1890 in literature

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

New Books

• The Way of Many Rivers (poetry) - Edwin James Brady
• Little Jarvis - Molly Wlliot Seawell
• One Life, One Love - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Alas! - Rhoda Broughton
• A Hazard of New Fortunes - William Dean Howells
• At Fault - Kate Chopin
• The Light That Failed - Rudyard Kipling
• The Firm of Girdlestone - Arthur Conan Doyle
• Wormwood - Marie Corelli
• The Bondman - Hall Caine
• The Scapegoat - Hall Caine

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 15 - Agatha Christie, mystery writer (+ 1976)

Deaths

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