1903 in literature

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• October 24 - Mark Twain moves to Florence, Italy.

• The first Goncourt Prize for French literature is awarded to John Antoine Nau.

• The Ambassadors by Henry James is published. In 2001, the book would be one of three books by James to be on the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

New Books

• The Ambassadors - Henry James
• Enfant à la Balustrade - René Boylesve
• Force ennemie - John Antoine Nau
• The Jewel of Seven Stars - Bram Stoker
• Lady Rose's Daughter - Mary Augusta Ward
• The Pit - Frank Norris
• The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft - George Gissing
• The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers
• Principia Ethica - G. E. Moore
• Said the Fisherman - Marmaduke Pickthall
• The Souls of Black Folk - W. E. B. DuBois
• The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin - Beatrix Potter
• Typhoon and Other Stories - Joseph Conrad
• Verite - Emile Zola
• The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler
• The Wind in the Rose Bush - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Births

• January 7 - Zora Neale Hurston (d. 1960)
• February 11 - Alan Paton, writer (d. 1988)
• February 12 - Georges Simenon, Belgian writer (d. 1989)
• February 22 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (d. 1990)
• July 10 - John Wyndham, British writer (d. 1969)

Deaths

• Theodor Mommsen, German classical scholar and historian
• December 28 - George Gissing

Awards

• Goncourt Prize: John Antoine Nau for Force ennemie
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson