Calendar of Literary Facts
1943
- Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels closes theaters and publishers in Germany
- Ayn Rand publishes The Fountainhead
- Pete Dexter is born
- Kenneth Patchen publishes Cloth of the Tempest
- Upton Sinclair receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Dragon’s Teeth
- Jean-Paul Sartre publishes L’etre et le neant: Essai d’ontologie phenomenologique (Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology)
- The Pulitzer Prize in poetry is awarded to the late Stephen Vincent Benét for Western Star
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery publishes Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince)
- Wallace Stegner publishes The Big Rock Candy Mountain
- Albert Jay Nock publishes Memoirs of a Superfluous Man
- Martin Flavin publishes Journey in the Dark
- Benito Mussolini is deposed; new Italian government declares war on Nazi Germany
- Peter Straub is born (March 2)
- Steven Millhauser is born (August 3)
- H. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin) is born (October 4)
- Sam Shepard is born (November 5)
- Nikki Giovanni is born (June 7)
- Susan Isaacs is born (December 7)
- Pat(ricia) Barker is born (May 8)
- James Tate is born (December 8)
- Michael Ondaatje is born (December 9)
- Michael Palmer is born (May 11)
- Stephen Vincent Benét dies (March 13)
- Reinaldo Arenas is born (June 16)
- The 70,000 Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto are liquidated by German occupation forces after an unsuccessful uprising (May 16)
- LaVyrle Spencer is born (August 17)
- Tess Gallagher is born (July 21)
- Louise Gluck is born (April 22)
- Beatrix Potter dies (December 22)
- Nelson DeMille is born (August 23)
- Thomas King is born (April 24)
- Sue Miller is born (November 29)
