Calendar of Literary Facts
1890
- Frances Goodrich is born
- Conrad Richter is born
- J. G. Frazer publishes The Golden Bough
- The first motion-picture shows open, in New York
- Literature of Decadence flourishes in England
- Jean Rhys is born
- Poems of Emily Dickinson is published
- Boris Pasternak is born
- Katherine Anne Porter is born
- Agatha Christie is born
- Karel Čapek is born (January 9)
- H. P. Lovecraft is born (August 20)
