See also: 1896 in literature, other events of 1897, 1898 in literature, list of years in literature. See also: 1895 in literature, other events of 1896, 1897 in literature, list of years in literature. ... 1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... See also: 1897 in literature, other events of 1898, 1899 in literature, list of years in literature. ... This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. ...

Events

• January 2 - Newspapers in London, England erroneously report the death of Mark Twain. It is believed that the rumors began when Twain's cousin had become ill. Twain makes his famous statement "the report of my death was an exaggeration."
• July 25 - Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories.
• The comedy play Im weißen Rößl (The White Horse Inn) by Oscar Blumenthal and Gustav Kadelburg opens in Berlin. Decades later it will be turned into a popular and successful musical play.

January 2 is the 2nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster which contains Big Ben Tower Bridge at night A red double-decker bus crosses Piccadilly Circus. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Religion... 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. ... July 25 is the 206th day (207th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 159 days remaining. ... Jack London, probably born John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916) in San Francisco, California, was an American author of over 50 books. ... A typical gold mining operation, on Bonanza Creek The Klondike Gold Rush was a frenzy of gold rush immigration to and gold prospecting in the Klondike near Dawson City in the Yukon Territory, Canada, after gold was discovered in the late 19th century. ... Im weißen Rößl (English title: White Horse Inn or The White Horse Inn) is a musical comedy set in the picturesque Salzkammergut region of Upper Austria. ... For other White Horse Inns see the White Horse disambiguation page. ...  Berlin (pronounced: , German ) is the capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,426,000 inhabitants (as of January 2005); down from 4. ...

New books

• The Beth Book - Sarah Grand
• Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling
• The Christian - Hall Caine
• Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand
• Dariel - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
• Dear Faustina - Rhoda Broughton
• The Descendant - Ellen Glasgow
• Dracula - Bram Stoker
• The Evolution of the Idea of God - Grant Allen
• The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells
• Jerome - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• Liza of Lambeth - W. Somerset Maugham
• The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' - Joseph Conrad
• A Night in Acadie - Kate Chopin
• What Maisie Knew - Henry James
• The Whirlpool - George Gissing
• The Wooing of Malkatoon - Lew Wallace

Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel by Rudyard Kipling. ... Rudyard Kipling - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Sir Hall Caine (May 14, 1853 - August 31, 1931) was a British novelist and playwright born Thomas Henry Hall Caine at Runcorn, Cheshire, England and educated in Liverpool. ... Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac (March 6, 1619 – July 28, 1655) was a French dramatist born in Paris, who is now best remembered for the many works of fiction which have been woven around his life story. ... Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (April 1, 1868 - December 2, 1918), French poet and dramatist. ... 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. ... Rhoda Broughton (November 29, 1840 – June 5, 1920) was a novelist. ... Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 - November 21, 1945) was an American novelist from Richmond, Virginia. ... Bela Lugosi as Dracula United States stamp Dracula is a fictional character, arguably the most famous vampire in fiction. ... Abraham Bram Stoker (November 8, 1847–April 20, 1912) was an Anglo-Irish writer, best remembered as the author of the influential horror novel Dracula. ... Grant Allen (February 24, 1848 - October 25, 1899) was a scientific writer and novelist; an able upholder of the evolution doctrine and an expounder of Darwinism. ... 1940s paperback edition The Invisible Man is a famous 1897 science fiction novel by H.G. Wells. ... 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. ... 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. ... Liza of Lambeth (1897) was William Somerset Maughams first novel, which he wrote while working as a doctor at a hospital in Lambeth, then a working class district of London. ... W. Somerset Maugham as photographed in 1934 by Carl Van Vechten. ... In Joseph Conrads The Nigger of the Narcissus (1897), the Narcissus is a merchant ship sailing from Bombay to London. ... Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad (December 3, 1857 – August 3, 1924) was a Polish-born British novelist. ... Katherine OFlaherty (1850 or 1851 – August 22, 1904), known by her married name Kate Chopin, was an American author of short stories and novels. ... This article is about the writer; for the politician who was almost his contemporary see Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford. ... George Gissing (November 22, 1857 - December 28, 1903) was a British novelist. ... Lew Wallace Lewis Lew Wallace (April 10, 1827–February 15, 1905) was an American Civil War general, U.S. statesman and author, who is probably best remembered for his historical novel Ben-Hur. ...

