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

Ramón del Valle-Inclán publishes Sonata de otono: Memorias del marques de Bradomin (The Pleasant Memories of the Marquis de Bradomin)

Joseph Conrad publishes Heart of Darkness

Charles Alexander Eastman publishes Indian Boyhood

James Madison Bell dies

Vicente Blasco Ibañez publishes Canas y barro (Reeds and Mud)

Published many years earlier but never performed because of its scandalous subject matter, Bernard Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession is produced

The U.S. asserts control over the Panama Canal

Women are granted the right to vote in Australia

Ellen Glasgow publishes The Battle-Ground

Christian Mommsen receives the Nobel Prize for Literature

Grazia Deledda publishes Dopo il divorzio (After the Divorce)

Selma Lagerlöf publishes Jerusalem: I det heliga landet (Jerusalem: Part 2)

Hilaire Belloc publishes The Path to Rome

The Times Literary Supplement, a weekly review of literature and scholarship, begins publication in London

Langston Hughes is born

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Ramón Sender is born

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John Steinbeck is born

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Marcel (Andre) Ayme is born

Halldór Kiljan Gudjonsson (Halldór Laxness) is born

Bret Harte dies

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Joseph Kesselring is born

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Nicolás Guillén is born

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Christina Stead is born

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Georgette Heyer is born

Wallace Thurman is born

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Ogden Nash is born

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Marya Zaturenska is born

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Florence Margaret (“Stevie”) Smith is born

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Luis Cernuda is born

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Emile Zola dies

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Arna Bontemps is born

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Henry Steele Commager is born

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Carlos Drummond de Andrade is born

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Norman MacLean is born

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Andrew Lytle is born

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Mortimer Adler is born