Stories]]'', incorporating ''[[Youth (Conrad short story)|Youth: a Narrative]]'' ([[1898 in literature|1898]]) and ''[[Heart of Darkness]]'' (first [[1899 in literature|1899]])<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/>
**''The End of the Tether''
*[[Marie Corelli]] – ''Temporal Power: A Study in Supremacy''
*[[Miguel de Unamuno]] – ''[[:es:Amor y pedagogía|Amor y pedagogía]]''
*[[Ramón del Valle-Inclán]] – ''[[:es:Sonatas (Valle-Inclán)|Sonatas: Memorias del Marqués de Bradomín – Sonata de otoño]]'' (Sonatas: The Pleasant Memories of the Marquis of Bradomín – Autumn Sonata)
*[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] – ''[[The Hound of the Baskervilles]]''<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/>
*[[Paul Laurence Dunbar]] – ''[[The Sport of the Gods]]''
*[[Hamlin Garland]] – ''The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop''
*[[André Gide]] – ''[[The Immoralist|L'immoraliste]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Gale, Cengage Learning|title=A Study Guide for Andre Gide's "The Immoralist"|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B1KVDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT3|date=29 June 2016|publisher=Gale, Cengage Learning|isbn=978-1-4103-4931-6|pages=3}}</ref>
*[[Ellen Glasgow]] – ''The Battle-Ground''
*[[Annie French Hector]] – ''Kitty Costello''<ref>{{cite book|author1=Peter Berresford Ellis|author2=Peter Tremayne|author3=Henry Rider Haggard|title=H. Rider Haggard: A Voice from the Infinite|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TysfAQAAIAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Routledge & K. Paul|isbn=978-0-7100-0026-2|page=147}}</ref>
*[[Theodor Herzl]] – ''[[The Old New Land]]''
*[[Violet Jacob]] – ''The Sheepstealers''
*[[W. W. Jacobs]] – ''[[The Lady of the Barge]]'' (short stories, including "[[The Monkey's Paw]]")
*[[Henry James]] – ''[[The Wings of the Dove]]''<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/>
*[[Alfred Jarry]] – ''[[Supermale (novel)|Supermale]] (Le Surmâle: roman moderne)''
*[[Mary Johnston]] – ''Audrey''
*[[Olha Kobylianska]] – ''Zemlya'' (Land)
*[[Liang Qichao]] – ''[[Xin Zhongguo weilai ji]]'' (新中國未來記, The Future of New China; unfinished)
*[[Jack London]] – ''[[A Daughter of the Snows]]''
*[[George Barr McCutcheon]] – ''[[Brewster's Millions]]''
*[[Charles Major (writer)|Charles Major]] – ''[[Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall]]''
*[[A. E. W. Mason]] – ''[[The Four Feathers]]''<ref>{{cite book|editor1=John C. Tibbetts|editor2=James M. Welsh|title=The Encyclopedia of Novels Into Film|year=2005|pages=136–159}}</ref>
*[[W. Somerset Maugham]] – ''[[Mrs Craddock]]''
*[[Dmitri Merejkowski]] – ''[[The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci]]''
*[[Frank Norris]] – ''[[The Pit (Norris novel)|The Pit]]'' (serialization)
*[[Luigi Pirandello]] – ''[[The Turn (novel)|Il Turno]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Fiora A. Bassanese|title=Understanding Luigi Pirandello|publisher=University of South Carolina Press|year=1997|isbn=9781570030819|page=172}}</ref>
*[[W. Heath Robinson]] – ''The Adventures of Uncle Lubin''
*[[Saki]] – ''[[The Westminster Alice]]''
*[[Percy Sykes]] – ''Ten Thousand Miles in Persia''<ref name="WDL">{{Cite web |url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/7307/ |title=A History of Persia |website=[[World Digital Library]] |date=1921 |access-date=2013-10-01}}</ref>
*[[Jules Verne]] – ''[[The Kip Brothers]]'' (''Les Frères Kip'')
*[[Eduard Vilde]] – ''[[Mahtra sõda]]'' (The War at Mahtra)<ref>{{cite book |title=Twentieth-Century Eastern European Writers: Second series, Volume 2 |date=2000 |publisher=Steven Serafin |location=Detroit |page=310}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Hasselblatt |first1=Cornelius |title=Geschichte der estnischen Literatur: von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart |date=2008 |publisher=De Gruyter |location=Berlin |page=311}}</ref>
*[[Owen Wister]] – ''[[The Virginian (novel)|The Virginian]]''<ref>Wister, Owen (1902). ''The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains.'' New York: Gramercy Books. {{ISBN|0-517-12278-2}}</ref>

===Children and young people===
*[[L. Frank Baum]] – ''[[The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus]]''
*[[J. M. Barrie]] – ''[[The Little White Bird]]'' (includes the story "[[Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens]]")
*[[Edith Ogden Harrison]] – ''[[Prince Silverwings]] and other fairy tales''
*[[William Dean Howells]] – ''The Flight of Pony Baker''
*[[Rudyard Kipling]] – ''[[Just So Stories]] for Little Children''<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/>
*[[Bessie Marchant]] – ''Fleckie: A Story of the Desert, etc.''
