Calendar of Literary Facts
1902
- Marcel (Andre) Ayme is born
- Vicente Blasco Ibañez publishes Canas y barro (Reeds and Mud)
- Published many years earlier but never performed because of its scandalous subject matter, Bernard Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession is produced
- The U.S. asserts control over the Panama Canal
- Charles Alexander Eastman publishes Indian Boyhood
- Women are granted the right to vote in Australia
- Ellen Glasgow publishes The Battle-Ground
- Christian Mommsen receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Grazia Deledda publishes Dopo il divorzio (After the Divorce)
- Joseph Conrad publishes Heart of Darkness
- Selma Lagerlöf publishes Jerusalem: I det heliga landet (Jerusalem: Part 2)
- Ramón del Valle-Inclán publishes Sonata de otono: Memorias del marques de Bradomin (The Pleasant Memories of the Marquis de Bradomin)
- Hilaire Belloc publishes The Path to Rome
- James Madison Bell dies
- Langston Hughes is born (February 1)
- Ramón Sender is born (February 3)
- Bret Harte dies (May 5)
- Georgette Heyer is born (August 6)
- Nicolás Guillén is born (July 10)
- Marya Zaturenska is born (September 12)
- Arna Bontemps is born (October 13)
- Wallace Thurman is born (August 16)
- The Times Literary Supplement, a weekly review of literature and scholarship, begins publication in London (January 17)
- Christina Stead is born (July 17)
- Ogden Nash is born (August 19)
- Florence Margaret (“Stevie”) Smith is born (September 20)
- Luis Cernuda is born (September 21)
- Joseph Kesselring is born (June 21)
- Halldór Kiljan Gudjonsson (Halldór Laxness) is born (April 23)
- Norman MacLean is born (December 23)
- Henry Steele Commager is born (October 25)
- Andrew Lytle is born (December 26)
- John Steinbeck is born (February 27)
- Mortimer Adler is born (December 28)
- Emile Zola dies (September 29)
- Carlos Drummond de Andrade is born (October 31)
