Jan 2, 2010

Calendar of Literary Facts

1902

Marcel (Andre) Ayme is born
Vicente Blasco Ibañez publishes Canas y barro (Reeds and Mud)
Published many years earlier but never performed because of its scandalous subject matter, Bernard Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession is produced
The U.S. asserts control over the Panama Canal
Charles Alexander Eastman publishes Indian Boyhood
Women are granted the right to vote in Australia
Ellen Glasgow publishes The Battle-Ground
Christian Mommsen receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
Grazia Deledda publishes Dopo il divorzio (After the Divorce)
Joseph Conrad publishes Heart of Darkness
Selma Lagerlöf publishes Jerusalem: I det heliga landet (Jerusalem: Part 2)
Ramón del Valle-Inclán publishes Sonata de otono: Memorias del marques de Bradomin (The Pleasant Memories of the Marquis de Bradomin)
Hilaire Belloc publishes The Path to Rome
James Madison Bell dies
Langston Hughes is born (February 1)
Ramón Sender is born (February 3)
Bret Harte dies (May 5)
Georgette Heyer is born (August 6)
Nicolás Guillén is born (July 10)
Marya Zaturenska is born (September 12)
Arna Bontemps is born (October 13)
Wallace Thurman is born (August 16)
The Times Literary Supplement, a weekly review of literature and scholarship, begins publication in London (January 17)
Christina Stead is born (July 17)
Ogden Nash is born (August 19)
Florence Margaret (“Stevie”) Smith is born (September 20)
Luis Cernuda is born (September 21)
Joseph Kesselring is born (June 21)
Halldór Kiljan Gudjonsson (Halldór Laxness) is born (April 23)
Norman MacLean is born (December 23)
Henry Steele Commager is born (October 25)
Andrew Lytle is born (December 26)
John Steinbeck is born (February 27)
Mortimer Adler is born (December 28)
Emile Zola dies (September 29)
Carlos Drummond de Andrade is born (October 31)