Events New Books Alas - Rhoda Broughton At Fault - Kate Chopin The Bondman - Hall Caine The Firm of Girdlestone - Arthur Conan Doyle A Hazard of New Fortunes - William Dean Howells The Light That Failed - Rudyard Kipling Little Jarvis - Molly Elliot Seawell The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde One Life, One Love - Mary Elizabeth Braddon The Scapegoat - Hall Caine The Squatter's Dream - Rolf Boldrewood The Way of Many Rivers (poetry) - Edwin James Brady Wormwood - Marie Corelli Births February 10 - Boris Pasternak author (+ 1960) February 11 - John de Vries, writer March 11 - Vannevar Bush, author (+ 1974) August 20 - H. P. Lovecraft, horror writer (+ 1937) September 10 - Franz Werfel, author (+ 1945) September 15 - Agatha Christie, mystery writer (+ 1976) Deaths October 19 - Sir Richard Burton, author October 26 - Carlo Collodi, Italian writer, the creator of Pinocchio Awards