Title: 1876 in literature
Content: January 4 – Paola Drigo, Italian writer (died 1938) ; January 12 – Jack London, American writer (died 1916) ; February 11 – Mary Frances Dowdall, English novelist and non-fiction writer (died 1939) ; February 16 – G. M. Trevelyan, English historian (died 1962) ; March 4 – Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (died 1947) ; April 13 – Sidney Bradshaw Fay American historian (died 1967) ; April 22 – Ole Edvart Rolvaag, Norwegian-American writer (died 1931) ; May 10 – Ivan Cankar, Slovene dramatist and poet (died 1918) ; June 2 – Konstantin Trenyov, Russian dramatist (died 1945) ; July 1 – Susan Glaspell, American playwright and novelist (died 1948) ; July 12 – Max Jacob, French poet (died 1944) ; September 13 – Sherwood Anderson, American novelist (died 1941) ; October 31 – Natalie Clifford Barney, American writer and patron (died 1972) ; November 1 – Anne de Noailles, French writer (died 1933) ; December 22 – Thomas Mofolo, Sotho novelist (died 1948) 
Title: 1876 in literature
Content: W. H. Ainsworth ; Chetwynd Calverley ; The Leaguer of Lathom ; Machado de Assis – Helena ; Isabella Banks (Mrs. G. Linnæus Banks) – The Manchester Man ; Walter Besant and James Rice – The Golden Butterfly ; Rhoda Broughton – Joan ; Robert Buchanan – The Shadow of the Sword ; Wilkie Collins – The Two Destinies ; Alphonse Daudet – Jack ; Fyodor Dostoevsky – A Gentle Creature ; George Eliot – Daniel Deronda ; Benito Pérez Galdós – Doña Perfecta ; John Habberton – Helen's Babies ; Thomas Hardy – The Hand of Ethelberta ; Joris-Karl Huysmans – Martha ; Jens Peter Jacobsen – Fru Marie Grubbe ; Herman Melville – Clarel ; Anthony Trollope – The Prime Minister (complete in book form) ; Jules Verne – Michael Strogoff ; Charlotte M. Yonge – The Three Brides ; Émile Zola – Son Excellence Eugène Rougon 
Title: 1876 in literature
Content: Émile Augier – Madame Caverlet ; Rosario de Acuña – Rienzi el tribuno ; W. S. Gilbert – Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith ; Henrik Ibsen – Peer Gynt 
Title: 1876 in literature
Content:  novelist (born 1804) ; June 14 – Catherine Crowe, English novelist and children's writer (born 1803) ; June 20 – John Neal, American novelist and critic (born 1793) ; June 27 – Harriet Martineau, English philosopher and social theorist (born 1802) ; July 14 – James Henry, Irish poet and scholar (born 1798) ; July 24 – John William Kaye, English military historian (born 1814) ; July 25 – Robert Caesar Childers, French-born English orientalist (born 1838) ; October 7 – Georg Heinrich Pertz, German historian (born 1795) ; November 24 – Maria Francesca Rossetti, English critic and translator (born 1827) ; November 28 – Chandos Wren-Hoskyns, English agricultural writer and landowner (born 1812) ; December 30 – Christian Winther, Danish lyric poet (born 1796) 
Title: 1876 in poetry
Content: January 19 – Dragotin Kette (died 1899), Slovene ; January 25 – William Ellery Leonard (died 1944), American ; January 30 – Eva Dobell (died 1963) English poet, nurse, and editor best known for her verses related to World War I soldiers ; February 4 – Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn (died 1959), American poet and socialist ; February 6 – Alice Guerin Crist (died 1941), Irish-born Australian ; March 4 – Léon-Paul Fargue (died 1947), French editor, poet and essayist ; March 15 – Kambara Ariake 蒲原有明 pen-name of Kambara Hayao (died 1952), Japanese Taishō and Shōwa period poet and novelist ; June 20 – Edmond Laforest (suicide 1915), Haitian French language poet ; July 12 
Title: 1876 in literature
Content: January 7 – Juste Olivier, Swiss poet (born 1807) ; January 19 – George Julius Poulett Scrope, English political economist (born 1797) ; February 1 – Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai, Tamil scholar and poet (born 1815) ; February 3 – Gino Capponi, Italian historian (born 1792) ; February 6 – Georgiana Chatterton, English novelist and travel writer (born 1806) ; February 27 – Afanasy Shchapov, Russian historian (born 1830) ; March 2 – Johannes Falke, German historian (born 1823) ; May 7 – William Buell Sprague, American biographer (born 1795) ; May 13 – Joshua Hobson, English pamphleteer (born 1810) ; May 24 – Henry Kingsley, English novelist (born 1830) ; May 26 – František Palacký, Czech historian (born 1798) ; June 8 – George Sand, 
Title: 1876 in literature
Content: Louisa May Alcott – Rose in Bloom ; Mark Twain – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 
Title: 1876 in the United Kingdom
Content: Isabella Banks' novel The Manchester Man. ; Walter Besant and James Rice's novel The Golden Butterfly. ; Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark. ; George Eliot's novel Daniel Deronda. ; Anthony Trollope's book The Prime Minister, fifth of the Palliser novels. 
Title: 1876 in Australian literature
Content: 6 February — Alice Guerin Crist, poet, author and journalist (died 1941) ; 20 March — Winifred Lewellin James, novelist (died 1941) ; 2 September — Will Lawson, poet and novelist (died 1957) ; 7 September — C. J. Dennis, poet (died 1938) ; 4 October — Hugh McCrae, poet (died 1958) ; 5 October — John Bede Dalley, journalist and novelist (died 1935) ; 30 December — Archibald Strong, poet (died 1930) 
Title: 1776 in literature
Content: January – Frances Burney, English dramatist (died 1828) ; January 17 – Jane Porter, Scottish novelist and dramatist (died 1850) ; January 24 – E. T. A. Hoffmann, German fantasy and horror writer (died 1822) ; February 12 – Richard Mant, English writer and cleric (died 1848) ; March 9 – Archibald Bell, Scottish lawyer and miscellanist (died 1854) ; April 13 – Wilhelm von Schütz, German author and playwright (died 1847) ; July 1 – Sophie Gay, French author (died 1852) ; September 21 – John Fitchett, English epic poet (died 1838) ; September 27 – Maria Versfelt, Dutch actress and memoirist (died 1845) ; November 16 – Mary Matilda Betham, English diarist, scholar and poet (died 1852) ; November 20 – William Blackwood, Scottish publisher (died 1834) 

Question: Who is the author of 1876?
Answer: Gore Vidal.
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal.
Gor Vidal.
Cameron Kay.
Eugene Luther Vidal.
Edgar Box.
Katherine Everard.
Eugene Vidal.