Calendar of Literary Facts
1925
- The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is founded
- F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby
- John Dos Passos publishes Manhattan Transfer
- Frederick Philip Grove publishes Settlers of the Marsh
- Countee Cullen publishes Color
- Amy Lowell publishes What’ss O’Clock
- Jacques Maritain publishes Troi Réformateurs: Luther-Descartes-Rousseau (Three Reformers: Luther-Descartes-Rousseau)
- Conrad Aiken publishes Senlin: A Biography
- John Milton Oskison publishes Wild Harvest: A Novel of Transition Days in Oklahoma
- Sherwood Anderson publishes Dark Laughter
- Anita Loos publishes “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady
- Theodore Dreiser publishes An American Tragedy
- Thomas Mann publishes Death in Venice and Other Stories
- In the "Monkey Trial," Tennessee schoolteacher John Scopes is tried for violating a state law prohibiting the teaching of Darwinian theory
- Virginia Woolf publishes Mrs. Dalloway
- The science of quantum mechanics is developed
- Paul von Hindenburg becomes chancellor of Germany
- Harold Ross founds The New Yorker, publishing poetry, short fiction, cartoons, and columns related to “sophisticated” life
- Ellen Glasgow publishes Barren Ground
- Edna Ferber receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for So Big
- Sidney Howard receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for They Knew What They Wanted
- Sinclair Lewis publishes Arrowsmith
- George E. Kelly’s Craig’s Wife is first performed
- Bernard Shaw receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Gore Vidal is born (October 3)
- Russell Hoban is born (February 4)
- Forrest Carter is born (September 4)
- Wladyslaw Reymont dies (December 5)
- John A. Williams is born (December 5)
- Maxine Kumin is born (June 6)
- Shana Alexander is born (October 6)
- Andrei Sinyavsky is born (October 8)
- The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters is organized by A. Philip Randolph (May 8)
- Brian Aldiss is born (August 8)
- Carolyn Kizer is born (December 10)
- James Clavell is born (October 10)
- William Styron is born (June 11)
- Elmore Leonard is born (October 11)
- Amy Lowell dies (May 12)
- Donald Justice is born (August 12)
- Charles Gordone is born (October 12)
- Frank D. Gilroy is born (October 13)
- Kimitake Hiraoka (Yukio Mishima) is born (January 14)
- H. Rider Haggard dies (May 14)
- Russell Baker is born (August 14)
- William Hoffman is born (May 16)
- John Hawkes is born (August 17)
- Robert Cormier is born (January 17)
- James Lane Allen dies (February 18)
- Malcolm Little (Malcolm X) is born (May 19)
- Nina Bawden is born (January 19)
- Ernesto Cardenal is born (January 20)
- Alex La Guma is born (February 20)
- Frantz Fanon is born (July 20)
- Enrique Buenaventura is born (August 23)
- William F. Buckley Jr. is born (November 24)
- Rosario Castellanos is born (May 25)
- Flannery O’Connor is born (March 25)
- Tony Hillerman is born (May 27)
- Kenneth Koch is born (February 27)
- Dominick Dunne is born (October 29)
- Jack Spicer is born (January 30)
