See also: 1895 in literature, other events of 1896, 1897 in literature, list of years in literature. See also: 1894 in literature, other events of 1895, 1896 in literature, list of years in literature. ... 1896 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... See also: 1896 in literature, other events of 1897, 1898 in literature, list of years in literature. ... This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. ...

Events

• Final volume of Theodore Roosevelt's The Winning of the West.
• The Seagull, a new drama by Anton Chekhov

Order: 26th President Vice President: Charles Warren Fairbanks Term of office: September 14, 1901 – March 3, 1909 Preceded by: William McKinley Succeeded by: William Howard Taft Date of birth: October 27, 1858 Place of birth: New York City Date of death: January 6, 1919 Place of death: Oyster Bay, New... The Seagull is the first of what are generally considered to be Anton Chekhovs four major plays. ... Chekhov (left) and Maxim Gorky at Yalta in 1900 Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Ант́он П́авлович Ч́ехов) (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) (Old Style: 17 January 1860 – 2 July 1904) was a major Russian playwright and perhaps the foremost modern writer of the short story. ...

New books

• La Soirée avec M. Teste - Paul Valéry
• The Country of the Pointed Firs - Sarah Orne Jewett
• L' empreinte - Edouard Estaunie
• In His Steps: 'What Would Jesus Do?' - Rev. Charles Monroe Sheldon
• Madelon - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• Le Médecin des dames de néans - René Boylesve
• The Mighty Atom - Marie Corelli
• The Murder of Delicia - Marie Corelli
• An Outcast of the Islands - Joseph Conrad
• The Patriot - Antonio Fogazzaro
• Red Men and White - Owen Wister
• Rome - Emile Zola
• Sir George Tressady - Mary Augusta Ward
• Tales from the Telling House - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
• The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
• Tom Sawyer, Detective - Mark Twain
• Weir of Hermiston - Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Well at the World's End - William Morris
• Ziska - Marie Corelli

Paul Valéry (October 30, 1871 – July 20, 1945) was a French author and poet of the Symbolist school. ... Sarah Orne Jewett (September 3, 1849 – June 24, 1909) was an American author whose works were set in her native New England. ... Édouard Estaunié (Dijon, 1862 - Paris, 1942) was a French novelist, he was elected to the Académie française in 1923. ... Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (October 31, 1852 – March 13, 1930) was a prominent female American writer of the Victorian era known for her short stories and novels of life in New England villages. ... René Boylesve (born René Marie Auguste Tardiveau) (April 14, 1867 - January 14, 1926) was a French author. ... Marie Corelli (1855 - 1924), novelist. ... Marie Corelli (1855 - 1924), novelist. ... Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad (December 3, 1857 – August 3, 1924) was a Polish-born British novelist. ... Antonio Fogazzaro (March 25, 1842 - March 7, 1911) was an Italian novelist born in Vicenza from a rich family. ... Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 - July 21, 1938) was an American writer of western novels. ... mile Zola (April 2, 1840 - September 29, 1902) was an influential French novelist, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France. ... Mary Augusta Ward Mary Augusta Ward (June 11, 1851 - March 26, 1920), was a novelist. ... Richard Doddridge Blackmore (June 7, 1825 - January 20, 1900), usually known as R. D. Blackmore, was one of the most famous English novelists of the his generation. ... The Time Machine is a novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895, later made into two films of the same name. ... H. G. Wells at the door of his house at Sandgate Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946) was a British writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was a famous and popular American humorist, writer and lecturer. ... Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894), was a novelist, poet, and travel writer. ... William Morris, socialist and innovator in the arts & crafts movement William Morris, publisher Davids Charge to Solomon (1882), a stained-glass window by Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris in Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts. ... Marie Corelli (1855 - 1924), novelist. ...

Births

• January 7 - Arnold Ridley, dramatist and actor
• January 14 - John Dos Passos, novelist
• February 12 - Dorothy Frooks, author and publisher
• February 18 - André Breton, Surrealist poet and author
• April 16 - Tristan Tzara, poet and essayist
• May 3 - Dodie Smith, novelist and dramatist
• June 6 - R. C. Sherriff, dramatist
• July 19 - A. J. Cronin, novelist
• July 25 - Josephine Tey, crime writer
• August 28 - Liam O'Flaherty, novelist and short-story writer
• September 24 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (d. 1940)
• October 11 - Roman Jakobson, linguistic theorist
• October 30 - Ruth Gordon, actress and screenwriter (Adam's Rib)

January 7 is the 7th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Arnold Ridley (January 7, 1896 — March 12, 1984) was a British playwright and actor. ... January 14 is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... John Roderigo Dos Passos, born January 14, 1896 in Chicago, Illinois, United States - died September 28, 1970 in Baltimore, Maryland, was a novelist and artist. ... February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Dorothy Frooks (February 12, 1896 - April 13, 1997) was an American author, publisher, military figure and actress. ... February 18 is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... André Breton (February 18, 1896 – September 28, 1966) was a French writer, poet, and surrealist theorist. ... April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). ... Tristan Tzara (April 16, 1896 - December 25, 1963) is the pseudonym of Sami Rosenstock, born in Moineşti, Bacău, Romania. ... May 3 is the 123rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (124th in leap years). ... Dorothy Gladys Dodie Smith (1896-1990), English novelist and playwright. ... June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap years), with 208 days remaining. ... Robert Cedric Sherriff (6 June 1896– 13 November 1975) was an English playwright and screenwriter. ... July 19 is the 200th day (201st in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 165 days remaining. ... A. J. Cronin is the pen-name of the Scottish novelist Archibald Joseph Cronin (July 19, 1896 - January 9, 1981). ... July 25 is the 206th day (207th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 159 days remaining. ... Josephine Tey was a pseudonym of Elizabeth Mackintosh (1896-February 13, 1952), a Scottish author best known for her mystery novels. ... August 28 is the 240th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (241st in leap years), with 125 days remaining. ... Liam OFlaherty (August 28, 1896 - September 7, 1984) was a significant Irish novelist and short story writer and a major figure in the Irish Renaissance. ... September 24 is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years). ... F.Scott Fitzgerald, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an Irish-American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer. ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... October 11 is the 284th day of the year (285th in Leap years). ... Roman Osipovich Jakobson (October 11, 1896 - July 18, 1982) was a Russian thinker who became one of the most influential linguists of the 20th century by pioneering the development of structural analysis of language, poetry, and art. ... October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 62 days remaining. ... Ruth Gordon (October 30, 1896 – August 28, 1985) was an American actress and screenwriter who was perhaps best known for her role as the oversolicitous neighbor in Roman Polanskis adaptation of Ira Levins novel Rosemarys Baby, for which she won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Supporting...

Deaths

• January 8 - Paul Verlaine, poet
• January 17 - Lady Llanover, patron of the arts in Wales
• June 8 - Jules Simon, philosopher
• July 1 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin author
• July 11 - Ernst Curtius, historian
• July 16 - Edmond de Goncourt, dramatist
• August 17 - Mary Abigail Dodge, essayist
• October 3 - William Morris, poet, novelist and designer
• October 8 - George Du Maurier, Trilby author
• November 26 - Coventry Patmore, poet
• December 10 - Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize for Literature