1902 in literature - Definition and Overview

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

• The Wings of the Dove by Henry James is published.

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
• 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 Sport of the Gods - Paul Laurence Dunbar
• Supermaschio - Alfred Jarry
• The Tale of Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter
• - 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 (d. 1963)
• February 19 – Kay Boyle, writer, educator, political activist (d. 1992)
• February 27 - John Steinbeck writer (d. 1968)
• August 16 – Georgette Heyer, British novelist (d. 1974)
• August 19 - Ogden Nash, poet(d. 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