This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1904.
Children and young adults
L. Frank Baum – The Marvelous Land of Oz
Laura Lee Hope (pseudonym) – The Bobsey Twins (first of a series of 72)
Selma Lagerlöf – The Treasure (Herr Arnes penningar)
E. Nesbit – The Phoenix and the Carpet
Beatrix Potter – The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
Leo Tolstoy – Classic Tales and Fables for Children
J. M. Barrie – Peter Pan
Anton Chekhov – The Cherry Orchard
Gabriele D'Annunzio – The Daughter of Iorio
Octave Mirbeau – Farces and Moralities
Erich Mühsam – The Con Men
George Bernard Shaw – John Bull's Other Island
Tsubouchi Shōyō (坪内 逍遥)
Kiri Hitoha (A Paulownia Leaf; performed)
Shinkyoku Urashima (The New Urashima)
J. M. Synge – Riders to the Sea
Frank Wedekind – Pandora's Box
Nik Welter – Die Söhne des Öslings
Stanisław Wyspiański – November Night (Noc listopadowa)
Zinaida Gippius – «Собрание стихов. 1889–1903» (Collected Poems, 1889–1903)
Giovanni Pascoli – Primi poemetti and Primi conviviali
A. C. Bradley – Shakespearean Tragedy
Ernst Haeckel – Kunstformen der Natur
Okakura Kakuzo (岡倉 覚三) – The Awakening of Japan
Thorstein Veblen – The Theory of Business Enterprise
January 14 – Robert Speaight, English actor, biographer and essayist (died 1976)
January 22 – Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (died 1941)
January 23 – Louis Zukofsky, American modernist poet (died 1978)
February 1 – S. J. Perelman, American humorist and author (died 1979)
February 4 – MacKinlay Kantor, American historian (died 1977)
February 19 – Maurice O'Sullivan (Muiris Ó Súilleabháin), Irish memoirist (drowned 1950)
March 26 – Joseph Campbell, American author and expert on mythology (died 1987)
April 27 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet (died 1972)
May 6 – Harry Martinson, Swedish author and Nobel laureate (died 1978)
May 20 – Margery Allingham, English writer of detective fiction (died 1966)
June 16 – Eileen Colwell, English children's librarian (died 2002)
July 13 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and Nobel laureate (died 1973)
August 4 – Witold Gombrowicz, Polish playwright and novelist (died 1969)
September – Abdulla Goran, Kurdish poet (died 1962)
November 28 – Nancy Mitford, English novelist and biographer (died 1973)
December 13 – Glen Byam Shaw, English theatrical director (died 1986)
December 21 – Johannes Edfelt, Swedish poet, translator and critic (died 1997)
December 26 – Alejo Carpentier, Swiss-born Cuban novelist (died 1980)
Unknown date – Soeman Hs, Indonesian (East Indies) novelist and short story writer (died 1999)
January 3 – Larin Paraske, Finnish folk poet (born 1833)
January 20 – Hermann Eduard von Holst, German historian of the United States (born 1841)
February 8 – Alfred Ainger, English biographer and critic (born 1837)
February 22 – Sir Leslie Stephen, English essayist and critic (born 1832)
April 16 – Samuel Smiles, British reformer and writer, advocate of self-help (born 1812)
May 5 – Mór Jókai, Hungarian dramatist and novelist (born 1825)
June 5 – Olivia Langdon Clemens, American editor (born 1845)
July 3 – Theodor Herzl, Austro-Hungarian journalist (cardiac sclerosis, born 1860)
July 14 – Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer (tuberculosis, born 1860)
August 22 – Kate Chopin (Kate O'Flaherty), American novelist and short story writer (brain hemorrhage, born 1850)
September 26 – Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo, 小泉 八雲), Greek-born writer in English on Japan (heart failure, born 1850)
October 11 – Trumbull Stickney, American classicist and poet (brain tumor, born 1874)
October 17 – Ștefan Petică, Romanian Symbolist poet and writer (tuberculosis, born 1877)
November 19 – Hans von Hopfen, German poet and novelist (born 1835)
Nobel Prize for Literature: Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray y Eizaguirre
First Prix Femina: Myriam Harry for La Conquête de Jérusalem
1904 in literature Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
