Events Anton Chekov's new drama, Uncle Vanya New Books The Awakening - Kate Chopin Blix - Frank Norris The Conjure Woman - Charles Waddell Chesnutt demoiselle Cloque - René Boylesve Fecondite - Emile Zola Foes in law - Rhoda Broughton Foma Gordyeeff - Maxim Gorky The Game and the Candle - Rhoda Broughton The Golden Canon - G.A. Henty His Darling Sin - Mary Elizabeth Braddon McTeague - Frank Norris The Man with the Twisted Lip - Arthur Conan Doyle A Message to Garcia - Elbert Hubbard Old Chester Tales - Margaret Deland Red Pottage - Mary Cholmondeley Resurrection - Leo Tolstoy The School and Society - John Dewey La terre qui meurt - René Bazin To London Town - Arthur Morrison Dom Casmurro - Machado de Assis Births April 22 - Vladimir Nabokov, novelist (+ 1977) July 21 - Ernest Hemingway, writer (+ 1961) December 16 - Noel Coward, playwright (+ 1973) Deaths July 18 - Horatio Alger, Jr August 29 - Catharine Parr Traill, English-born author of "Canadiana" October 25 - Grant Allen, author Awards