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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1896.

Events

New books

=Fiction=

=Children and young people=

=Drama=

=Poetry=

  • Hilaire Belloc
  • The Bad Child's Book of Beasts{{cite book | last = Knowles | first = Elizabeth | title = The Oxford dictionary of quotations | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford New York | year = 1999 | isbn = 9780198601739 | page=63}}
  • Verses and Sonnets
  • Richard Dehmel – Weib und Welt
  • Paul Laurence Dunbar – Lyrics of Lowly Life, Majors and Minors and "We Wear the Mask"
  • A. E. Housman – A Shropshire Lad
  • Robert Louis Stevenson (died 1894) – Songs of Travel, and Other Verses{{cite book|author=Robert Louis Stevenson|title=Songs Of Travel And Other Verses|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8CMXyAEACAAJ|date=2 August 2019|publisher=Independently Published|isbn=978-1-08-607518-2}}
  • See also 1896 in poetry

=Non-fiction=

Births

  • January 7 – Arnold Ridley, English dramatist and actor (died 1984){{cite book | last = Emden | first = Richard | title = Famous, 1914-1918 | publisher = Pen & Sword Military | location = Barnsley | year = 2009 | isbn = 9781848841970 | page=63}}
  • January 9 – Eleanor Graham, English children's writer and editor (died 1984)
  • January 12 – Nobuko Yoshiya, Japanese romantic novelist (died 1973)
  • January 14 – John Dos Passos, American novelist (died 1970){{cite book|author=Jay Parini|title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nMhMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA394|year=2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-515653-9|pages=394}}
  • January 21 – Guy Gilpatric, American short story writer (suicide 1950)
  • February 12 – Dorothy Frooks, American author and publisher (died 1997)
  • February 18 – André Breton, French Surrealist poet and author (died 1966){{cite book|author=André Breton|title=André Breton: Selections|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nLQRXzQ4NgoC&pg=PA165|date=October 2003|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-23954-8|pages=165}}
  • March 1 – Moriz Seeler, German writer, poet, film producer and man of the theatre (died 1942)
  • March 10 – Nancy Cunard, English patron of the arts (died 1965)
  • March 22 – Sigge Stark, born Signe Petersén, Swedish writer (died 1964){{cite web |last1=Leffler |first1=Yvonne |title=Signe Björnberg (Sigge Stark) |url=https://www.skbl.se/sv/artikel/SigneBjornbergSiggeStark |website=Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon |access-date=13 June 2021 |language=Swedish |date=8 March 2018 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190731154953/https://skbl.se/sv/artikel/SigneBjornbergSiggeStark |archive-date=2019-07-31 }}
  • April 16 – Tristan Tzara, Romanian-French poet and essayist (died 1963)Marius Hentea, TaTa Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2014. {{OCLC|1090828679}} Pages 1-2
  • April 23 – Margaret Kennedy, English novelist and playwright (died 1967)
  • May 1 – Mihai Ralea, Romanian critic and sociologist of literature (died 1964)
  • May 3 – Dodie Smith, English novelist and dramatist (died 1990)
  • May 9 – Austin Clarke, Irish poet, playwright and novelist (died 1974)
  • May 27 – Joanna Cannan, English writer of children's pony books and detective novels (died 1961)
  • June 6 – R. C. Sherriff, English dramatist (died 1975){{cite book|author=Frank Northen Magill|title=Critical Survey of Drama: Authors A-Z|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JrA5AAAAMAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Salem Press|isbn=978-0-89356-380-6|page=1784}}
