Calendar of Literary Facts
1949
- A republican form of government is established in India
- Gwendolyn Brooks publishes Annie Allen
- Arthur Miller receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for Death of a Salesman
- William Faulkner receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Simone de Beauvoir publishes Le Deuxieme Sexe (The Second Sex)
- George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is published
- Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is produced
- Shirley Jackson publishes The Lottery; or, The Adventures of James Harris
- James Reaney publishes The Red Heart
- C. P. Snow publishes Time of Hope
- Christopher Fry publishes The Lady’s Not for Burning
- Peter Viereck publishes Terror and Decorum: Poems, 1940-1948
- H. L. Mencken publishes A Mencken Chrestomathy
- A. B. Guthrie Jr. publishes The Way West
- James Gould Cozzens receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Guard of Honor
- Peter Viereck receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Terror and Decorum: Poems, 1940-1948
- Eugenio Montale publishes Volume II of his Poesie, entitled Le occasioni
- Dorothy L. Sayers publishes Hell, the first volume of her translation of Dante’s Divina Commedia
- Ken Follett is born (June 5)
- Peter Ackroyd is born (October 5)
- Victor Hernandez Cruz is born (February 6)
- The Rodgers-and-Hammerstein musical South Pacific, based upon James A. Mitchener’s Tales of the South Pacific, is first performed (April 7)
- Maurice Maeterlinck dies (May 7)
- Jonathan Kellerman is born (August 9)
- Sigrid Undset dies (June 10)
- Dorothy E. Allison is born (April 11)
- Kevin Major is born (September 12)
- Scott Turow is born (April 12)
- Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. dies (March 14)
- Nick Bantock is born (July 14)
- Richard Russo is born (July 15)
- Graham Swift is born (August 16)
- Margaret Mitchell dies (August 16)
- Jane Urquhart is born (June 21)
- Gayl Jones is born (November 23)
- Martin Amis is born (August 25)
- Jamaica Kincaid is born (May 25)
- Jane Smiley is born (September 26)
- Beatrice Culleton is born (August 27)
