1889 in literature

See also: 1888 in literature, other events of 1889, 1890 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Theodore Roosevelt publishes the first of four volumes of The Winning of the West between 1889–1896

New books

• Ardath – Marie Corelli
• Blind Love – Wilkie Collins
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court – Mark Twain
• The Dark Eyes Of London – Edgar Wallace
• Hale-Weston – Molly Elliot Seawell
• The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
• The Legacy of Cain – Wilkie Collins
• Micah Clarke – Arthur Conan Doyle
• Mike Fletcher – George A. Moore
• The Mystery of Cloomber – Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Nether World – George Gissing
• Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K. Jerome
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Friedrich Nietzsche

Births

• July 5 – Jean Cocteau, writer
• July 17 – Erle Stanley Gardner, author (+ 1970)
• September 23 – Walter Lippmann, writer (+ 1974)

Deaths

• January 17 – Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorean writer
• April 23 – Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, novelist
• June 8 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet
• June 15 – Mihai Eminescu, outstanding Romanian poet
• August 5 – Fanny Lewald, novelist
• August 19 – Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, symbolist writer
• September 23 – Wilkie Collins, novelist
• October 25 – Émile Augier, dramatist
• November 18 – William Allingham, Irish poet
• December 10 – Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian poet

Awards