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1900
 
    
Frank Baum introduces children to Oz, in his book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz       
1900
 
   
After a prodigiously productive career as novelist and journalist, Stephen Crane dies of tuberculosis at the age of 28      
1900
 
    
Jack London's first collection of stories, The Son of the Wolf, brings him a wide readership       
1900
 
    
Theodore Dreiser's first novel, Sister Carrie, receives no publicity because his publisher, Frank Doubleday, considers it immoral       
1900
 
    
The Voice of the People is the first of Ellen Glasgow's novels set in her native state, Virginia       
1900
 
    
Joseph Conrad publishes his novel Lord Jim about a life of failure and redemption in the far East       
1901
 
    
Thomas Mann's first novel, Buddenbrooks, brings him immediate success       
1901
 
    
Beatrix Potter publishes at her own expense The Tale of Peter Rabbit       
1901
 
    
Rudyard Kipling's experiences of India are put to good use in his novel Kim       
Rudyard Kipling, by Sir Philip Burne-Jones, 1899
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1901
 
    
Frank Norris publishes The Octopus, the first of a projected trilogy of novels set in Southern California