1889 in literature
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See also: 1888 in literature, other events of 1889, 1890 in literature, list of years in literature.
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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
- 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
- January 17 - Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorean writer
- April 23 - Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, novelist
- June 8 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet
- June 15 - Mihai Eminescu, outstanding Romanian poet
- August 5 - Fanny Lewald, novelist
- August 19 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, symbolist writer
- September 23 - Wilkie Collins, novelist
- October 25 - Émile Augier, dramatist
- November 18 - William Allingham, Irish poet
- December 10 - Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian poet