Calendar of Literary Facts
1897
- Dorothy Arzner is born
- Sir Ronald Ross discovers the malaria bacillus
- Turkey declares war on Greece over Crete, and is defeated in the ensuing conflict
- The British-Sudanese War begins
- Thornton Wilder is born
- Louis Aragon is born
- H. G. Wells publishes The Invisible Man
- William Faulkner is born
- Bram Stoker publishes Dracula
- Louise Bogan is born
- Frédéric Mistral publishes Lou pouemo dou rose (Anglore: The Song of the Rhone)
- Rudolph Fisher is born (May 9)
