This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1902.
Children and young people
L. Frank Baum – The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
J. M. Barrie – The Little White Bird (includes the story "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens")
Edith Ogden Harrison – Prince Silverwings and other fairy tales
William Dean Howells – The Flight of Pony Baker
Rudyard Kipling – Just So Stories for Little Children
Bessie Marchant – Fleckie: A Story of the Desert, etc.
E. Nesbit – Five Children and It
Beatrix Potter – The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Mrs George de Horne Vaizey – A Houseful of Girls
J. M. Barrie – The Admirable Crichton
Clyde Fitch – The Girl with the Green Eyes
Maxim Gorky – The Lower Depths
Haralamb Lecca – Septima. Câiniĭ
Maurice Maeterlinck – Monna Vanna
Frank Wedekind – King Nicolo
William Butler Yeats – Cathleen Ní Houlihan
Edwin James Brady – The Earthen Floor
Walter de la Mare (as Walter Ramal) – Songs of Childhood
Ștefan Petică – Fecioara în alb
Jane Addams – Democracy and Social Ethics
James Allen – As a Man Thinketh
Hilaire Belloc – The Path to Rome
Arthur Conan Doyle – The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct
Michael Fairless – The Roadmender
John A. Hobson – Imperialism: a study
William James – The Varieties of Religious Experience
Bertrand Russell – A Free Man's Worship
William Wynn Westcott – Collectanea Hermetica finishes publication
January 5 – Stella Gibbons, English novelist (died 1989)
January 20 – Nazim Hikmet, Turkish lyricist and dramatist (died 1963)
January 30 – Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born architectural historian (died 1983)
February 1 – Langston Hughes, African-American poet and novelist (died 1967)
February 16 – Ion Călugăru, Romanian novelist, short story writer and journalist (died 1956)
February 19 – Kay Boyle, American writer, educator and political activist (died 1992)
February 27 – John Steinbeck, American novelist and journalist (died 1968)
March 10 – Stefan Inglot, Polish historian (died 1994)
March 29 – Marcel Aymé, French novelist and short-story writer (died 1967)
April 2 – Jan Tschichold, German-born typographer (died 1974)
April 6 – Julien Torma, French poet and dramatist (died 1933)
April 9 – Lord David Cecil, English literary critic and biographer (died 1986)
April 23 – Halldór Laxness, Icelandic novelist (died 1998)
June 5 – Hugo Huppert, Austrian poet, writer and translator (died 1982)
July 10 – Nicolás Guillén, Afro-Cuban poet (died 1989)
July 8 – Gwendolyn B. Bennett, African American writer and artist (died 1981)
August 15 – Katharine Brush, American short story writer (died 1952)
August 16 – Georgette Heyer, English novelist (died 1974)
August 19 – Ogden Nash, American poet and humorist (died 1971)
October 13 – Arna Bontemps, African American poet (died 1973)
October 23 – Dadie Rylands (George Rylands), English Shakespeare scholar (died 1999)
October 26 – Beryl Markham (Beryl Clutterbuck), English-born Kenyan adventurer and memoirist (died 1986)
October 31 – Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet (died 1987)
November 1 – Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet and author (killed in action 1943)
November 2 – Gyula Illyés, Hungarian author (died 1983)
November 29 – Carlo Levi, Italian writer (died 1975)
December 7 – N. Crevedia, Romanian poet, novelist and journalist (died 1978).
December 20 – Jolán Földes, Hungarian novelist and playwright (died 1963)
Unknown date
Felipe Alfau, Spanish-American fiction writer, poet and translator(died 1999)
January 7 – Wilhelm Hertz, German poet and translator (born 1835)
April 6 – Gleb Uspensky, Russian writer (born 1843)
April 20 – Frank R. Stockton, American writer and humorist (born 1834)
May 6 – Bret Harte, American author and poet (born 1836)
June 10 – Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (born 1845)
June 18 – Samuel Butler, English novelist (born 1835)
August 31 – Mathilde Wesendonck, German poet (born 1828)
September 11 – Ernst Dümmler, German historian (born 1830)
September 19 – Masaoka Shiki (正岡 子規), Japanese haiku poet (Pott's disease, born 1867)
September 29
Émile Zola, French novelist (carbon monoxide poisoning, born 1840)
William McGonagall, Scottish doggerel poet (born 1825)
October 7 – George Rawlinson, English historian (born 1812)
October 13 – John George Bourinot, Canadian historian (born 1836)
October 25 – Frank Norris, American novelist (peritonitis, born 1870)
November 16 – G. A. Henty, English historical novelist (born 1832)
Nobel Prize for Literature: Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen
1902 in literature Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
