Calendar of Literary Facts
1926
- Franz Kafka’s Das Schloss (The Castle)
- The Bible and The Koran are barred from importation into the Soviet Union; existing copies are removed from library shelves
- Establishment of the “Book-of-the-Month Club;” Club sells discounted editions to subscribers
- Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan
- The airship Norge flies over the North Pole
- André Gide publishes Les faux-monnayeurs (The Counterfeiters)
- Colette publishes La Fin de Cheri (The Last of Cheri)
- Dorothy Parker publishes Enough Rope
- The Pulitzer Prize in poetry is awarded posthumously to Amy Lowell for What’s O’Clock (postumously)
- G. K. Chesterton publishes The Everlasting Man
- George E. Kelly receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for Craig’s Wife
- Langston Hughes publishes The Weary Blues
- A. A. Milne publishes Winnie-the-Pooh
- Sinclair Lewis receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Arrowsmith (declined)
- Leonora Speyer publishes Fiddler’s Farewell
- Ernest Hemingway publishes The Sun Also Rises
- NBC, the first radio network, is formed
- Isaak (Emmanuilovich) Babel publishes Red Cavalry
- Louis Bromfield publishes Early Autumn
- Anne McCaffrey is born (April 1)
- James Reaney is born (September 1)
- Alison Lurie is born (September 3)
- James Merrill is born (March 3)
- Allen Ginsberg is born (June 3)
- H. L. Mencken is arrested for selling a copy of The American Mercury to the secretary of the Boston Watch and Ward Society; the offending issue contained the story “Hatrack,” which the Society deemed obscene (April 5)
- Margaret Laurence is born (January 5)
- W. D. Snodgrass is born (January 5)
- Frederick Buechner is born (July 11)
- Fidel Castro is born (May 13)
- Alice (Boyd) Adams is born (August 14)
- Thomas Tryon is born (January 14)
- Peter Shaffer is born (May 15)
- Rudolf Eucken dies (September 15)
- Michel Foucault is born (October 15)
- Evan Hunter is born (October 15)
- John Knowles is born (September 16)
- A. R. Ammons is born (February 18)
- Edward Lewis Wallant is born (October 19)
- John Gardner is born (November 20)
- Robert Creeley is born (May 21)
- Robert Bly is born (December 23)
- Dario Fo is born (March 24)
- Poul (William) Anderson is born (November 25)
- Frank O’Hara is born (June 27)
- Harper Lee is born (April 28)
- Rainer Maria Rilke dies (December 29)
- John Fowles is born (March 31)
