Events First Nobel Prize for Literature awarded. October 23 - Mark Twain receives an honorary doctor of literature degree from Yale University. October - Mark Twain moves to Riverdale, New York The Three Sisters drama by Anton Chekov Gilbert Keith Chesterton marries Frances Blogg. Kim by Rudyard Kipling is published. In 2001, the book would be listed as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. New Books The Aerial Village - Jules Verne La Becquée - René Boylesve Bubu de Montparnasse - Charles-Louis Philippe Claudine à Paris - Colette The Crisis - Winston Churchill The Eternal City - Hall Caine The House with the Green Shutters - George Douglas Kim - Rudyard Kipling My Brilliant Career - Miles Franklin The Octopus - Frank Norris Travail - Emile Zola Sister Theresa - George A. Moore Up from Slavery - Booker T. Washington Births January 31 - Marie Luise Kaschnitz, writer (+ 1974) April 10 - Anna Kavan, author December 16 - Margaret Mead, cultural antropologist and author (+ 1978) Deaths June 9 - Walter Besant, novelist June 10 - Robert Buchanan, writer July 7 - Johanna Spyri, author Awards Nobel Prize for Literature: Sully Prudhomme
Deaths June 9 - Walter Besant, novelist June 10 - Robert Buchanan, writer July 7 - Johanna Spyri, author Awards Nobel Prize for Literature: Sully Prudhomme