Calendar of Literary Facts
1899
- Vladimir Nabokov is born
- Elizabeth Bowen is born
- Kate Chopin publishes The Awakening
- Leonid Leonov is born
- Allen Tate is born
- Friedrich A. von Hayek is born
- Wilhelm Roepke is born
- Aspirin is developed, manufactured, and sold by Bayer laboratories
- The Boer War is fought in South Africa, pitting the British against the Dutch Boers
- Knut Hamsun publishes Sult (Hunger)
- Noel Coward is born
- Ernest Hemingway is born
- Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is produced
- Yasunari Kawabata is born
- Miguel Angel Asturias is born
- Jorge Luis Borges is born
- Charles W. Chesnutt publishes The Conjure Woman
- William Butler Yeats publishes The Wind Among the Reeds
- Simon Pokagon dies
- E. B. White is born
- Ngaio Marsh is born
- Henri Becque dies (April 12)
- Horatio Alger, Jr. dies (July 18)
- Hart Crane is born (July 21)
- Lynn Riggs is born (August 31)
