1902 in literature

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.

• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is published. In 2001, the book would be one of four books by Conrad to be on the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

• The Wings of the Dove by Henry James is published. In 2001, the book would be one of three books by James to be on the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

New Books

• Anna of the Five Towns - Arnold Bennett
• The Battle-Ground - Ellen Glasgow
• Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
• The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop - Hamlin Garland
• 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
• Lavinia - Rhoda Broughton
• L'immoraliste - Andre Gide
• Mrs Craddock - W. Somerset Maugham
• The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci - Dmitri Merejkowski
• The Sport of the Gods - Paul Laurence Dunbar
• Supermaschio - Alfred Jarry
• 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

Births

• January 20 - Nazim Hikmet, lyricist and dramatist († 1963)
• February 27 - John Steinbeck writer (+ 1968)
• August 19 - Ogden Nash, poet(+ 1971)

Deaths

• May 6 - Bret Harte, author, poet
• June 10 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet
• June 18 - Samuel Butler, novelist
• September 29 - Emile Zola, French author
• October 25 - Frank Norris, novelist

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen

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