1900 in literature

See also: 1899 in literature, other events of 1900, 1901 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser is published.
• Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad is published.

New books

• Baa Baa, Black Sheep – Rudyard Kipling
• Eleanor – Mary Augusta Ward
• Il Fuoco (The Flame of Life) – Gabriele D'Annunzio
• The Heart's Highway – Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• The Infidel – Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
• Love and Mr Lewisham – H. G. Wells
• The Master Christian – Marie Corelli
• Monsieur Beaucaire – Booth Tarkington
• Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
• Three Men on the Bummel – Jerome K. Jerome
• Whilomville Stories – Stephen Crane
• The Wild Knight and Other Poems – G. K. Chesterton
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum

Births

• July 18 – Nathalie Sarraute, Russian born Francophone lawyer and writer (d. 1999)
• October 16 – Edward Ardizzone, children's writer and illustrator
• November 8 – Margaret Mitchell (d. 1949), American writer.

Deaths

• January 20 – Richard Doddridge Blackmore (b. 1825), English writer.
• January 29 – John Ruskin, critic
• June 5 – Stephen Crane (b. 1871), American writer.
• August 25 – Friedrich Nietzsche (b. 1844), German philosopher.

Awards