This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1896.
Children and young people
R. D. Blackmore – Tales from the Telling House
Christabel R. Coleridge – Minstrel Dick. A Tale of the XIVth Century
George Ade – Artie
Anton Chekhov – The Seagull
Georges Feydeau – Le Dindon
Henrik Ibsen – John Gabriel Borkman
Alfred Jarry – Ubu Roi
Hilaire Belloc
The Bad Child's Book of Beasts
Verses and Sonnets
Richard Dehmel – Weib und Welt
A. E. Housman – A Shropshire Lad
Robert Louis Stevenson – Songs of Travel, and Other Verses
See also 1896 in poetry
Theodor Herzl – Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State)
Charles Monroe Sheldon – In His Steps: 'What Would Jesus Do?'
Andrew Dickson White – A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
January 7 – Arnold Ridley, English dramatist and actor (died 1984)
January 9 – Eleanor Graham, English children's writer and editor (died 1984)
January 14 – John Dos Passos, American novelist (died 1970)
February 12 – Dorothy Frooks, American author and publisher (died 1997)
February 18 – André Breton, French Surrealist poet and author (died 1966)
March 10 – Nancy Cunard, English patron of the arts (died 1965)
April 16 – Tristan Tzara, Romanian-French poet and essayist (died 1963)
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)
July 19 – A. J. Cronin, Scottish novelist (died 1981)
July 25 – Josephine Tey, Scottish crime writer (died 1952)
August 28 – Liam O'Flaherty, Irish novelist and short-story writer (died 1984)
September 4 – Antonin Artaud, French theater director (died 1948)
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)
September 24 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (died 1940)
October 11 – Roman Jakobson, Russian linguistic theorist (died 1982)
October 30 – Ruth Gordon, American actress and screenwriter (died 1985)
December – Sandu Tudor, Romanian poet, journalist and theologian (died 1962)
Unknown date – Edith Ditmas, English archivist, historian and writer (died 1986)
January 8 – Paul Verlaine, French poet (born 1844)
January 17 – Lady Llanover, Welsh writer and patron of the arts (born 1802)
February 26 – Arsène Houssaye, French novelist, poet and man of letters (born 1815)
March 22 – Ludwig Laistner, German novelist, mythologist, and literary historian (born 1845)
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)
July 1 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, American novelist (born 1811)
July 11 – Ernst Curtius, German historian (born 1814)
July 16 – Edmond de Goncourt, French critic and founder of Prix Goncourt (born 1822)
July 23 – Mary Dickens, English memoirist, editor and novelist (born 1838)
August 17 – Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton), American essayist (born 1833)
October 3 – William Morris, English poet, novelist and designer (born 1834)
October 8 – George du Maurier, English cartoonist and novelist (born 1834)
November 26
Mathilde Blind, German-born English poet (born 1841)
Coventry Patmore, English poet (born 1823)
December 10 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish founder of the Nobel prizes (born 1833 in literature)
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