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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 (died 1973)
- February 8 - Ralph Chubb, gay poet and printer (died 1960)
- February 22 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, writer (died 1950)
- February 23 - Agnes Smedley, journalist and writer (died 1950)
- March 18 - Robert P. Tristram Coffin, poet, essayist, novelist (died 1955)
- March 22 - Karel Pol ek, writer, humorist, journalist (died 1944)
- July 1 - James M. Cain, author, newspaperman (died 1977)
- October 9 - Ivo Andri (died 1975), Serbo-Croatian novelist - winner, 1961 Nobel Prize for Literature
Deaths - January 20 - Christopher Pearse Cranch, poet and magazine editor (born 1813)
- January 28 - Gustav Zerffi, journalist (born 1820)
- March 26 - Walt Whitman, American poet (born 1819)
- July 10 - Rudolf Westphal, classical scholar (born 1826)
- July 15 - Thomas Cooper, Chartist poet (born 1805)
- July 18 - Rose Terry Cooke, poet and novelist (born 1827)
- August 25 - Richard Lewis Nettleship, philosopher (born 1846)
- September 7 - John Greenleaf Whittier, Quaker poet (born 1807)
- October 17 - David Edelstadt, anarchist poet (born 1866)
- October 21 - Anne Charlotte Leffler, novelist and dramatist (born 1849)
- October 24 - Anton Gindely, historian (born 1829)
- December 27 - Orange Judd, editor and publisher (born 1822)
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