1896 in literature
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See also: 1895 in literature, other events of 1896, 1897 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Final volume of Theodore Roosevelt's The Winning of the West.
- The Seagull, a new drama by Anton Chekhov
New books
- La Soirée avec M. Teste - Paul Valéry
- The Country of the Pointed Firs - Sarah Orne Jewett
- L' empreinte - Edouard Estaunie
- In His Steps: 'What Would Jesus Do?' - Rev. Charles Monroe Sheldon
- The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
- Madelon - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- Le Médecin des dames de néans - René Boylesve
- The Mighty Atom - Marie Corelli
- The Murder of Delicia - Marie Corelli
- An Outcast of the Islands - Joseph Conrad
- The Patriot - Antonio Fogazzaro
- Red Men and White - Owen Wister
- Rome - Emile Zola
- Sir George Tressady - Mary Augusta Ward
- Tales from the Telling House - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
- Tom Sawyer, Detective - Mark Twain
- Weir of Hermiston - Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Well at the World's End - William Morris
- Ziska - Marie Corelli
Births
- January 7 - Arnold Ridley, dramatist and actor
- January 14 - John Dos Passos, novelist
- August 28 - Liam O'Flaherty, novelist and short-story writer
- September 24 - F Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (d. 1940)
- October 11 - Roman Jakobson, linguistic theorist
Deaths
- January 8 - Paul Verlaine, poet
- January 17 - Lady Llanover, patron of the arts in Wales
- June 8 - Jules Simon, philosopher
- July 1 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin author
- July 11 - Ernst Curtius, historian
- July 16 - Edmond de Goncourt, dramatist
- August 17 - Mary Abigail Dodge, essayist
- October 3 - William Morris, poet, novelist and designer
- October 8 - George Du Maurier, Trilby author
- November 26 - Coventry Patmore, poet
- December 10 - Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize for Literature