Calendar of Literary Facts
1937
- The German airship Hindenberg explodes and burns at Lakehurst, New Jersey
- Wallace Stegner publishes Remembering Laughter
- Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman receive the Pulitzer Prize in drama for You Can’t Take It With You
- Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman’s You Can’t Take It With You is produced
- Sterling Brown publishes Negro Poetry and Drama
- J. R. R. Tolkien publishes The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again
- Nicanor Parra publishes Cancionero sin nombre
- John Steinbeck publishes Of Mice and Men
- Stevie Smith publishes A Good Time Was Had by All
- Nicolás Guillén publishes Cantos para soldados y sones para turistas
- Zora Neale Hurston publishes Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Margaret Mitchell receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Gone With the Wind
- Josef Stalin disposes of his political enemies in a series of show trials
- Neville Chamberlain is named Prime Minister of Great Britain
- The Golden Gate Bridge is completed in San Francisco, California
- Roger Martin du Gard receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Eyvind Johnson publishes Volume IV of his tetralogy Romanem om Olaf, entitled Slutspel i ungdomen
- Yasunari Kawabata publishes Yukiguni (Snow Country)
- Marya Zaturenska publishes Cold Morning Sky
- Caroline Gordon publishes None Shall Look Back
- Wyndham Lewis publishes The Revenge for Love
- Paul Green mounts The Lost Colony, America’s first outdoor drama, on Roanoke Island, North Carolina
- John Kennedy Toole is born
- Brian Lumley is born (December 2)
- Marvin Bell is born (August 3)
- Diane Wakoski is born (August 3)
- Tom Stoppard is born (July 3)
- Robert Fulghum is born (June 4)
- Bessie Head is born (July 6)
- Thomas Pynchon is born (May 8)
- Bella Akhatovna Akhmadulina is born (April 10)
- Arthur Kopit is born (May 10)
- Edith Wharton dies (August 11)
- Maryse Conde is born (February 11)
- Walter Dean Myers is born (August 12)
- Roch Carrier is born (May 13)
- Lanford Wilson is born (April 13)
- H. P. Lovecraft dies (March 15)
- Donald Goines is born (December 15)
- Hunter S. Thompson is born (July 18)
- Gail Godwin is born (June 18)
- Sir James M. Barrie dies (June 19)
- Horacio Quiroga dies (February 19)
- Joseph Wambaugh is born (January 22)
- Claude Brown is born (February 23)
- Anita Desai is born (June 24)
- Luis Omar Salinas is born (June 27)
- Rudolfo Anaya is born (October 30)
