1863 in literature

See also: 1862 in literature, other events of 1863, 1864 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New books

• Aurora Floyd – Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius and His Achievements – William Wells Brown
• Capitan Fracassa – Theophile Gauthier
• The Cossacks – Leo Tolstoy
• Cudjo's Cave – John Townsend Trowbridge
• Eleanor's Victory – Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Five Weeks in a Balloon – Jules Verne
• The House by the Churchyard – Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Life of Jesus – Ernest Renan
• The Man Without a Country – Edward Everett Hale
• Marian Grey – Mary Jane Holmes
• Romola – George Eliot
• Sylvia's Lovers – Elizabeth Gaskell
• The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley

Births

• March 12 – Gabriele D'Annunzio, poet
• August 7 – Gene Stratton Porter, American novelist and naturalist
• November 1 – Arthur Morrison

Deaths

• September 17 – Alfred de Vigny, author

Awards