*[[E. Nesbit]] – ''[[Five Children and It]]''
*[[Beatrix Potter]] – ''[[The Tale of Peter Rabbit]]''<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/>
*[[Edward Stratemeyer]] – ''The Young Volcano Explorers''
*[[Mrs George de Horne Vaizey]] – ''A Houseful of Girls''
*[[Charles Norris Williamson|C. N. and A. M. Williamson]] – ''The Lightning Conductor: the Strange Adventures of a Motor-car''<ref>{{cite book |last=Richardson |first=Angelique |title=The new woman in fiction and in fact: fin-de-siècle feminisms |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan, in association with Institute for English Studies, University of London |location=Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York |year=2002 |isbn=9781349656035 |page=75}}</ref>
*[[P. G. Wodehouse]] – ''[[The Pothunters]]''

===Drama===
<onlyinclude>
*[[J. M. Barrie]] – ''[[The Admirable Crichton]]''
*[[Gordon Bottomley]] – ''The Crier by Night''
*[[Gaston Arman de Caillavet]] and [[Robert de Flers]] – ''Le Cœur a ses raisons''<ref>{{cite book|title=Catalog of the Theatre and Drama Collections|publisher=G. K. Hall|year=1967|page=980}}</ref>
*[[Constantin Dobrescu-Argeș]] – ''În sat sau la oraș'' (''In the Village or in the City'', first performance)<ref name="Vrânceanu"/>
*[[Clyde Fitch]] – ''The Girl with the Green Eyes''
*[[Cosmo Gordon-Lennox]] – ''[[The Marriage of Kitty (play)|The Marriage of Kitty]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Alan Goble|title=The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|year=1999|page=111}}</ref>
*[[Maxim Gorky]] – ''[[The Lower Depths]]''<ref>{{cite book|title=Naturalism and Symbolism in European Theatre 1850-1918.|editor1=Claude Schumacher|editor2=Glynne W. Wickham|editor3=John Northam|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1996|page=218}}</ref>
*[[Haralamb Lecca]] – ''Septima. Câiniĭ''
*[[Maurice Maeterlinck]] – ''Monna Vanna''
*[[Frank Wedekind]] – ''King Nicolo''
*[[W. B. Yeats]] – ''[[Cathleen Ní Houlihan]]''</onlyinclude>

===Poetry===
{{Main article|1902 in poetry}}
*[[Edwin James Brady]] – ''[[The Earthen Floor]]''
*[[Walter de la Mare]] (as Walter Ramal) – ''Songs of Childhood''<ref name=COCEL>{{Cite book |editor=Cox, Michael |title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |isbn=0-19-860634-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/timeline/#heading9 |title=A Time-Line of Poetry in English |work=Representative Poetry Online |publisher=[[University of Toronto]] |access-date=2008-12-20 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081228024145/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/timeline/ |archivedate=28 December 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Ștefan Petică]] – ''Fecioara în alb''

===Non-fiction===
*[[Jane Addams]] – ''Democracy and Social Ethics''
*[[James Allen (author)|James Allen]] – ''[[As a Man Thinketh]]''
*[[Hilaire Belloc]] – ''[[Hilaire Belloc bibliography|The Path to Rome]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Hilaire Belloc|title=The Path to Rome|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JGhRAQAAIAAJ|year=1911|publisher=G. Allen|page=iv}}</ref>
*[[Euclides da Cunha]] – ''[[Os Sertões]]'' (translated as ''Rebellion in the Backlands'')<ref>{{cite book|title=Historical Abstracts: Modern history abstracts, 1775-1914. Part A|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ah9BAQAAIAAJ|year=2000|publisher=American Bibliographical Center|page=130}}</ref>
*[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] – ''The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct''
*Michael Fairless (pseudonym of [[Margaret Barber]]) – ''[[The Roadmender]]''
*[[John A. Hobson]] – ''[[Imperialism (Hobson)|Imperialism: a study]]''<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/>
*[[William James]] – ''[[The Varieties of Religious Experience]]''
*[[Vilfredo Pareto]] – ''Les Systèmes socialistes''
*[[Bertrand Russell]] – ''A Free Man's Worship''
*[[Southern Education Board]] – ''Educational Conditions in the Southern Applachians''
*[[William Wynn Westcott]] – ''Collectanea Hermetica'' (finishes publication)

