1897 in literature
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See also: 1896 in literature, other events of 1897, 1898 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- January 2 - Newspapers in London, England erroneously report the death of Mark Twain. It is believed that the rumors began when Twain's cousin had become ill. Twain makes his famous statement "the report of my death was an exaggeration."
- July 25 - Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories.
- The comedy play Im weißen Rößl (The White Horse Inn) by Oscar Blumenthal and Gustav Kadelburg opens in Berlin. Decades later it will be turned into a popular and successful musical play.
New books
- The Beth Book - Sarah Grand
- Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling
- The Christian - Hall Caine
- Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand
- Dariel - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Dear Faustina - Rhoda Broughton
- The Descendant - Ellen Glasgow
- Dracula - Bram Stoker
- The Evolution of the Idea of God - Grant Allen
- The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells
- Jerome - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- Liza of Lambeth - W. Somerset Maugham
- The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' - Joseph Conrad
- A Night in Acadie - Kate Chopin
- What Maisie Knew - Henry James
- The Whirlpool - George Gissing
- The Wooing of Malkatoon - Lew Wallace
Births
- January 11 - Bernard DeVoto, historian
- January 19 - Natacha Rambova, dramatist and wife of Rudolph Valentino
- March 23 - Béla Hamvas, philosopher
- July 1 - Edward Wyndham Tennant, poet
- August 11
- Enid Blyton, children's author
- Louise Bogan, poet
- September 25 - William Faulkner, novelist
- October 22 - Marjorie Flack, children's author
- November 1 - Naomi Mitchison, novelist and poet
- November 7 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, screenwriter
- November 8 - Dorothy Day, journalist
- December 3 - Kate O'Brien, novelist and dramatist
- date unknown - Iris Tree, poet
Deaths
- March 7 - Harriet Ann Jacobs, African-American writer
- March 11 - Henry Drummond, evangelist and writer on natural history
- June 25 - Margaret Oliphant Oliphant, writer
- July 28 - Étienne Vacherot, philosophical writer
- August 5 - James Hammond Trumbull, philologist
- August 25 - Émile Théodore León Gautier, historian
- September 17 - Ferenc Pulszky, political writer
- October 24 - Francis Turner Palgrave, anthologist
- December 17 - Alphonse Daudet, novelist