Calendar of Literary Facts
1909
- Johannes V. Jensen publishes his six-volume novel cycle entitled Den lange Rejse (The Long Journey)
- Demetrio Aguilera Malta is born
- Dorothy Livesay is born
- Juan Carlos Onetti is born
- Harley Granville-Barker publishes The Marrying of Ann Leete
- Robert Peary’s expedition reaches the North Pole
- Civil War is fought in Honduras
- Italian Futurism flourishes as a literary and artistic movement
- Selma Lagerlöf receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Gertrude Stein publishes Three Lives: Stories of the Good Anna, Melanctha, and the Gentle Lena
- Juan Bosch is born
- Wallace Stegner is born
- Eudora Welty is born
- Algernon Charles Swinburne dies (April 10)
- A. M. Klein is born (February 14)
- George Meredith dies (May 18)
- Raja Rao is born (November 21)
- Gabrielle Roy is born (March 22)
- J. M. Synge dies (March 24)
- Sheila Watson is born (October 24)
- James Agee is born (November 27)
- Eric Ambler is born (June 28)
- Stephen Spender is born (February 28)
- Nelson Algren is born (March 28)
- Chester Himes is born (July 29)
