Calendar of Literary Facts
1906
- Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle
- O. Henry publishes The Four Million
- German neurologist Alois Alzheimer identifies the brain disorder which today bears his name
- Roald Amundsen establishes the position of the magnetic North Pole
- The San Francisco Earthquake strikes, resulting in a huge loss of life and property
- American troops occupy Cuba
- Giosuè Carducci receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert (who wrote under the pseudonyms “Jean Plaidy” and “Victoria Holt”) is born (September 1)
- Artur Lundkvist is born (March 3)
- Henry Roth is born (February 8)
- Paul Laurence Dunbar dies (February 9)
- Leopold Sedar Senghor is born (October 9)
- R. K. Narayan is born (October 10)
- George Dillon is born (November 12)
- Samuel Beckett is born (April 13)
- Hannah Arendt is born (October 14)
- Arturo Uslar Pietri is born (May 16)
- Francisco (de Paula y Garcia Duarte) Ayala is born (March 16)
- Clifford Odets is born (July 18)
- Lillian Hellman is born (June 20)
- Sidney Kingsley is born (October 22)
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh is born (June 22)
- Henrik Ibsen dies (May 23)
- John Betjeman is born (August 28)