  • June 18 – Philip Barry, American playwright (died 1949){{cite book | last = Demastes | first = William | title = American playwrights, 1880-1945 : a research and production sourcebook | publisher = Greenwood Press | location = Westport, Conn | year = 1995 | isbn = 9780313286384 | page=29}}
  • July 4 – Mao Dun, Chinese novelist, cultural critic, and Minister of Culture (died 1981){{Cite journal|last=McDougall|first=Bonnie S.|date=December 1998|title=Disappearing women and disappearing men in may fourth narrative: a post-feminist survey of short stories by Mao Dun, Bing Xin, Ling Shuhua and Shen Congwen|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357829808713209|journal=Asian Studies Review|volume=22|issue=4|pages=427–458|doi=10.1080/10357829808713209|issn=1035-7823}}
  • July 19 – A. J. Cronin, Scottish novelist (died 1981){{cite book|title=The Encyclopedia Americana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WBNZAAAAYAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Grolier Incorporated|isbn=978-0-7172-0131-0|page=240}}
  • July 25 – Josephine Tey, Scottish crime writer (died 1952){{cite book|author=Jennifer Morag Henderson|title=Josephine Tey: A Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7nf3DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT46|date=17 March 2016|publisher=Sandstone Press Ltd|isbn=978-1-910124-71-0|pages=46}}
  • August 27 – Kenji Miyazawa, Japanese poet (died 1933)
  • August 28 – Liam O'Flaherty, Irish novelist and short-story writer (died 1984)
  • September 4 – Antonin Artaud, French theatre director (died 1948){{cite book|author=Antonin Artaud|title=Artaud Anthology.|publisher=City Lights Publishers|year=1965|page=83}}
  • September 5 – Heimito von Doderer, Austrian author (died 1966)
  • September 22 – Uri Zvi Grinberg, Austro-Hungarian-born Israeli poet writing in Yiddish and Hebrew (died 1981){{cite news| url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990DE7DB1738F933A25756C0A967948260 | work=The New York Times | title=Uri Zvi Greenberg, 83; Hebrew and Yiddish Poet | date=10 May 1981}}
  • September 24 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (died 1940){{cite book | last = Fitzgerald | first = F | title = The beautiful and damned | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford New York | year = 1998 | isbn = 9780191611056 | page=xxxii}}
  • October 11 – Roman Jakobson, Russian linguistic theorist (died 1982)
  • October 22 – José Leitão de Barros, Portuguese playwright and film director (died 1967)
  • October 30 – Ruth Gordon, American actress and screenwriter (died 1985)
  • November 1 – Lawrence Riley, American playwright and screenwriter (died 1974)[https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB091FFF3A5F1B7493C1A91789D95F418785F9 "Lawrence Riley, 78, Wrote '35 Stage Hit"] NY Times obituary.
  • November 4 – J. R. Ackerley, English literary editor (died 1967)
  • December 23 – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Italian novelist (died 1957){{cite book|author=Bernard A. Cook|title=Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia|publisher=Garland|year=2001|ISBN=9780815340584|page=766}}
  • December 27 – Carl Zuckmayer, German writer and playwright (died 1977){{cite book|author=Hans Wagener|title=Carl Zuckmayer Criticism: Tracing Endangered Fame|publisher=Camden House|year=1995|ISBN=9781571130648|page=ix}}
  • December – Sandu Tudor, Romanian poet, journalist and theologian (died 1962)
  • unknown date – Edith Ditmas, English archivist, historian and writer (died 1986)

