1903 in literature
Overview of the events of 1903 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1903 .
Events
Cover of the Saturday Evening Post The Call of the Wild
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 10 – E. Arnot Robertson , English novelist and broadcaster (died 1961 )February 11 – Alan Paton , South African novelist and activist (died 1988 )February 13 – Georges Simenon , Belgian crime writer (died 1989 )February 17 – Sadegh Hedayat , Iranian-born novelist (suicide 1951 )February 21
February 22 – Morley Callaghan , Canadian writer (died 1990 )February 24
June 8 – Marguerite Yourcenar , Belgian novelist (died 1987 )June 18 – Raymond Radiguet , French author (died 1923 )June 25 – George Orwell , English novelist and journalist (died 1950 )[ 6] July 3 – Oliver Stonor , English novelist (died 1987 )July 10 – John Wyndham , English science fiction writer (died 1969 )[ 7] September 5 – János Kemény , American-born Transylvanian Hungarian writer (died 1971 )September 9 – Edward Upward , English novelist and short story writer (died 2009 )September 10 – Cyril Connolly , English critic and writer (died 1974 )September 14 – Mart Raud , Estonian poet, playwright and writer (died 1980 )October 17
October 28 – Evelyn Waugh , English novelist and critic (died 1966 )December 6 (November 23 OS ) – Gaito Gazdanov , Russian-born novelist (died 1971)December 10
December 13 – Todhunter Ballard , American novelist (died 1980 )December 24 – Nancy Brysson Morrison , Scottish novelist (died 1986 )December 29 – Sergiu Dan , Romanian novelist and journalist (died 1976 )Uncertain dates – Kathleen Lindsay , prolific English-born romance novelist (died 1973 )
Deaths
January 22 – Augustus Hare , English biographer and travel writer (born 1834 )February 8 – Ada Ellen Bayly , English novelist (born 1857 )March 4 – Joseph Henry Shorthouse , English novelist (born 1834 )March 6 – Gaston Paris , French literary critic and scholar (born 1839 )March 8 – Josefina Wettergrund , Swedish writer (born 1830 )March 9 – Minnie Mary Lee , American author of poems, stories, sketches and novels (born 1825 )March 14 – Ernest Legouvé , French dramatist (born 1807 )April 28 — Frances Augusta Conant , American journalist (born 1841 )April 29 – Paul Du Chaillu , French American travel writer (born c. 1831)[ 8] May 12 – Richard Henry Stoddard , American critic and poet (born 1825 )May 24 – Max O'Rell (Léon Paul Blouet), French journalist (born 1847 )June 12 – Claymoor , Romanian fashion and entertainment critic (peptic ulcer; born c. 1842)[ 9] July 11 – W. E. Henley , English poet (tuberculosis, born 1847 )[ 10] August 31 – William Hastie , Scottish theologian (born 1842 )September 1 – Charles Bernard Renouvier , French philosopher (born 1815 )[ 11] October 4 – Otto Weininger , Austrian philosopher (suicide, born 1880 )November 1 – Theodor Mommsen , German classical scholar and historian (born 1817 )[ 12] November 11 — Lavilla Esther Allen , American author (born 1834 )November 19 – Hugh Stowell Scott (Henry Seton Merriman), English novelist (born 1862 )December 28 – George Gissing , English novelist (emphysema, born 1857 )[ 13]
Awards
References
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^ "Biographical Information" . West Chester University. Archived from the original on 2013-01-01. Retrieved 2013-12-04 .^ public domain : Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "Renouvier, Charles Bernard ". Encyclopædia Britannica ^ Harvard Studies in Classical Philology . Harvard University Press. 1992. p. 388. ISBN 9780674379428 ^ Pierre Coustillas, 'Gissing, George Robert (1857–1903) ' ((subscription or UK public library membership required) ), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press , 2004. Accessed 12 July 2024.
