1889 in literature - Definition and Overview

See also: 1888 in literature, other events of 1889, 1890 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Theodore Roosevelt publishes the first of four volumes of The Winning of the West between 1889-1896

New Books

• Ardath - Marie Corelli
• Blind Love - Wilkie Collins
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
• The Dark Eyes Of London - Edgar Wallace
• Hale-Weston - Molly Elliot Seawell
• The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy
• The Legacy of Cain - Wilkie Collins
• Micah Clarke - Arthur Conan Doyle
• Mike Fletcher - George A. Moore
• The Mystery of Cloomber - Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Nether World - George Gissing
• Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche

Births

• July 5 - Jean Cocteau, writer
• July 17 - Erle Stanley Gardner, author (+ 1970)
• September 23 - Walter Lippmann, writer (+ 1974)

Deaths

• June 15 - Mihai Eminescu, outstanding Romanian poet
• September 23 - Wilkie Collins, novelist
• November 18 - William Allingham, Irish poet

Awards