Deaths

  • January 6 – Thomas W. Knox, American journalist and author, journalist (born 1835){{cite news |title=Death of Col. Thomas W. Knox; The Lotos Club's Ex-Secretary Passes Away Suddenly |newspaper=New York Times |date=January 7, 1896 |page=16 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C05E5D7153EE333A25754C0A9679C94679ED7CF}}
  • January 8 – Paul Verlaine, French poet (born 1844){{cite book|author=John Flower|title=Historical Dictionary of French Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kd6tAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA519|date=17 January 2013|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7945-4|pages=519}}
  • January 17 – Lady Llanover, Welsh writer and patron of the arts (born 1802){{cite book|first=Anya|last=Laurence|title=Women of Notes: 1,000 Women Composers Born Before 1900|location=New York|publisher=Richards Rosen Press|year=1978|page=91|oclc=252454075}}
  • January 20 – Graciano López Jaena, Filipino journalist, writer and patriot (born 1856)Yoder, Robert L. (August 7, 1999). [https://www.univie.ac.at/ksa/apsis/aufi/history/jaena.htm Graciano López Jaena]. Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Vienna.
  • February 26 – Arsène Houssaye, French novelist, poet and man of letters (born 1815){{cite EB1911|wstitle= Houssaye, Arsène |volume= 13 | pages = 827–828; end of first para |quote=He died on the 26th of February 1896}}
  • March 21 – Elizabeth Otis Dannelly, American poet (born 1838)
  • March 22 – Ludwig Laistner, German novelist, mythologist and literary historian (born 1845){{NDB|13|422|423|Laistner, Ludwig|Eduard Theiner}}
  • May 11 – Henry Cuyler Bunner, American novelist and poet (born 1855)
  • May 13 – Nora Perry, American poet, journalist and children's author (born 1831)
  • June 8 – Jules Simon, French philosopher (born 1814)
  • June 22 – Sir Augustus Harris, French-born English dramatist and theater manager (born 1852){{cite news |title=Manager Harris Dead |work=The New York Times |date=23 June 1896 |accessdate=21 August 2009 |url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1896/06/23/104158267.pdf |format=PDF}}
  • July 1 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, American novelist (born 1811){{cite book|author1=John Arthur Garraty|author2=Mark Christopher Carnes|title=American National Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cOspAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-512799-7|page=906}}
  • July 11 – Ernst Curtius, German historian (born 1814){{cite book|author=Massachusetts Historical Society|title=Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pT1FAQAAMAAJ|year=1897|publisher=The Society|page=xxii}}
  • July 16 – Edmond de Goncourt, French critic and founder of Prix Goncourt (born 1822){{cite book|author=Frank Northen Magill|title=Critical Survey of Long Fiction: Foreign Language Series|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sTdUnu3AH2oC|year=1984|publisher=Salem Press|isbn=978-0-89356-371-4|page=709}}
  • July 23 – Mary Dickens, English memoirist, editor and novelist (born 1838)
  • August 17 – Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton), American essayist (born 1833)
  • September 23 – Ivar Aasen, Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright, and poet (born 1813){{cite EB1911|wstitle= Aasen, Ivar |volume= 01 |last= Gosse |first= Edmund William |author-link= Edmund William Gosse | pages = 4–5; see page 5 |quote=He died in Christiania on the 23rd of September 1896}}
  • October 3 – William Morris, English poet, novelist and designer (born 1834){{cite book|author=Derek W. Baker|title=The Flowers of William Morris|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wx7rAAAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Chicago Review Press|isbn=978-1-55652-307-6|page=9}}
  • October 8 – George du Maurier, English cartoonist and novelist (born 1834){{cite book|author=T. Martin Wood|title=George Du Maurier: The Satirist of the Victorians|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UNpyUDGGueIC&pg=PT132|year=1954|publisher=Library of Alexandria|isbn=978-1-4655-6655-3|pages=132}}
  • November 23 – Ichiyō Higuchi, Japanese writer (born 1872){{cite book|first1=Melek|last1=Ortabasi|first2=Rebecca L.|last2=Copeland|title=The Modern Murasaki: Writing by Women of Meiji Japan|location=New York|publisher=Columbia University Press|year=2006|page=131|isbn=978-0-23113-775-1}}
  • November 26
  • Mathilde Blind, German-born English poet (born 1841){{cite book|title=Nineteenth Century Prose|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B66LkvKhshUC&pg=PA54|year=1997|publisher=Department of English, U.S. Naval Academy|pages=54}}
  • Coventry Patmore, English poet (born 1823){{cite book|author=Alfred Henry Miles|title=Charles Kingsley to James Thomson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wWVHAQAAMAAJ|year=1898|pages=132–134}}
  • December 10 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish founder of the Nobel prizes (born 1833){{cite book|title=The Georgia Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aPG2FkH1z7wC|year=1995|publisher=University of Georgia|page=12}}

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