1889 in literature

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• Theodore Roosevelt publishes the first of four volumes of The Winning of the West between 1889-1896

• Ardath - Marie Corelli
• Blind Love - Wilkie Collins
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
• The Dark Eyes Of London - Edgar Wallace
• Hale-Weston - Molly Elliot Seawell
• The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy
• The Legacy of Cain - Wilkie Collins
• Micah Clarke - Arthur Conan Doyle
• Mike Fletcher - George A. Moore
• The Mystery of Cloomber - Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Nether World - George Gissing
• The Sign of the Four - Arthur Conan Doyle
• Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche

• July 5 - Jean Cocteau, writer
• July 17 - Erle Stanley Gardner, author (+ 1970)
• September 23 - Walter Lippmann, writer (+ 1974)

• June 15 - Mihail Eminescu, outstanding Romanian poet
• September 23 - Wilkie Collins, novelist
• November 18 - William Allingham, Irish poet