Calendar of Literary Facts
1913
- Niels Bohr and Ernest Rutherford formulate an influential theory of the atomic structure
- Rabindranath Tagore receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Guillaume Apollinaire publishes Alcools: Poemes 1898-1913
- Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion is produced
- D. H. Lawrence publishes Sons and Lovers
- Willa Cather publishes O Pioneers!
- Anton Chekhov’s The Sea-gull (The Sea-Gull: A Play in Four Acts) is produced
- Marcel Proust publishes A la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past)
- The socialist weekly New Statesman is founded in London
- Modernism flourishes as an English, Irish, and American literary movement
- Henry Ford develops the first moving automotive assembly line at his plant in Highland Park, Michigan
- Fenton Johnson publishes A Little Dreaming
- Miguel de Unamuno publishes Del sentimiento tragico de la vida en los hombres y en los pueblos (The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and in Peoples)
- Robert E. Hayden is born (August 4)
- Albert Camus is born (November 7)
- E. Pauline Johnson dies (March 7)
- Louis Hemon dies (July 8)
- Claude Simon is born (October 10)
- Karl Shapiro is born (November 10)
- William Inge is born (May 13)
- Jacinto Benavente’s drama La malquerida (The Passionflower) is produced (December 13)
- Muriel Rukeyser is born (December 15)
- Aime Cesaire is born (June 25)
- Irwin Shaw is born (February 27)
- Robertson Davies is born (August 28)
- R. S. Thomas is born (March 29)
