1896 in literature

See also: 1895 in literature, other events of 1896, 1897 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Final volume of Theodore Roosevelt's The Winning of the West.
• The Seagull, a new drama by Anton Chekhov

New Books

• La Soirée avec M. Teste - Paul Valéry
• The Country of the Pointed Firs - Sarah Orne Jewett
• L' empreinte - Edouard Estaunie
• In His Steps: 'What Would Jesus Do?' - Rev. Charles Monroe Sheldon
• The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
• Madelon - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• Le Médecin des dames de néans - René Boylesve
• The Mighty Atom - Marie Corelli
• The Murder of Delicia - Marie Corelli
• An Outcast of the Islands - Joseph Conrad
• The Patriot - Antonio Fogazzaro
• Red Men and White - Owen Wister
• Rome - Emile Zola
• Sir George Tressady - Mary Augusta Ward
• Tales from the Telling House - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
• The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
• Tom Sawyer, Detective - Mark Twain
• Weir of Hermiston - Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Well at the World's End - William Morris
• Ziska - Marie Corelli

Births

• September 24 - F Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (+ 1940)

Deaths

• July 1 - Harriet Beecher Stowe
• July 16 - Edmond de Goncourt
• October 8 - George Du Maurier
• December 10 - Alfred Nobel