1892 in literature

See also: 1891 in literature, other events of 1892, 1893 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper becomes the second novel by an African-American woman published in the United States

New books

• The American Claimant – Mark Twain
• Barrack-Room Ballads poetry including Gunga Din – Rudyard Kipling
• Born in Exile – George Gissing
• Children of the Ghetto – Israel Zangwill
• The Downfall – Emile Zola
• The Fate of Fenella – Hall Caine
• Grania: The Story of an Island – Emily Lawless
• The History of David Grieve - Mary Ward
• Lady Windermere's Fan – Oscar Wilde (play)
• Mistress Branican – Jules Verne
• Mrs. Bligh – Rhoda Broughton
• Shadows Uplifted – Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
• The Conquest of Bread – Peter Kropotkin
• The Venetians – Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• The Wrecker – Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The Adventure of the Speckled Band – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Births

• January 3 – J. R. R. Tolkien, author
• February 8 – Ralph Chubb, gay poet and printer
• February 22 – Edna St. Vincent Millay, writer
• February 23 – Agnes Smedley, journalist and writer (d. 1950)
• March 18 – Robert P. Tristram Coffin, poet, essayist, novelist
• July 1 – James M. Cain, author, newspaperman
• October 9 – Ivo Andrić (d.1975), Serbo-Croatian novelist – winner, 1961 Nobel Prize for Literature

Deaths

• March 26 – Walt Whitman, American poet

Awards