1890 in literature

See also: 1889 in literature, other events of 1890, 1891 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New books

• Alas! - Rhoda Broughton
• At Fault - Kate Chopin
• The Bondman - Hall Caine
• The Firm of Girdlestone - Arthur Conan Doyle
• A Hazard of New Fortunes - William Dean Howells
• The Light That Failed - Rudyard Kipling
• Little Jarvis - Molly Elliot Seawell
• One Life, One Love - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
• The Scapegoat - Hall Caine
• The Sign of Four - Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Squatter's Dream - Rolf Boldrewood
• The Way of Many Rivers (poetry) - Edwin James Brady
• Wormwood - Marie Corelli

Births

• February 10 - Boris Pasternak author (+ 1960)
• February 11 - John de Vries , writer
• March 11 - Vannevar Bush, author (+ 1974)
• August 20 - H. P. Lovecraft, horror writer (+ 1937)
• September 10 - Franz Werfel, author (+ 1945)
• September 15 - Agatha Christie, mystery writer (+ 1976)

Deaths

• October 19 - Sir Richard Burton, author
• October 26 - Carlo Collodi, Italian writer, the creator of Pinocchio

Awards