Calendar of Literary Facts
1905
- The Brooklyn Public Library bans Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn from the shelves of its children’s department, citing these books as “bad examples for ingenuous youth”
- Romain Rolland publishes his ten-volume novel Jean-Christophe
- Verner von Heidenstam publishes Folkungatraedet (The Tree of the Folkungs)
- Henryk Sienkiewicz receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Russian sailors mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin; this prelude to the Russian Revolution is suppressed
- In the industrial Ruhr region in Germany, 200,000 miners go on strike
- Norway and Sweden become separate nations
- Albert Einstein develops the Special Theory of Relativity
- Rubén Dario publishes Cantos de vida y esperanza, Los cisnes, y otros poemas
- Miguel de Unamuno publishes Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho (The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho)
- Ayn Rand is born (February 2)
- Lionel Trilling is born (July 4)
- Meyer Levin is born (October 8)
- Mildred Augustine is born (July 10)
- Mulk Raj Anand is born (December 12)
- C. P. Snow is born (October 15)
- H. E. Bates is born (May 16)
- John Patrick is born (May 17)
- George MacDonald dies (September 18)
- Frederic Dannay is born (October 20)
- Phyllis McGinley is born (March 21)
- Mary Mapes Dodge dies (August 21)
- Jean-Paul Sartre is born (June 21)
- Kenneth Rexroth is born (December 22)
- Mikhail Sholokhov is born (May 24)
- Robert Penn Warren is born (April 24)
- Elias Canetti is born (July 25)
- Emlyn Williams is born (November 26)
- Stanley Kunitz is born (July 29)
- John O’Hara is born (January 31)
- Frank Marshall Davis is born (December 31)