Calendar of Literary Facts
1952
- E. B. White publishes Charlotte’s Web
- Ernest Hemingway publishes The Old Man and the Sea
- Ralph Ellison publishes Invisible Man
- Ernest Buckler publishes The Mountain and the Valley
- Amos Tutuola publishes The Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead’s Town
- Juan José Arreola publishes Confabulario
- Rohinton Mistry is born
- John Steinbeck publishes East of Eden
- Marianne Moore receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Collected Poems
- Herman Wouk receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Caine Mutiny: A Novel of World War II
- Jean Anouilh’s Le bal des voleurs is produced
- Jimmy Santiago Baca is born
- Ralph J. Bunche publishes Peace and the United Nations
- Erle Stanley Gardner publishes The Court of Last Resort
- Yasunari Kawabata publishes Sembazuru (Thousand Cranes)
- Margery Allingham publishes The Tiger in the Smoke
- François Mauriac receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Joseph Kramm receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for The Shrike
- C. S. Lewis publishes Mere Christianity
- Dr. Jonas Salk introduces a vaccine to treat polio
- The Mau-Mau revolt against British colonial rule in Kenya
- Elizabeth II ascends the throne of Great Britain
- The first hydrogen bomb is tested by U.S. technicians
- Whittaker Chambers publishes Witness
- Evelyn Waugh publishes his Sword of Honour trilogy
- Ferenc Molnar dies (April 1)
- Mariano Azuela dies (March 1)
- Clive Barker is born (October 5)
- Michael Cunningham is born (November 6)
- Elizabeth Becker (Beth Henley) is born (May 8)
- Robert R. McCammon is born (July 11)
- Douglas Adams is born (March 11)
- Gary Soto is born (April 12)
- Walter Mosley is born (January 12)
- Loren D. Estleman is born (September 15)
- Joseph Kramm’s drama The Shrike is first performed (January 15)
- Alice Hoffman is born (March 16)
- Knut Hamsun dies (February 19)
- Amy Tan is born (February 19)
- Vikram Seth is born (June 20)
- Cherrie Moraga is born (September 25)
- Rita Dove is born (August 28)
