Calendar of Literary Facts
1892
- The Sewanee Review, a literary quarterly, is founded at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee
- Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid and Other Stories is published
- Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- James Thomson’s Poems, Essays and Fragments is published
- Georges Feydeau publishes Monsieur chasse! (The Happy Hunter)
- Jean Toomer is born
- Archibald MacLeish is born
- Elmer Rice is born
- Pearl S. Buck is born
- Ivo Andrič is born
- Ryunosuke Akutagawa is born (March 1)
- J. R. R. Tolkien is born (January 3)
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson dies (October 6)
- John Greenleaf Whittier dies (September 7)
- Richard Aldington is born (July 8)
- Djuna Barnes is born (January 12)
- César Vallejo is born (March 16)
- Robert P. Tristram Coffin is born (March 18)
- Walt Whitman dies (March 26)
- Edna St. Vincent Millay is born (February 27)
- Frederick Schiller Faust is born (May 29)
- Alfonsina Storni is born (May 29)
