1887 in literature

See also: 1886 in literature, other events of 1887, 1888 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Futabatei Shimei writes Drifting Clouds, the first modern novel in Japan.

New books

• Allan Quatermain – H. Rider Haggard
• Cut by the County – Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• The Deemster – Hall Caine
• Un dilemme, En Rade – Joris-Karl Huysmans
• Drifting Clouds – Futabatei Shimei
• Jess – H. Rider Haggard
• Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
• La Terre – Emile Zola
• She – H. Rider Haggard
• A Study in Scarlet – Arthur Conan Doyle
• Thelma – Marie Corelli
• The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy

Births

• February 1 – Charles Nordhoff, author (+ 1947)
• February 3 – Georg Trakl, poet (+ 1914)
• February 11  – John van Melle, South African writer
• February 18 – Nikos Kazantzakis, poet (+ 1957)
• March 3 – Rupert Brooke, poet
• March 14 – Sylvia Beach, publisher
• June 2 – Orrick Johns, poet & playwright
• September 1 – Blaise Cendrars, writer (+ 1961)

Deaths

Awards