1887 in literature
See also: 1886 in literature, other events of 1887, 1888 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Futabatei Shimei writes Drifting Clouds, the first modern novel in Japan.
New books
- Allan Quatermain - H. Rider Haggard
- Cut by the County - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- The Deemster - Hall Caine
- Un dilemme, En Rade - Joris-Karl Huysmans
- Drifting Clouds - Futabatei Shimei
- Jess - H. Rider Haggard
- Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
- La Terre - Emile Zola
- She - H. Rider Haggard
- A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle
- Thelma - Marie Corelli
- The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy
Births
- February 1 - Charles Nordhoff, author (+ 1947)
- February 3 - Georg Trakl, poet (+ 1914)
- February 11 - John van Melle, South African writer
- February 18 - Nikos Kazantzakis, poet (+ 1957)
- March 3 - Rupert Brooke, poet
- March 14 - Sylvia Beach, publisher
- June 2 - Orrick Johns, poet & playwright
- September 1 - Blaise Cendrars, writer (+ 1961)