Calendar of Literary Facts
1922
- T. S. Eliot founds The Criterion, which he edits until it folds in 1939
- Sinclair Lewis publishes Babbitt
- Reader’s Digest begins publication; becomes one of the most popular and widely-read magazines in the world
- Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard is produced
- Claude McKay publishes Harlem Shadows: The Poems of Claude McKay
- Bertolt Brecht’s Trommeln in der Nacht: drama (Drums in the Night) is produced
- John Galsworthy publishes The Forsyte Saga
- T. S. Eliot publishes The Waste Land
- James Joyce publishes Ulysses; the novel is banned from import into the United States, a ban which is not lifted for 11 years
- Jacinto Benavente receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Jean Giraudoux’s Siegfried et le Limousin (My Friend from Limousin) is published
- John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, Allen Tate, and other members of “the Fugitives” school of American poetry publish the quarterly journal The Fugitive in Nashville
- Hermann Hesse publishes Siddhartha: Eine indische Dichtung (Siddhartha)
- Insulin is first used to treat diabetes
- The Irish Free State is founded
- V. I. Lenin forms the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
- Benito Mussolini’s Fascists conduct their “March on Rome” and establish a Fascist state with “Il Duce” at its head
- The Harlem Renaissance flourishes in New York
- The high tide of Surrealism as a literary movement
- Booth Tarkington receives his second Pulitzer Prize in fiction, for Alice Adams
- Katherine Mansfield publishes The Garden Party, and Other Stories
- Roger Martin du Gard publishes his eight-part novel Les Thibault
- Selma Lagerlöf publishes Maarbacka
- Willa Cather publishes One of Ours
- Edna St. Vincent Millay publishes Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
- William Manchester is born (April 1)
- Tad Mosel is born (May 1)
- Henry Kreisel is born (June 5)
- Philip Larkin is born (September 9)
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is born (November 11)
- Grace Paley is born (December 11)
- Mavis Gallant is born (August 11)
- Jean-Louis Lebris de (“Jack”) Kerouac is born (March 12)
- Kingsley Amis is born (April 16)
- José Saramago is born (November 16)
- Marcel Proust dies (November 18)
- Damon Knight is born (September 19)
- John Kendrick Bangs dies (January 21)
- Howard Moss is born (January 22)
- William Demby is born (December 25)
- Alistair MacLean is born (April 28)
- William Gaddis is born (December 29)