The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
1904 Literary Facts
Hottentot tribesmen unsuccessfully revolt against German colonials in southwest Africa (modern-day Namibia)
Japan defeats Russia in the Russo-Japanese War
The Bloomsbury Group flourishes in London
Wladyslaw Reymont publishes his four-volume epic Chlopi (The Peasants)
Pío Baroja publishes La busca (The Quest)
Luigi Pirandello publishes Il fu Mattia Pascal The Late Mattia Pascal
James Joyce publishes Dubliners
William Stanley Braithwaite publishes Lyrics of Life and Love
J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up is produced
D’Arcy McNickle is born
Explore: The Surrounded, Wind from an Enemy Sky
Louis Zukofsky is born
Explore: Louis Zukofsky, A
S. J. Perelman is born
Explore: S. J. Perelman
MacKinlay Kantor is born
Explore: MacKinlay Kantor, A Man Who Had No Eyes
B. F. Skinner is born
Explore: B. F. Skinner, Beyond Freedom and Dignity
Richard Eberhart is born
Explore: Richard Eberhart, The Fury of Aerial Bombardment, The Groundhog
C. Day Lewis is born
Earle Birney is born
Explore: Vancouver Lights, Earle Birney, Bushed, Themes in Earle Birney's poem "David"
Margery Allingham is born
Explore: Margery Allingham
Pablo Neruda is born
Explore: Ode to My Socks, Tonight I Can Write, Pablo Neruda
Isaac Bashevis Singer is born
Explore: Gimpel the Fool, Isaac Bashevis Singer
Witold Gombrowicz is born
Explore: Witold Gombrowicz
Ralph J. Bunche is born
Kate Chopin dies
Explore: The Awakening, The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin, Exploring Themes, Symbolism, and Emotional Struggles in Kate Chopin's "The Storm"
Christopher Isherwood is born
Explore: Goodbye to Berlin
Graham Greene is born
Explore: The Quiet American, Graham Greene, Innocence in The Quiet American and its societal implications
Moss Hart is born
Explore: Once in a Lifetime
Sylvia Ashton-Warner is born
Alejo Carpentier is born
Explore: The Kingdom of This World, The Lost Steps, Journey Back to the Source, Alejo Carpentier