1902 in literature

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See also: 1901 in literature, other events of 1902, 1903 in literature, list of years in literature.

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 Awards

Events

• April - Mark Twain purchases a home in Terrytown, New York.
• June 4 - Mark Twain receives an honorary doctorate of literature degree from Missouri University.
• June - Bertrand Russell writes to Gottlob Frege informing him of the problem that would become known as Russell's paradox.

New books

• Anna of the Five Towns - Arnold Bennett
• Audrey - Mary Johnston
• The Battle-Ground - Ellen Glasgow
• Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
• The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop - Hamlin Garland
• Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall - Charles Major
• The Earthen Floor (poetry) - Edwin James Brady
• Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
• The Hole in the Wall - Arthur Morrison
• The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
• Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling
• Lavinia - Rhoda Broughton
• L'immoraliste - André Gide
• Mrs Craddock - W. Somerset Maugham
• The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci - Dmitri Merejkowski
• The Sheepstealers - Violet Jacob
• The Sport of the Gods - Paul Laurence Dunbar
• Supermaschio - Alfred Jarry
• The Tale of Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter
• Temporal Power: A Study in Supremacy - Marie Corelli
• Valley of Decision - Edith Wharton
• The Varieties of Religious Experience - William James
• The Virginian - Owen Wister
• The Wings of the Dove - Henry James

New drama

• J. M. Barrie - The Admirable Crichton
• August Strindberg - A Dream Play

Births

• January 5 - Stella Gibbons, novelist
• January 20 - Nazim Hikmet, lyricist and dramatist (d. 1963)
• January 30 - Nikolaus Pevsner, author of a series of architectural guides to the UK
• February 1 - Langston Hughes, poet, novelist, journalist, etc.
• February 19 – Kay Boyle, writer, educator, political activist (d. 1992)
• February 27 - John Steinbeck writer (d. 1968)
• March 10 - Stefan Inglot, Polish historian
• April 6 - Julien Torma, poet and dramatist
• April 9 - Lord David Cecil, literary critic and biographer
• August 15 - Katharine Brush, short story writer
• August 16 – Georgette Heyer, British novelist (d. 1974)
• August 19 - Ogden Nash, poet(d. 1971)

"October 13 - Arna Bontemps, poet

• October 26 - Beryl Markham, memoirist

Deaths

• May 6 - Bret Harte, author, poet
• June 10 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet
• June 18 - Samuel Butler, novelist
• September 29
  • Emile Zola, French author
  • William Topaz McGonagall, notoriously bad poet
• October 7 - George Rawlinson, historian
• October 13 - John George Bourinot, Canadian historian
• October 25 - Frank Norris, novelist
• November 16 - G. A. Henty, novelist

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsende:1902 (Literatur)

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