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1918

• Michel de Ghelderode publishes La mort regarde a la fenetre
• The first Nobel Prize for literature is awarded to Ernest Poole for receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for His Family
• The authorities of the U.S. Post Office burn installments of James Joyce’s Ulysses
• César Vallejo publishes Los heraldos negros (The Black Heralds)
• Jesse Lynch Williams receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for Why Marry?
• The U.S. Congress passes the Sedition Act of 1918, which criminalizes the saying, printing, writing, or publishing anything abusive, profane, or disloyal about the American military cause in World War I
• The Russian Civil War occurs, pitting the Bolsheviks (Reds) against the anti-Communist Whites
• Willa Cather publishes My Ántonia
• The posthumous Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins is published
• A worldwide epidemic of Spanish Influenza kills an estimated 22 million persons
• Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed in Siberia by order of V. I. Lenin
• Booth Tarkington publishes The Magificent Ambersons
• Longtime monarchies Austria and Germany become republics
• Poland, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary become independent states
• Muriel Spark is born (February 1)
• Allen Drury is born (September 2)
• Edmond Rostand dies (December 2)
• Wilfred Owen dies (November 4)
• Ernest Hemingway is seriously wounded during an Austrian assault on the Italian Front, in World War I (July 8)
• Guillaume Apollinaire dies (November 9)
• Frank Wedekind dies (March 9)
• World War I ends when German military officials surrender and sign the Armistice (November 11)
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is born (December 11)
• Juan José Arreola is born (September 12)
• Juan Rulfo is born (May 16)
• William Hope Hodgson dies (April 17)
• Nelson Mandela is born (July 18)
• Russell Kirk is born (October 19)
• Under the facilitation of W. E. B. Du Bois, the first Pan-African Congress is held in Paris, France (February 19)
• Margaret Avison is born (April 23)
• P. H. Newby is born (June 25)
• Theodore Sturgeon is born (February 26)
• Henry Adams dies (March 27)
• Madeleine L’Engle is born (November 29)
• Edwin O’Connor is born (July 29)
• A. W. Purdy is born (December 30)