Events January 2 - Newspapers in London, England erroneously report the death of Mark Twain. It is believed that the rumors began when Twain's cousin had become ill. Twain makes his famous statement "the report of my death was an exaggeration." July 25 - Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories. New Books The Beth Book - Sarah Grand Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling The Christian - Hall Caine Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand Dariel - Richard Doddridge Blackmore Dear Faustina - Rhoda Broughton The Descendant - Ellen Glasgow Dracula - Bram Stoker The Evolution of the Idea of God - Grant Allen The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells Jerome - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Liza of Lambeth - W. Somerset Maugham The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' - Joseph Conrad A Night in Acadie - Kate Chopin What Maisie Knew - Henry James The Whirlpool - George Gissing The Wooing of Malkatoon - Lew Wallace Births September 25: William Faulkner Deaths March 7 - Harriet Ann Jacobs, African-American writer June 25 - Margaret Oliphant, writer Awards