==Births==
*[[January 1]] - [[Muhammad Zaki Abd al-Qadir]], Egyptian journalist and writer (d. 1981) <ref>{{cite web |title=محمد زكي عبد القادر |url=https://www.maspero.eg/wps/portal/home/treasures/guests/%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%20%D9%85%D9%86%20%D9%87%D9%86%D8%A7/%D8%AA%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B5%D9%8A%D9%84%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%B9/031977d1-077c-4a91-8345-2e554916becb/|website=maspero.eg |access-date=20 July 2022 |language=ar}}</ref>
*[[January 5]] – [[Stella Gibbons]], English novelist (died [[1989 in literature|1989]])
*[[January 20]] – [[Nazim Hikmet]], Turkish lyricist and dramatist (died [[1963 in literature|1963]])
*[[January 30]] – [[Nikolaus Pevsner]], German-born architectural historian (died [[1983 in literature|1983]])
*[[February 13]] – [[Fernando Chaves]], Ecuadorian novelist, essayist, and journalist (died [[1999 in literature|1999]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://aequatoria.com/chavez.html |title=Ecuatorianos en Japon: KANSAI Fernando Chaves Reyes |access-date=2016-06-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809153957/http://aequatoria.com/chavez.html |archive-date=2016-08-09 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[February 16]] – [[Ion Călugăru]], Romanian novelist, short story writer and journalist (died [[1956 in literature|1956]])
*[[February 19]] – [[Kay Boyle]], American writer, educator and political activist (died [[1992 in literature|1992]])
*[[February 27]] – [[John Steinbeck]], American novelist and journalist (died [[1968 in literature|1968]])
*[[March 9]] – [[Thomas Owen Beachcroft]], English novelist (died [[1988 in literature|1988]])
*[[March 10]] – [[Stefan Inglot]], Polish historian (died [[1994 in literature|1994]])
*[[March 29]] – [[Marcel Aymé]], French novelist and short-story writer (died [[1967 in literature|1967]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Christopher Lloyd|title=Marcel Aymé: Uranus, La Tête Des Autres|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UvzwAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=University of Glasgow French and German Publications|isbn=978-0-85261-445-7|page=8}}</ref>
*[[April 2]] – [[Jan Tschichold]], German-born typographer (died [[1974 in literature|1974]])
*[[April 6]] – [[Julien Torma]], French poet and dramatist (died [[1933 in literature|1933]])
*[[April 9]] – [[Lord David Cecil]], English literary critic and biographer (died [[1986 in literature|1986]])
*[[April 23]] – [[Halldór Laxness]], Icelandic novelist (died [[1998 in literature|1998]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Peter Hallberg|title=Halldor Laxness|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zR1Q22sofYUC&pg=PA27|year=1971|publisher=Ardent Media|pages=27}}</ref>
*[[June 5]] – [[Hugo Huppert]], Austrian poet, writer and translator (died [[1982 in literature|1982]])
*[[July 10]] – [[Nicolás Guillén]], Afro-Cuban poet (died [[1989 in literature|1989]])
*[[July 8]] – [[Gwendolyn B. Bennett]], African American writer and artist (died [[1981 in literature|1981]])
*[[July 27]] - [[Yaroslav Halan]], Ukrainian playwright, translator, and publicist (died [[1949 in literature|1949]])
*[[August 15]] – [[Katharine Brush]], American short story writer (died [[1952 in literature|1952]])
*[[August 16]] – [[Georgette Heyer]], English novelist (died [[1974 in literature|1974]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Contemporary Popular Writers|publisher=St. James Press|year=1997|isbn=9781558622166|page=197}}</ref>
*[[August 19]] – [[Ogden Nash]], American poet and humorist (died [[1971 in literature|1971]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Cleveland Amory|title=International Celebrity Register|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bivTAAAAMAAJ|year=1959|publisher=Celebrity Register|page=543}}</ref>
*[[August 24]]
