1890 in literature

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

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 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)
• August 20 – H. P. Lovecraft, horror writer (+ 1937)
• September 10 – Franz Werfel, author (+ 1945)
• September 15 – Agatha Christie, mystery writer (+ 1976)

Deaths

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

Awards