1887 in literature

1887 in literature

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

Table of contents
1 Events
2 New Books
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Awards

Futabatei Shimei writes Drifting Clouds[?], the first modern novel in Japan.

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
Woodlanders[?] - Thomas Hardy

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)