Calendar of Literary Facts
1932
- Aldous Huxley publishes Brave New World
- George Dillon receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for The Flowering Stone
- Pearl S. Buck receives Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Good Earth
- John Galsworthy receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- In German election, the Nazi Party gains a majority of seats in the Reichstag
- Gunnar Ekeloef publishes Sent Pa Jorden: Dikter, 1927-1931 (Late Arrival on Earth: Selected Poems of Gunnar Ekeloef)
- “Bonus-Marchers’” encampment in Washington, D.C. is dispersed by U.S. troops under Douglas MacArthur
- Worldwide economic depression deepens, with 30 million unemployed persons in the industrial world
- Erskine Caldwell publishes Tobacco Road
- George S. Kaufman receives the Pulitzer Prizes in drama for Of Thee I Sing
- Mikhail Sholokhov publishes Podniataia tselina (Virgin Soil Upturned)
- Archibald MacLeish publishes Conquistador
- François Mauriac publishes Le noeud de viperes (Vipers Tangle)
- George Jean Nathan founds The American Spectator, joined in this endeavor by Theodore Dreiser, Ernest Boyd, Eugene O’Neill, and James Branch Cabell
- George S. Kaufman’s Of Thee I Sing is produced
- F. R. Leavis founds the influential literary quarterly Scrutiny at the University of Cambridge
- John Dos Passos publishes 1919, the second volume in his “U.S.A.” trilogy
- Black Elk’s Black Elk Speaks (as told to John G. Neihardt) is published
- T. S. Stribling publishes The Store
- Frans Eemil Sillanpää publishes Miehen tie
- Jean Little is born (January 2)
- Charles Stevenson Wright is born (June 4)
- Robert Coover is born (February 4)
- Umberto Eco is born (January 5)
- Malcolm Bradbury is born (September 7)
- Rosemary Rogers is born (December 7)
- Athol Fugard is born (June 11)
- Fernando Arrabal is born (August 11)
- Charles W. Chesnutt dies (November 15)
- Christopher Okigbo is born (August 16)
- Robert B. Parker is born (September 17)
- V. S. Naipaul is born (August 17)
- John Updike is born (March 18)
- Geoffrey Hill is born (June 18)
- Vassily Aksyonov is born (August 20)
- Melvin Van Peebles is born (August 21)
- Shel Silverstein is born (November 23)
- Arnold Wesker is born (May 24)
- Hart Crane dies (April 27)
- Sylvia Plath is born (October 27)
- Linda Pastan is born (May 27)
- George Ryga is born (July 27)
- Manuel Puig is born (December 28)
- Alexandre Biyidi (“Mongo Beti”) is born (June 30)
- John Jakes is born (March 31)
