1899 in literature

Events

• Anton Chekov's new drama, Uncle Vanya[?]

New Books

• The Awakening[?] - Kate Chopin
• Blix[?] - Frank Norris
• The Conjure Woman[?] - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
• demoiselle Cloque[?] - René Boylesve[?]
• Fecondite[?] - Emile Zola
• Foes in law[?] - Rhoda Broughton
• Foma Gordyeeff[?] - Maxim Gorky
• The Game and the Candle[?] - Rhoda Broughton
• The Golden Canon[?] - G.A. Henty[?]
• His Darling Sin[?] - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• McTeague[?] - Frank Norris
• The Man with the Twisted Lip[?] - Arthur Conan Doyle
• A Message to Garcia[?] - Elbert Hubbard[?]
• Old Chester Tales[?] - Margaret Deland[?]
• Red Pottage[?] - Mary Cholmondeley[?]
• Resurrection - Leo Tolstoy
• The School and Society[?] - John Dewey
• La terre qui meurt[?] - René Bazin[?]
• To London Town[?] - Arthur Morrison[?]

Births

• April 22 - Vladimir Nabokov, novelist (+ 1977)
• July 21 - Ernest Hemingway, writer (+ 1961)
• December 16 - Noel Coward, playwright (+ 1973)

Deaths

• July 18 - Horatio Alger, Jr.
• August 29 - Catherine Parr Traill[?], English-born author of "Canadiana"
• October 25 - Grant Allen, author

Awards