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1930
Margaret Ayer Barnes publishes Years of Grace
José Ortega y Gasset publishes La rebelion de las masas (The Revolt of the Masses )
Pearl S. Buck publishes East Wind: West Wind The Smoot-Hawley Act, effecting a very high tariff on imported goods, is signed into law in the U.S.
Jean Cocteau’s La Voix humaine (The Human Voice ) is published
Richard Hughes publishes The Innocent Voyage Ivy Compton-Burnett publishes Brothers and Sisters Hart Crane publishes The Bridge Dame Edith Sitwell publishes The Collected Poems of Edith Sitwell
Allen Tate publishes Ode to the Confederate Dead “Twelve Southerners,” whose number includes John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren, publish I’ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition
Yellow Fever vaccine is developed by Max Theiler
The gas turbine is invented
The name of Constantinople (ancient Byzantium) is changed to Istanbul
The planet Pluto is discovered by Clyde Tombaugh
Oliver La Farge receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Laughing Boy
Marc Connelly receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for The Green Pastures Salvatore Quasimodo publishes Acque e terre Miguel Angel Asturias publishes Leyendas de Guatemala St.-John Perse publishes Anabasis Lynn Riggs’s Green Grow the Lilacs is produced
Dorothy Parker publishes Laments for the Living Sinclair Lewis receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
Conrad Aiken receives Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Selected Poems Noel Coward’s Private Lives
John Crowe Ransom publishes God without Thunder: An Unorthodox Defense of Orthodoxy Jacques Maritain publishes Introduction generale a la philosophie (Introduction to Philosophy )
Wyndham Lewis publishes The Apes of God Frederick Schiller Faust’s Destry Rides Again
Writing under the pseudonym “Carolyn Keene,” Midred Augustine publishes the first Nancy Drew mysteries, including The Secret of the Old Clock and The Hidden Staircase
John Dos Passos publishes The 42nd Parallel , the first volume in his “U.S.A.” trilogy
A. R. Gurney Jr. is born (November 1)
Bernard Slade Newbound is born (May 2)
D. H. Lawrence dies (March 2) Arthur Conan Doyle dies (July 6)
Gary Snyder is born (May 8) Harold Pinter is born (October 10) Edward Brathwaite is born (May 11) J. E. Casely-Hayford dies (August 11)
Stanley L. Elkin is born (May 11)
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins dies (August 13)
Vladimir Mayakovsky dies (April 14)
J. G. Ballard is born (November 15) Jacques Derrida is born (July 15) Miguel Mendez is born (June 15)
Joseph F. Girzone is born (May 15)
Chinua Achebe is born (November 16) Ted Hughes is born (August 17) James (“Jimmy”) Breslin is born (October 17)
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn is born (November 17) Lorraine Hansberry is born (May 19) Robert Bridges dies (April 21) Stephen Sondheim is born (March 22) Derek Walcott is born (January 23) Francine du Plessix Gray is born (September 25)
John Arden is born (October 26) Gregory Corso is born (March 26) John Barth is born (May 27) Colin Dexter is born (September 29)
Marion Zimmer Bradley is born (June 30) Timothy Findley is born (October 30) Vladimir Mayakovsky produces his drama Banya (The Bathhouse ) (January 30)
