US philosopher William James publishes his influential book The Varieties of Religious Experience

Helen Keller's The Story of My Life begins publication in serial form

US author Jack London publishes a novel, The Call of the Wild, in which a huge pet dog has alarming adventures

US author W.E.B. Du Bois publishes his first collection of essays, The Souls of Black Folk

The Pit, the second volume of an uncompleted trilogy by US novelist Frank Norris, is published posthumously

Helen Keller overcomes deafness and blindness to graduate cum laude at Radcliffe College in the USA

Edith Wharton publishes the novel that brings her fame and fortune, The House of Mirth

US philosopher George Santayana publishes the first of the five volumes of his Life of Reason

Thomas Dixon's popular novel The Clansman presents the Ku Klux Klan in heroic terms

Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle, a hard-hitting novel about the Chicago meat-packing industry

US philosopher William James publishes Pragmatism: a New Name for Old Ways of Thinking

Jack London's novel Iron Heel foresees a future repressive capitalist regime in the USA

Ezra Pound's first book of poems, A Lume Spento, is published in Italy

Lucy Maud Montgomery's first novel, Anne of Green Gables, brings her instant fame and fortune

Jack London publishes his most autobiographical novel, Martin Eden

Frances Hodgson Burnett publishes The Secret Garden, which becomes a classic of children's literature

Renascence is the title poem in college student Edna St Vincent Millay's first published collection

In O Pioneers Willa Cather finds her major theme, life on the frontier

In Pollyanna Eleanor Porter introduces an immensely successful character, the irrepressibly optimistic orphan Pollyanna Whittier

US poet Robert Frost publishes his first book of poems, A Boy's Will

Edith Wharton's novel The Custom of the Country begins publication in serial form

Tarzan makes his first appearance in Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel Tarzan of the Apes

The first issue of the weekly journal The New Republic is published in the USA

The poem 'Mending Wall' features in Robert Frost's collection North of Boston

Margaret Anderson publishes in Chicago the first issue of The Little Review, a monthly literary magazine