Calendar of Literary Facts
1904
- Hottentot tribesmen unsuccessfully revolt against German colonials in southwest Africa (modern-day Namibia)
- Pío Baroja publishes La busca (The Quest)
- William Stanley Braithwaite publishes Lyrics of Life and Love
- James Joyce publishes Dubliners
- J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up is produced
- Wladyslaw Reymont publishes his four-volume epic Chlopi (The Peasants)
- The Bloomsbury Group flourishes in London
- Japan defeats Russia in the Russo-Japanese War
- Luigi Pirandello publishes Il fu Mattia Pascal The Late Mattia Pascal
- S. J. Perelman is born (February 1)
- Anton Chekhov dies (July 2)
- Graham Greene is born (October 2)
- Witold Gombrowicz is born (August 4)
- MacKinlay Kantor is born (February 4)
- Richard Eberhart is born (April 5)
- Ralph J. Bunche is born (August 7)
- Pablo Neruda is born (July 12)
- Earle Birney is born (May 13)
- Isaac Bashevis Singer is born (July 14)
- Sylvia Ashton-Warner is born (December 17)
- D’Arcy McNickle is born (January 18)
- Margery Allingham is born (May 20)
- B. F. Skinner is born (March 20)
- Kate Chopin dies (August 22)
- Louis Zukofsky is born (January 23)
- Moss Hart is born (October 24)
- Alejo Carpentier is born (December 26)
- Christopher Isherwood is born (August 26)
- C. Day Lewis is born (April 27)
