Calendar of Literary Facts
Literary Facts - 1933
- Antonin Artaud publishes his manifesto Le Theatre de la cruaute
- Erle Stanley Gardner introduces his fictional attorney Perry Mason, in the novel The Case of the Velvet Claws
- Maxwell Anderson’s Both Your Houses is produced
- André Malraux publishes La Condition humaine (Man’s Fate)
- Octavio Paz publishes Luna silvestre
- Maxwell Anderson receives Pulitzer Prize in drama for Both Your Houses
- James Thurber publishes My Life and Hard Times
- Erskine Caldwell publishes God’s Little Acre
- Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels oversees the burning of approximately 20,000 books in Berlin
- A severe famine decimates the population of the U.S.S.R.
- U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt introduces his “New Deal,” instituting massive federal relief programs for unemployed Americans
- Adolf Hitler is named Reich Chancellor in Germany, which embarks on a program of statism and rearmament
- The German Reichstag burns under mysterious circumstances; the Nazis blame German Jews and Communists and then tighten their control, granting Hitler total control
- The first German concentration camps are built for incarcerating perceived enemies of the state
- At the urging of the German government, “non-German” books are burned publicly
- Dorothy Parker publishes After Such Pleasures
- T. S. Stribling receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Store
- Ivan Bunin receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Caroline Miller publishes Lamb in His Bosom
- The Holocaust takes place in Europe, at the behest of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany; six million Jews die in this genocidal event
- James Hilton publishes Lost Horizon
- Robert Hillyer publishes his Collected Verse
- John Kingsley (“Joe”) Orton is born (January 1)
- Ernest J. Gaines is born (January 15)
- Alden Nowlan is born (January 25)
- Susan Sontag is born (January 28)
- John Galsworthy dies (January 31)
- Reynolds Price is born (February 1)
- Penelope Lively is born (March 17)
- Philip Roth is born (March 19)
- Vine Deloria Jr. is born (March 26)
- Germany’s Nazi government decrees a general boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses (April 1)
- C. P. Cavafy dies (April 29)
- Barbara Taylor Bradford is born (May 10)
- Andrei Voznesensky is born (May 12)
- Elena Poniatowska is born (May 19)
- Max Eastman publishes “Bull in the Afternoon,” a retrospective article attacking Ernest Hemingway’s craft which enraged Hemingway and eventually led to a scuffle between critic and author (June 7)
- Peter Blue Cloud is born (June 10)
- Jerzy Kosinski is born (June 14)
- Donald E. Westlake is born (July 12)
- David Storey is born (July 13)
- German Jews of East European birth are stripped of their citizenship by the Nazis (July 14)
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko is born (July 18)
- Cormac McCarthy is born (July 20)
- John Gardner Jr. is born (July 21)
- Michael Frayn is born (September 8)
- Ring Lardner dies (September 25)
- Sidney Kingsley’s drama Men in White is first performed (September 26)
- Beryl Bainbridge is born (November 21)
