Calendar of Literary Facts
1935
- The government of Persia changes the nation’s name to Iran
- Josephine W. Johnson receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Now in November
- Vicente Aleixandre publishes La destruccion o el amor (Destruction or Love: A Selection from La destruccion o el amor of Vicente Aleixandre)
- Military service is made compulsory in Germany
- Ellen Glasgow publishes Vein of Iron
- Clifford Odets’s Waiting for Lefty [and] Till the Day I Die: Two Plays are produced
- C. P. Cavafy’s Poiemata is published
- Isaac Bashevis Singer publishes Der Satan in Gorey (Satan in Goray)
- Clive Barker publishes Poems
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s philosophical works are banned in the Soviet Union
- Louis MacNeice publishes Poems
- Italian forces invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
- Frank Marshall Davis publishes Black Man’s Verse
- U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act into law
- Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren found The Southern Review at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge
- Laws to severely restrict the rights of Jews, the “Nuremberg Laws,” take effect in Germany
- Italian forces attack and conquer Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
- Muriel Rukeyser publishes Theory of Flight
- Maxwell Anderson’s Winterset is produced
- Zoe Akins receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for The Old Maid
- Zoë Akins’s drama The Old Maid is first performed
- Thomas Wolfe publishes Of Time and the River
- Albert Jay Nock publishes Our Enemy the State
- Robert P. Tristram Coffin publishes Strange Holiness
- Harold Lenoir Davis publishes Honey in the Horn
- Mulk Raj Anand publishes Untouchable
- Eyvind Johnson publishes Volume II of his tetralogy Romanem om Olaf, entitled Haer har du ditt liv!
- Audrey Wurdemann receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Bright Ambush
- Elias Canetti publishes Die Blendung (Auto-da-Fe)
- Enid Bagnold publishes National Velvet
- Woody Allen is born (December 1)
- David Hackett Fischer is born (December 2)
- Carol Shields is born (June 2)
- Ed Bullins is born (July 2)
- Edwin Arlington Robinson dies (April 5)
- Joy Nozomi Kogawa is born (June 6)
- Thomas Keneally is born (October 7)
- Mary Oliver is born (September 10)
- John Pepper Clark is born (March 13)
- Jay Wright is born (February 14)
- The German Reichstag passes the “Nuremburg Laws,” stripping German-born Jews of their citizenship and barring them from marrying Aryans or flying the German flag (September 15)
- Susan Brownmiller is born (February 15)
- Will Rogers dies (August 15)
- Ken Kesey is born (September 17)
- George William Russell (“A.E.”) dies (July 17)
- Ellen Gilchrist is born (February 20)
- Françoise Quoirez (Sagan) is born (June 21)
- Ann Rule is born (October 22)
- E. Annie Proulx is born (August 22)
- Hyemeyohsts Storm is born (May 23)
- Joseph A. Walker is born (February 23)
- W. P. Kinsella is born (May 25)
- Larry Kramer is born (June 25)
- Charles Wright is born (August 25)
- David Lodge is born (January 28)
- Richard Brautigan is born (January 30)
- Fernando Pessoa dies (November 30)
- Henri Barbusse dies (August 30)
- Eldridge Cleaver is born (August 31)
- Kenzaburo Oe is born (January 31)
- Robert Silverberg is born (January 35)
