1900 in literature - Definition

See also: 1899 in literature, other events of 1900, 1901 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser is published.

• Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad is published.

New Books

• Baa Baa, Black Sheep - Rudyard Kipling
• Eleanor - Mary Augusta Ward
• Il Fuoco (The Flame of Life) - Gabriele D'Annunzio
• The Heart's Highway - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• The Infidel - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
• Love and Mr Lewisham - H. G. Wells
• The Master Christian - Marie Corelli
• Monsieur Beaucaire - Booth Tarkington
• Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
• Three Men on the Bummel - Jerome K. Jerome
• Whilomville Stories - Stephen Crane
• The Wild Knight and Other Poems - G. K. Chesterton
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum

Births

• July 18 - Nathalie Sarraute, Russian born Francophone lawyer and writer (d. 1999)
• October 16 - Edward Ardizzone, children's writer and illustrator
• November 8 - Margaret Mitchell (d. 1949), American writer.

Deaths

• January 20 - Richard Doddridge Blackmore (b. 1825), English writer.
• January 29 - John Ruskin, critic
• June 5 - Stephen Crane (b. 1871), American writer.
• August 25 - Friedrich Nietzsche (b. 1844), German philosopher.

Awards