Calendar of Literary Facts
1929
- Margery Allingham publishes The Crime at Black Dudley (published in the U.S. as The Black Dudley Murder), in which she introduces her most famous character, Albert Campion
- Paul Green’s In Abraham’s Bosom is produced
- Wallace Thurman publishes Harlem: A Melodrama of Negro Life in Harlem
- William Faulkner publishes The Sound and the Fury
- Ernest Hemingway publishes A Farewell to Arms
- Sinclair Lewis publishes Dodsworth
- Will Rogers publishes Ether and Me
- Federico García Lorca publishes Romancero gitano (Gypsy Ballads)
- Elmer Rice receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for Street Scene
- The American Stock Market crashes in October, bringing on the Great Depression
- The Great Depression grips the United States, with many Americans out of work and federal make-work programs instituted
- Owen Barfield publishes Poetic Diction
- The Jazz Singer, the first motion-picture with sound, signals the end of the silent era in film
- Importation of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions is banned by the U.S. Customs Service
- Julia Peterkin receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Scarlet Sister Mary
- Oliver La Farge publishes Laughing Boy
- Stephen Vincent Benét receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for John Brown’s Body
- Thomas Wolfe publishes Look Homeward, Angel
- Louise Bogan publishes Dark Summer
- Martin Luther King Jr. is born
- Georgette Heyer publishes Beauvallet
- Thomas Mann receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Virginia Woolf publishes A Room of One’s Own
- C. Day Lewis publishes Transitional Poem
- Robert Bridges publishes The Testament of Beauty
- H. E. Bates publishes Seven Tales and Alexander
- Milan Kundera is born (April 1)
- A(lfred) Alvarez is born (August 5)
- Bliss Carman dies (June 8)
- Shirley Ann Grau is born (July 8)
- Imre Kertesz is born (April 9)
- Paule Marshall is born (April 9)
- Elmer Rice’s Street Scene is first produced (January 10)
- Antonine Maillet is born (May 10)
- Anne Frank is born (June 12)
- John Osborne is born (December 12)
- Brigid Brophy is born (June 12)
- Basil H. Johnston is born (July 13)
- Vladimir Mayakovsky produces his drama Klop (The Bedbug) (February 13)
- In Chicago, seven members of George (“Bugs”) Moran’s North Side Gang are executed by minions of gangster Al Capone, in an event known as the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (February 14)
- Jesse Lynch Williams dies (September 14)
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal dies (July 15)
- Adrienne Rich is born (May 16)
- Maurice Kenny is born (August 16)
- Chaim Potok is born (February 17)
- Leonard Cyril Deighton is born (February 18)
- Howard Sackler is born (December 19)
- Rolando Hinojosa-Smith is born (January 21)
- Ursula K. Le Guin is born (October 21)
- Marilyn French is born (November 21)
- G. Cabrera Infante is born (April 22)
- Michael Shaara is born (June 23)
- George Steiner is born (April 23)
- Ralph McInerny is born (February 24)
- Mary Higgins (Clark) is born (December 24)
- Jean Shepherd is born (July 26)
- Jules Feiffer is born (January 26)
- Ira Levin is born (August 27)
- Harry Patterson is born (July 27)
