Calendar of Literary Facts
1900
- Theodore Dreiser publishes Sister Carrie
- The Oxford Book of English Verse is first published
- The Boxer Rebellion takes place in China
- Saki publishes The Rise of the Russian Empire
- Symbolism flourishes in the world of British and American letters
- Max Planck discovers the quantum nature of energy
- Joseph Conrad publishes Lord Jim
- The first Zeppelin is test-flown
- Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins publishes Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South
- The Commonwealth of Australia, a British possession, is established
- L. Frank Baum publishes The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- Carl Spitteler publishes his four-volume work Olympischer Frühling
- Basil Bunting is born (March 1)
- Thomas Wolfe is born (October 3)
- Julian Green is born (September 6)
- Stephen Crane dies (June 6)
- Roberto Arlt is born (April 7)
- Taylor Caldwell is born (September 7)
- Margaret Mitchell is born (November 8)
- James Hilton is born (September 9)
- Giorgos Seferiadis (Giorgos Seferis) is born (March 13)
- Edward (Jeffrey Irving) Ardizzone is born (October 16)
- Albert Hackett is born (February 16)
- V. S. Pritchett is born (December 16)
- Richard Hughes is born (April 19)
- Luis Buñuel is born (February 22)
- Friedrich Nietzsche dies (August 25)
- Jacques Audiberti is born (March 25)
- Eyvind Johnson is born (July 29)
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery is born (June 29)
- Oscar Wilde dies (November 30)