**[[Felipe Alfau]], Spanish-American fiction writer, poet and translator (died [[1999 in literature|1999]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Regina Galasso|title=Translating New York: The City's Languages in Iberian Literatures|publisher=Liverpool University Press|year=2018|isbn=9781786948670|page=29}}</ref>
**[[Fernand Braudel]], French historian (died [[1985 in literature|1985]])
*[[September 21]] – [[Luis Cernuda]], Spanish poet (died [[1963 in literature|1963]])
*[[September 25]] – [[Ernst von Salomon]], German writer (died [[1972 in literature|1972]])
*[[October 13]] – [[Arna Bontemps]], African American poet (died [[1973 in literature|1973]])
*[[October 23]] – [[Dadie Rylands]] (George Rylands), English Shakespeare scholar (died [[1999 in literature|1999]])
*[[October 26]] – [[Beryl Markham]] (Beryl Clutterbuck), English-born Kenyan adventurer and memoirist (died [[1986 in literature|1986]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Margo McLoone|author2=Jacquelyn L. Beyer|title=Women Explorers of the Air: Harriet Quimby, Bessie Coleman, Amelia Earhart, Beryl Markham, Jacqueline Cochran|publisher=Capstone Books|year=1999|isbn=9780736803106|page=33}}</ref>
*[[October 31]] – [[Carlos Drummond de Andrade]], Brazilian poet (died [[1987 in literature|1987]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Nist|title=The Modernist Movement in Brazil: A Literary Study|publisher=University of Texas Press|year=2014|isbn=9781477304525|page=129}}</ref>
*[[November 1]] – [[Nordahl Grieg]], Norwegian poet and author (killed in action [[1943 in literature|1943]])<ref>{{cite book |title=20th-century Plays in Synopsis |publisher=T. Y. Crowell Company |year=1966 |page=476}}</ref>
*[[November 2]] 
**[[Hu Feng]] (胡风), Chinese novelist (died [[1985 in literature|1985]])
**[[Gyula Illyés]], Hungarian author (died [[1983 in literature|1983]])
*[[November 29]] – [[Carlo Levi]], Italian writer (died [[1975 in literature|1975]])
*[[December 7]] – [[Nicolae Crevedia]], Romanian poet, novelist and journalist (died [[1978 in literature|1978]]){{cn|date=July 2024}}
*[[December 20]] – [[Jolán Földes]], Hungarian novelist and playwright (died [[1963 in literature|1963]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Ursula Seeber|author2=Alisa Douer|author3=Edith Blaschitz|title=Kleine Verbündete: vertriebene österreichische Kinder- und Jugendliteratur|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RG8aAQAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Picus|isbn=978-3-85452-276-8|language=de}}</ref>

==Deaths==
[[File:Emile Zola 1902.jpg|thumb|[[Émile Zola]] in 1902]]
*[[January 7]] – [[Wilhelm Hertz (writer)|Wilhelm Hertz]], German poet and translator (born [[1835 in literature|1835]])
*[[April 6]] – [[Gleb Uspensky]], Russian writer (born [[1843 in literature|1843]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Nikita Prut︠s︡kov|title=Gleb Uspensky|publisher=Twayne|year=1972|page=154}}</ref>
*[[April 20]] – [[Frank R. Stockton]], American writer and humorist (born [[1834 in literature|1834]])
*[[April 21]] – [[Ethna Carbery]], Irish poet (born [[1866 in literature|1866]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://archive.irishnewsarchive.com/Olive/APA/INA/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=FMJ%2F1902%2F04%2F03&id=Ar00524&sk=8311E50C|title=Death of Mrs Seamus MacManus|work=Freeman's Journal|access-date=21 April 2017}}</ref>
*[[April 27]] – [[Nancy H. Adsit]], American art lecturer, art educator, and writer of art literature (born [[1825 in literature|1825]]){{cn|date=January 2022}}
*[[May 5]] – [[Bret Harte]], American author and poet (born [[1836 in literature|1836]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=vfT5ieZw1WcC&dat=19020506&printsec=frontpage&hl=en|newspaper=Newburgh Daily Journal|date=May 6, 1902|title=Bret Harte Dead|access-date=January 28, 2022}}</ref>
*[[May 6]] 
** [[Martha Perry Lowe]], American social activist and organizer (born [[1829 in literature|1829]])
** [[Emma Augusta Sharkey]], American [[Dime novel|dime novelist]] (born [[1858 in literature|1858]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Kaser|first=James A.|title=The New Orleans of Fiction: A Research Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SVYtBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA295|date=July 29, 2014|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-9204-0|page=295}}</ref>
*[[May]] 17/18 — [[Harriet Abbott Lincoln Coolidge]], American philanthropist, author and reformer (b. [[1849]])