Births

• January 11 - Bernard DeVoto, historian
• January 19 - Natacha Rambova, dramatist and wife of Rudolph Valentino
• March 23 - Béla Hamvas, philosopher
• July 1 - Edward Wyndham Tennant, poet
• August 11
  • Enid Blyton, children's author
  • Louise Bogan, poet
• September 25 - William Faulkner, novelist
• October 22 - Marjorie Flack, children's author
• November 1 - Naomi Mitchison, novelist and poet
• November 7 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, screenwriter
• November 8 - Dorothy Day, journalist
• December 3 - Kate O'Brien, novelist and dramatist
• date unknown - Iris Tree, poet

January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Bernard Augustine DeVoto (January 11, 1897 - November 13, 1955) was an American historian and author who specialized in the history of the American West. ... January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Natacha Rambova (January 19, 1897 - May 6, 1966) was a costume and set designer, art director, playwright, silent-film actress, Egyptologist, collector of antiquities, and second wife of the silent film star Rudolph Valentino. ... Rudolph Valentino (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926) was an Italian actor. ... March 23 is the 82nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (83rd in Leap years). ... Béla Hamvas (23 March 1897–7 November 1968) was a Hungarian writer, philosopher, and social critic. ... July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ... Edward Wyndham Tennant (1897 - 1916) was an English war poet, killed at the Battle of the Somme. ... August 11 is the 223rd day of the year (224th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Enid Blyton (1897–1968) Enid Blyton (August 11, 1897–November 28, 1968) was a British childrens author. ... Louise Bogan (August 11, 1897 - 1970) was an American poet. ... September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years). ... William Faulkner, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1954 William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897–July 6, 1962) was a Nobel Prize-winning novelist from Mississippi. ... October 22 is the 295th day of the year (296th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 70 days remaining. ... Marjorie Flack (22 October 1897 - ? 1958) was an artist and writer of childrens picture books. ... November 1 is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 60 days remaining. ... Lady Naomi Margaret Mitchison (nee Haldane; 1 November 1897 – 11 January 1999) was a British novelist and poet. ... November 7 is the 311th day of the year (312th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 54 days remaining. ... Herman Jacob Mankiewicz (November 7, 1897—March 5, 1953) was a Polish-American legendary Hollywood screenwriter. ... November 8 is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 53 days remaining. ... Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 - November 29, 1980), initially Marxist, became Catholic in 1927. ... December 3 is the 337th (in leap years the 338th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Kate OBrien (December 3rd 1897-August 13th 1974) was an Irish Novelist and Playwright. ... Iris Tree (1897 – 1968) was a English poet and actress, described as a bohemian, an eccentric, a wit and an adventuress. ...

Deaths

• March 7 - Harriet Ann Jacobs, African-American writer
• March 11 - Henry Drummond, evangelist and writer on natural history
• June 25 - Margaret Oliphant Oliphant, writer
• July 28 - Étienne Vacherot, philosophical writer
• August 5 - James Hammond Trumbull, philologist
• August 25 - Émile Théodore León Gautier, historian
• September 17 - Ferenc Pulszky, political writer
• October 24 - Francis Turner Palgrave, anthologist
• December 17 - Alphonse Daudet, novelist

March 7 is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (67th in Leap years). ... Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813-1897) was an American abolitionist and novelist. ... 11 March is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (71st in Leap year). ... Henry Drummond (August 17, 1851 - March 11, 1897), Scottish evangelical writer and lecturer, was born in Stirling. ... June 25 is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 189 days remaining. ... Margaret Oliphant Oliphant (April 4, 1828 - June 25, 1897), British novelist and historical writer, daughter of Francis Wilson, was born at Wallyford, near Musselburgh, Midlothian. ... July 28 is the 209th day (210th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 156 days remaining. ... Étienne Vacherot (July 29, 1809 - July 28, 1897), French philosophical writer, was born of peasant parentage at Torcenay, near Langres in the Haute-Marne département of France. ... August 5 is the 217th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (218th in leap years), with 148 days remaining. ... James Hammond Trumbull (December 20, 1821 - August 5, 1897) was an American scholar and philologist. ... August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (238th in leap years), with 128 days remaining. ... Émile Théodore León Gautier (August 8, 1832 - August 25, 1897), French literary historian, was born at Le Havre, France. ... September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years). ... Ferenc Aurel Pulszky (17 September 1814 - 9 September 1897) was a Hungarian politician and writer. ... October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 68 days remaining. ... Francis Turner Palgrave (September 28, 1824 - October 24, 1897) was a British critic and poet. ... December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Alphonse Daudet (May 13, 1840 - December 17, 1897) was a French novelist. ...

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