1887 in literature

See also: 1886 in literature, other events of 1887, 1888 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Futabatei Shimei writes Drifting Clouds, the first modern novel in Japan.

New Books

• Allan Quatermain - H. Rider Haggard
• Cut by the County - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• The Deemster - Hall Caine
• Un dilemme, En Rade - Joris-Karl Huysmans
• Drifting Clouds - Futabatei Shimei
• Jess - H. Rider Haggard
• Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
• La Terre - Emile Zola
• She - H. Rider Haggard
• A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle
• Thelma - Marie Corelli
• The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy

Births

• February 1 - Charles Nordhoff, author (+ 1947)
• February 3 - Georg Trakl, poet (+ 1914)
• February 11 - John van Melle, South African writer
• February 18 - Nikos Kazantzakis, poet (+ 1957)
• March 3 - Rupert Brooke, poet
• March 14 - Sylvia Beach, publisher
• June 2 - Orrick Johns, poet & playwright
• September 1 - Blaise Cendrars, writer (+ 1961)

Deaths

Awards