The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.

The Sewanee Review, a literary quarterly, is founded at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee

Ivo Andrič is born

Pearl S. Buck is born

Elmer Rice is born

Archibald MacLeish is born

Georges Feydeau publishes Monsieur chasse! (The Happy Hunter)

James Thomson’s Poems, Essays and Fragments is published

Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid and Other Stories is published

Jean Toomer is born

J. R. R. Tolkien is born

Explore: The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien

Djuna Barnes is born

Explore: Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

Edna St. Vincent Millay is born

Explore: Wild Swans, Love is not all, Renascence, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Identify the personification in lines 9 and 11 of "What lips my lips have kissed" by Millay. What effect does this have?

Ryunosuke Akutagawa is born

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César Vallejo is born

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Robert P. Tristram Coffin is born

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Walt Whitman dies

Explore: Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

Frederick Schiller Faust (Pen name: Max Brand) is born

Explore: Destry Rides Again, Montana Rides Again, Singing Guns

Alfonsina Storni is born

Explore: Alfonsina Storni, Explain the poem "Peso Ancestral" by Alfonsina Storni.

Richard Aldington is born

Explore: Death of a Hero

John Greenleaf Whittier dies

Explore: Snow-Bound, John Greenleaf Whittier, Taylor Caldwell

Alfred, Lord Tennyson dies

Explore: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott, Ulysses