Calendar of Literary Facts

1901

  • Margaret Crane is born
  • Anton Chekhov’s Tri syotry is produced
  • August Strindberg’s Doedsdansen (The Dance of Death) is produced
  • Hugo von Hofmannsthal publishes Der Tod des Tizian: Ein dramatisches Fragment (The Death of Titian)
  • Beatrix Potter publishes The Tale of Peter Rabbit
  • Gertrude Bonnin publishes Old Indian Legends
  • Booker T. Washington publishes Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
  • Sully Prudhomme receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
  • King Camp Gillette invents and begins marketing the safety razor
  • First successful transmission of a radio signal is received by Guglielmo Marconi
  • The era of muckraking journalism in the United States
  • Rudolf Steiner introduces the philosophy of Anthroposophy
  • U.S. President William McKinley is assassinated; he is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt
  • Sterling Brown is born (May 1)
  • Whittaker Chambers is born (April 1)
  • Roy Campbell is born (October 2)
  • André Malraux is born (November 3)
  • Barbara Cartland is born (July 9)
  • Leopoldo (Enrique Garcia) Alas (y Urena) dies (June 13)
  • A. B. Guthrie Jr. is born (January 13)
  • Salvatore Quasimodo is born (June 14)
  • Oliver La Farge is born (December 19)
  • Jaroslav Seifert is born (September 23)