The year 1892 in literature involved some significant new books.
Events
New books
New drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
- January 3 - J. R. R. Tolkien, author
- February 8 - Ralph Chubb, gay poet and printer
- February 22 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, writer
- February 23 - Agnes Smedley, journalist and writer (d. 1950)
- March 18 - Robert P. Tristram Coffin, poet, essayist, novelist
- March 22 - Karel Poláček, writer, humorist, journalist (d. 1944)
- July 1 - James M. Cain, author, newspaperman
- October 9 - Ivo Andrić (d.1975), Serbo-Croatian novelist - winner, 1961 Nobel Prize for Literature
Deaths
- January 20 - Christopher Pearse Cranch, poet and magazine editor
- March 26 - Walt Whitman, American poet
- July 10 - Rudolf Westphal, classical scholar
- July 18 - Rose Terry Cooke, poet and novelist
- August 25 - Richard Lewis Nettleship, philosopher
- September 7 - Greenleaf Whittier, Quaker poet
- October 17 - David Edelstadt, anarchist poet
- October 21 - Anne Charlotte Leffler, novelist and dramatist
- October 24 - Anton Gindely, historian
- December 27 - Orange Judd, editor and publisher
- date unknown
Awards
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