See also: 1899 in literature, other events of 1900, 1901 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
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Births
- January 9 - Emmanuel D'Astier, journalist
- February 19 - Giorgos Seferis, poet
- February 22 - Sean O'Faolain, short story writer
- April 19 - Richard Hughes, novelist
- April 24 - Elizabeth Goudge, novelist and children's author
- May 1 - Ignazio Silone, novelist
- June 29 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, novelist
- July 18 - Nathalie Sarraute, Russian born Francophone lawyer and writer (d. 1999)
- July 24 - Zelda Fitzgerald, wife and inspiration of F. Scott Fitzgerald
- September 7 - Taylor Caldwell, novelist
- September 9 - James Hilton, novelist
- October 16 - Edward Ardizzone, children's writer and illustrator
- November 8 - Margaret Mitchell (d. 1949), Gone with the Wind author.
- November 19 - Anna Seghers, novelist
- December 16 - V. S. Pritchett, short story writer
Deaths
- January 20 - Richard Doddridge Blackmore (b. 1825), English writer.
- January 29 - John Ruskin, critic
- January 31 - John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, nemesis of Oscar Wilde
- February 23 - Ernest Dowson, poet
- April 23 - Charles Isaac Elton, historian
- June 3 - Mary Kingsley, travel writer
- June 4 - Edwards Amasa Park, theologian
- June 5 - Stephen Crane (b. 1871), American writer.
- August 16 - Eça de Queirós, novelist
- August 25 - Friedrich Nietzsche (b. 1844), German philosopher.
- August 28 - Henry Sidgwick, philosopher
- November 30 - Oscar Wilde, poet and dramatist
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