Calendar of Literary Facts
1928
- The power of the Chinese provincial warlords is overthrown, and China is united, with Chiang Kai-shek as president of the republic
- Siegfried Sassoon publishes Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
- André Breton publishes Nadja
- Luther Standing Bear publishes My People the Sioux
- Thornton Wilder receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Erich Maria Remarque publishes Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front)
- Sigrid Undset receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Stephen Vincent Benét publishes John Brown’s Body
- Jorge Guillén publishes Cantico
- D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover is written
- Jorge Luis Borges publishes El idioma de los argentinos
- Rudolph Fisher publishes The Walls of Jericho
- A. A. Milne publishes The House at Pooh Corner
- Chinese communist resistance to Chiang Kai-shek is organized in Hunan Province
- Josef Stalin announces the first Five-Year Plan in the Soviet Union
- The Kellogg-Briand Pact is signed, outlawing war
- Amelia Earhardt becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic
- Robert Frost publishes West-Running Brook
- Julia Peterkin publishes Scarlet Sister Mary
- Morley Callaghan publishes Strange Fugitive
- Evelyn Waugh publishes Decline and Fall
- Penicillin is discovered by Alexander Fleming
- The first television broadcasts are aired
- Iain Crichton Smith is born (January 1)
- Camara Laye is born (January 1)
- Maya Angelou is born (April 4)
- Alvin Toffler is born (October 4)
- Andrew M. Greeley is born (February 5)
- Robert M. Pirsig is born (September 6)
- Gabriel García Márquez is born (March 6)
- William Peter Blatty is born (January 7)
- Anne Sexton is born (November 9)
- Philip Levine is born (January 10)
- Maurice Sendak is born (June 10)
- Carlos Fuentes is born (November 11)
- William X. Kienzle is born (September 11)
- Thomas Hardy dies (January 11)
- Chingiz (Torekulovich) Aitmatov is born (December 12)
- Edward Albee is born (March 12)
- Ernesto (Che) Guevara is born (June 14)
- William Kennedy is born (January 16)
- Anita Brookner is born (July 16)
- Philip K. Dick is born (December 16)
- Cynthia Ozick is born (April 17)
- Robert Newton Peck is born (February 17)
- Donald Hall is born (September 20)
- Charles Alan Reich is born (May 20)
- Edouard Glissant is born (September 21)
- Jayanta Mahapatra is born (October 22)
- William Trevor Cox is born (May 24)
- David Mercer is born (June 27)
- James L. Collier is born (June 27)
- Harry G(rover) Allard, Jr. is born (January 27)
- Vicente Blasco Ibañez dies (January 28)
- Elie Wiesel is born (September 30)
