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1902 in literature
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
- - 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 20 - Nazim Hikmet, lyricist and dramatist († 1963)
- February 19 – Kay Boyle, writer, educator, political activist (d. 1992)
- February 27 - John Steinbeck writer (+ 1968)
- August 16 – Georgette Heyer, British novelist (d. 1974)
- August 19 - Ogden Nash, poet(+ 1971)
Deaths
- May 6 - Bret Harte, author, poet
- June 10 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet
- June 18 - Samuel Butler, novelist
- September 29 - Emile Zola, French author
- October 25 - Frank Norris, novelist
Awards
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen
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