Calendar of Literary Facts
1916
- The Dada school of thought is founded in Zurich
- James Joyce publishes A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Mariano Azuela publishes Los de abajo: Novela de la revolucion mexicana (The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution)
- Lilian Jackson Braun is born
- Henri Barbusse publishes Le Feu, the best known and most influential French antiwar novel written during World War I
- Carl Sandburg publishes Chicago Poems
- Ring Lardner publishes You Know Me Al
- Verner von Heidenstam receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Ivan Bunin publishes Gospodin iz San-Frantsisko (The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories)
- The Easter Uprising in Ireland is suppressed
- Anne Hebert is born (August 1)
- James Alfred Wight (“James Herriot”) is born (October 3)
- Peter Viereck is born (August 5)
- Frank Yerby is born (September 5)
- Stanley Ellin is born (October 6)
- Rubén Darío dies (February 6)
- Peter Weiss is born (November 8)
- Camilo José Cela is born (May 11)
- Roald Dahl is born (September 13)
- H. H. Munro (“Saki”) dies (November 13)
- Horton Foote is born (March 14)
- Henryk Sienkiewicz dies (November 14)
- José Echegaray dies (September 15)
- Shelby Foote is born (November 17)
- Penelope Fitzgerald is born (December 17)
- Irving Wallace is born (March 19)
- Thomas McGrath is born (November 20)
- Harold Robbins is born (May 21)
- James Whitcomb Riley dies (July 22)
- Eugenia Price is born (June 22)
- Jack London dies (November 22)
- P. K. Page is born (November 23)
- John Ciardi is born (June 24)
- John D. Macdonald is born (July 24)
- Walker Percy is born (May 26)
- Elizabeth Hardwick is born (July 27)
- Henry James dies (February 28)
- The crew of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton is rescued after a year-and-a-half ordeal on frozen Elephant Island (August 30)