*[[June 10]] – [[Jacint Verdaguer]], Catalan poet (born [[1845 in literature|1845]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Baedeker's Barcelona |publisher=Prentice Hall Travel |location=New York |year=1992 |isbn=9780130635617 |page=43}}</ref>
*[[June 18]] – [[Samuel Butler (novelist)|Samuel Butler]], English novelist (born [[1835 in literature|1835]])<ref>{{Cite book |title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 8 |year=2004 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=216 |isbn=0-19-861359-8}}Article by Elinor Shaffer.</ref>
*[[July 10]] – [[Annie French Hector]] (pseudonym Mrs Alexander), Irish-born novelist (born [[1825 in literature|1825]])
*[[August 31]]
* [[August 31]]
**[[Grace Webster Haddock Hinsdale|Grace Hinsdale]], American religious writer (born [[1832 in literature|1832]])
**[[Mathilde Wesendonck]], German poet (born [[1828 in literature|1828]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Wolf |first=Hugo |title=Letters to Melanie Köchert |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |location=Madison, Wis |year=2003 |isbn=9780299194444 |page=xxxvii}}</ref>
*[[September 11]] – [[Ernst Dümmler]], German historian (born [[1830 in literature|1830]])<ref>{{EB1911|wstitle=Dümmler, Ernst Ludwig|volume=8|page=665}}</ref>
*[[September 19]] – [[Masaoka Shiki]] (正岡 子規), Japanese haiku poet (born [[1867 in literature|1867]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan|publisher=Kodansha|year=1983|page=124}}</ref>
*[[September 29]]
**[[William McGonagall]], Scottish doggerel poet (born [[1825 in literature|1825]])<ref>{{Cite ODNB|id=40706|title=McGonagall, William |first=William |last=Donaldson |date=2004}}</ref>
**[[Émile Zola]], French novelist (carbon monoxide poisoning, born [[1840 in literature|1840]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/strange-death-emile-zola |title=The Strange Death of Emile Zola |publisher=History Today Volume 52 |date=9 September 2002|access-date=21 February 2017}}</ref>
*[[October 7]] – [[George Rawlinson]], English historian (born [[1812 in literature|1812]])
*[[October 13]] – [[John George Bourinot (younger)|John George Bourinot]], Canadian historian (born [[1836 in literature|1836]])
*[[October 25]] – [[Frank Norris]], American novelist (peritonitis, born [[1870 in literature|1870]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Frank Norris, the novelist, died to-day as the result of an operation for appendicitis performed three days ago|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1902/10/26/118483563.pdf|website=The New York Times|date=October 26, 1902|access-date=January 28, 2022}}</ref>
*[[October 31]] – [[Cornélie Huygens]], Dutch writer, social democrat and feminist (born [[1848 in literature|1848]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Cornélie Huygens |url=https://www.dbnl.org/auteurs/auteur.php?id=huyg004 |website=DBNL |access-date=29 May 2019 |language=nl}}</ref>
*[[November 16]] – [[G. A. Henty]], English historical novelist (born [[1832 in literature|1832]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College, 1349-1897: Admissions since January 1, 1899. Chronicle of the College estates|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o45BAAAAYAAJ|year=1912|publisher=University Press|page=126}}</ref>
*[[December 26]] – [[Mary Hartwell Catherwood]], American author and poet (born [[1849 in literature|1849]])<ref>{{cite book|first=Price|last=Robert|chapter=Catherwood, Mary Hartwell|editor-first=Edward T.|editor-last=James|title=Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary|volume=1|year=1971|isbn=978-0-67462-734-5|page=308}}</ref>

==Awards==
*[[Nobel Prize for Literature]]: [[Christian Mommsen|Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen]]

==References==
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