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

Events

• ''Ermete Novelli establishes the Casa di Goldoni at Rome, in imitation of the Comédie Française.

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
• Le tigri di Mompracem (Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem) - Emilio Salgari
• Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
• Love and Mr Lewisham - H. G. Wells
• The Master Christian - Marie Corelli
• Monsieur Beaucaire - Booth Tarkington
• A New Wonderland - L. Frank Baum
• Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
• Three Men on the Bummel - Jerome K. Jerome
• Unleavened Bread - Robert Grant
• Whilomville Stories - Stephen Crane
• The Wild Knight and Other Poems - G. K. Chesterton
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum

New drama

• Anton Chekhov - Uncle Vanya
• August Strindberg - The Dance of Death (Dödsdansen)

Births

• January 9 - Emmanuel D'Astier, journalist
• February 19 - Giorgos Seferis, poet
• February 22 - Sean O'Faolain, short story writer
• April 19 - Richard Hughes, novelist
• April 24 - Elizabeth Goudge, novelist and children's author
• May 1 - Ignazio Silone, novelist
• June 29 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, novelist
• July 18 - Nathalie Sarraute, Russian born Francophone lawyer and writer (d. 1999)
• July 24 - Zelda Fitzgerald, wife and inspiration of F. Scott Fitzgerald
• September 7 - Taylor Caldwell, novelist
• September 9 - James Hilton, novelist
• October 16 - Edward Ardizzone, children's writer and illustrator
• November 8 - Margaret Mitchell (d. 1949), Gone with the Wind author.
• November 19 - Anna Seghers, novelist
• December 16 - V. S. Pritchett, short story writer

Deaths

• January 20 - Richard Doddridge Blackmore (b. 1825), English writer.
• January 29 - John Ruskin, critic
• January 31 - John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, nemesis of Oscar Wilde
• February 23 - Ernest Dowson, poet
• April 23 - Charles Isaac Elton, historian
• June 3 - Mary Kingsley, travel writer
• June 4 - Edwards Amasa Park, theologian
• June 5 - Stephen Crane (b. 1871), American writer.
• August 16 - José Maria Eça de Queiroz, novelist
• August 25 - Friedrich Nietzsche (b. 1844), German philosopher.
• August 28 - Henry Sidgwick, philosopher
• November 30 - Oscar Wilde, poet and dramatist

Awards

1900 books

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