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The year 1900 in literature involved some significant new books.
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Events
- Ermete Novelli establishes the Casa di Goldoni at Rome, in imitation of the Comédie Française.
New books
- L. Frank Baum
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon — The Infidel
- Colette — Claudine à l'école
- Joseph Conrad — Lord Jim
- Marie Corelli — The Master Christian
- Stephen Crane — Whilomville Stories
- Gabriele D'Annunzio — The Flame of Life (Italian: Il Fuoco)
- Theodore Dreiser — Sister Carrie
- Robert Grant — Unleavened Bread
- Jerome K. Jerome — Three Men on the Bummel
- Rudyard Kipling — Baa Baa, Black Sheep
- Octave Mirbeau — The Diary of a Chambermaid (French: Le Journal d'une femme de chambre)
- Bradford C. Peck - The World a Department Store
- Emilio Salgari — The Tigers of Mompracem (Italian: Le tigri di Mompracem)
- Henryk Sienkiewicz — The Teutonic Knights (Polish: Krzyżacy)
- Booth Tarkington — Monsieur Beaucaire
- Jules Verne
- Mary Augusta Ward — Eleanor
- H. G. Wells — Love and Mr Lewisham
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman — The Heart's Highway
New drama
- Anton Chekhov - Uncle Vanya
- George Bernard Shaw - Captain Brassbound's Conversion
- August Strindberg - The Dance of Death and Easter
Poetry
- Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900 (edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch)
- G. K. Chesterton — The Wild Knight and Other Poems
- Ismail Hossain Shiraji — Anal Prabaha
Non-fiction
- Arthur Conan Doyle — The Great Boer War
- The Nuttall Encyclopaedia (edited by James Wood)
- Sigmund Freud — The Interpretation of Dreams
Births
- January 9 — Emmanuel D'Astier, journalist
- February 19 — Giorgos Seferis, poet
- February 22 — Sean O'Faolain, short story writer
- April 19 — Richard Hughes, novelist
- April 24 — Elizabeth Goudge, novelist and children's author
- May 1 — Ignazio Silone, novelist
- June 29 — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, novelist
- July 18 — Nathalie Sarraute, Russian born Francophone lawyer and writer (d. 1999)
- July 24 — Zelda Fitzgerald, wife and inspiration of F. Scott Fitzgerald
- September 7 — Taylor Caldwell, novelist
- September 9 — James Hilton, novelist
- October 16 — Edward Ardizzone, children's writer and illustrator
- November 8 — Margaret Mitchell (d. 1949), Gone with the Wind author.
- November 19 — Anna Seghers, novelist
- December 16 — V. S. Pritchett, short story writer
Deaths
- January 20 — Richard Doddridge Blackmore (b. 1825), English writer.
- January 29 — John Ruskin, critic
- January 31 — John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, nemesis of Oscar Wilde
- February 23 — Ernest Dowson, poet
- April 23 — Charles Isaac Elton, historian
- July 3 — Fernand Brouez, editor of La Société Nouvelle
- June 3 — Mary Kingsley, travel writer
- June 4 — Edwards Amasa Park, theologian
- June 5 — Stephen Crane (b. 1871), American writer.
- August 16 — José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, novelist
- August 25 — Friedrich Nietzsche (b. 1844), German philosopher.
- August 28 — Henry Sidgwick, philosopher
- November 30 — Oscar Wilde, poet and dramatist
Awards
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