1889 in literature

Events

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

New Books

• 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

Births

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

Deaths

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

Awards