1899 in literature
See also: 1898 in literature, other events of 1899, 1900 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Anton Chekov's new drama, Uncle Vanya
New books
- The Awakening - Kate Chopin
- Blix - Frank Norris
- The Conjure Woman - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- demoiselle Cloque - René Boylesve
- Egri Csillagok - Géza Gárdonyi
- Fecondite - Emile Zola
- Foes in law - Rhoda Broughton
- Foma Gordyeeff - Maxim Gorky
- The Game and the Candle - Rhoda Broughton
- The Golden Canon - G.A. Henty
- His Darling Sin - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- McTeague - Frank Norris
- The Man with the Twisted Lip - Arthur Conan Doyle
- A Message to Garcia - Elbert Hubbard
- Old Chester Tales - Margaret Deland
- Red Pottage - Mary Cholmondeley
- Resurrection - Leo Tolstoy
- The School and Society - John Dewey
- La terre qui meurt - René Bazin
- To London Town - Arthur Morrison
- Dom Casmurro - Machado de Assis
Births
- January 17 - Nevil Shute, novelist
- February 23 - Erich Kästner, children's author
- March 25 - Jacques Audiberti (d. 1965)
- April 22 - Vladimir Nabokov, novelist (d. 1977)
- May 8 - Friedrich Hayek, social scientist
- July 21
- Ernest Hemingway, novelist (d. 1961)
- Hart Crane, poet (d. 1932)
- August 9 - P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins author
- November 10 - Kate Seredy, children's author
- December 16 - Noel Coward, playwright (d. 1973)
Deaths
- February 10 - Archibald Lampman, poet
- March 16 - Alexander Balloch Grosart, literary editor
- May 16 - Francisque Sarcey, journalist and theatre critic
- June 7 - Augustin Daly, dramatist and theatre manager
- July 18 - Horatio Alger, Jr.
- August 29 - Catharine Parr Traill, English-born author of "Canadiana"
- October 25 - Grant Allen, author
- December 22 - Dwight L. Moody, preacher and publisher