1902 in literature
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See also: 1901 in literature, other events of 1902, 1903 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- April - Mark Twain purchases a home in Terrytown, New York.
- June 4 - Mark Twain receives an honorary doctorate of literature degree from Missouri University.
- June - Bertrand Russell writes to Gottlob Frege informing him of the problem that would become known as Russell's paradox.
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is published.
- The Wings of the Dove by Henry James is published.
New books
- Anna of the Five Towns - Arnold Bennett
- The Battle-Ground - Ellen Glasgow
- Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
- The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop - Hamlin Garland
- The Earthen Floor (poetry) - Edwin James Brady
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
- The Hole in the Wall - Arthur Morrison
- The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
- Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling
- Lavinia - Rhoda Broughton
- L'immoraliste - André Gide
- Mrs Craddock - W. Somerset Maugham
- The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci - Dmitri Merejkowski
- The Sport of the Gods - Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Supermaschio - Alfred Jarry
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter
- Temporal Power: A Study in Supremacy - Marie Corelli
- Valley of Decision - Edith Wharton
- The Varieties of Religious Experience - William James
- The Virginian - Owen Wister
- The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
Births
- January 5 - Stella Gibbons, novelist
- January 20 - Nazim Hikmet, lyricist and dramatist (d. 1963)
- January 30 - Nikolaus Pevsner, author of a series of architectural guides to the UK
- February 1 - Langston Hughes, poet, novelist, journalist, etc.
- February 19 – Kay Boyle, writer, educator, political activist (d. 1992)
- February 27 - John Steinbeck writer (d. 1968)
- March 10 - Stefan Iglot, Polish historian
- April 6 - Julien Torma, poet and dramatist
- April 9 - Lord David Cecil, literary critic and biographer
- August 15 - Katharine Brush, short story writer
- August 16 – Georgette Heyer, British novelist (d. 1974)
- August 19 - Ogden Nash, poet(d. 1971)
"October 13 - Arna Bontemps, poet
- October 26 - Beryl Markham, memoirist
Deaths
- May 6 - Bret Harte, author, poet
- June 10 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet
- June 18 - Samuel Butler, novelist
- September 29
- Emile Zola, French author
- William Topaz McGonagall, notoriously bad poet
- October 7 - George Rawlinson, historian
- October 13 - John George Bourinot, Canadian historian
- October 25 - Frank Norris, novelist
- November 16 - G. A. Henty, novelist