1903 in literature

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See also: 1902 in literature, other events of 1903, 1904 in literature, list of years in literature.

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

Events

• October 24 - Mark Twain moves to Florence.
• The first Goncourt Prize for French literature is awarded to John Antoine Nau.
• The Ambassadors by Henry James is serialized in twelve installments, from January to December.
• Jack London's novel The Call of the Wild is serialized in the Saturday Evening Post.

New books

• The Ambassadors - Henry James
• The Call of the Wild - Jack London
• Enfant à la Balustrade - René Boylesve
• Force ennemie - John Antoine Nau
• The Jewel of Seven Stars - Bram Stoker
• Lady Rose's Daughter - Mary Augusta Ward
• The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come - John Fox, Jr.
• The Pit - Frank Norris
• The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft - George Gissing
• The Riddle of the Sands - Robert Erskine Childers
• Principia Ethica - G. E. Moore
• Said the Fisherman - Marmaduke Pickthall
• The Souls of Black Folk - W. E. B. DuBois
• The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin - Beatrix Potter
• Thirty Years in Australia - Ada Cambridge
• Typhoon and Other Stories - Joseph Conrad
• Verite - Emile Zola
• The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler
• The Wind in the Rose Bush - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

New drama

• Dusé Mohamed Ali - The Jew's Revenge

Births

• January 7 - Zora Neale Hurston
• February 11 - Alan Paton, writer
• February 13 - Georges Simenon, Belgian writer
• February 22 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer
• July 10 - John Wyndham, British writer
• October 17 - Nathanael West, novelist and screenwriter

Deaths

• January 22 - Augustus Hare, biographer and travel writer
• February 8 - Ada Ellen Bayly, novelist
• March 6 - Gaston Paris, literary critic and scholar
• March 14 - Ernest Legouvé, dramatist
• May 25 - Max O'Rell, journalist
• April 29 - Paul du Chaillu, travel writer
• July 11 - William Henley, British poet
• September 1 - Charles Bernard Renouvier, philosopher
• October 4 - Otto Weininger, philosopher
• November 1 - Theodor Mommsen, German classical scholar and historian
• December 28 - George Gissing, British novelist

Awards

• Goncourt Prize: John Antoine Nau for Force ennemie
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsonde:1903 (Literatur)

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