1900 in literature


This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1900.

Events

Uncertain dates

Fiction


Uncertain dates
  • Berdakh, Uzbek poet
  • Gustav Jacob Born, German medical author and histologist

    In literature

  • February 14 – The action of Joan Lindsay's novel Picnic at Hanging Rock takes place.
  • July
  • *The main action of L. P. Hartley's novel The Go-Between takes place.
  • *Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons" perhaps takes place at this time.
  • August – The action of Joe R. Lansdale's novel The Big Blow takes place around this time.
  • Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes is set in this year.
  • Zora Neale Hurston's play Color Struck opens in this year.