1887 in literature

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• Futabatei Shimei writes Drifting Clouds, the first modern novel in Japan.

• 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
• Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy

• 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)

Deaths