1890 in literature
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See also: 1889 in literature, other events of 1890, 1891 in literature, list of years in literature.
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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 Influence of Sea Power upon History - Alfred Thayer Mahan
- 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)
- May 15 - Katherine Anne Porter, journalist and novelist
- May 20 - Allan Nevins, historian and journalist
- August 20 - H. P. Lovecraft, horror writer (+ 1937)
- August 28 - Ivor Gurney, war poet and composer
- September 10 - Franz Werfel, author (+ 1945)
- September 15 - Agatha Christie, mystery writer (+ 1976)
- September 24 - A. P. Herbert, humorist and novelist
- November 25 - Isaac Rosenberg, war poet
Deaths
- September 18 - Dion Boucicault, dramatist
- October 19 - Sir Richard Burton, author
- October 26 - Carlo Collodi, Italian writer, the creator of Pinocchio
- December 29 - Octave Feuillet, novelist and dramatist
