Calendar of Literary Facts
Miguel de Unamuno publishes Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho (The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho ) Rubén Dario publishes Cantos de vida y esperanza, Los cisnes, y otros poemas Albert Einstein develops the Special Theory of Relativity
Norway and Sweden become separate nations
In the industrial Ruhr region in Germany, 200,000 miners go on strike
Russian sailors mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin
Henryk Sienkiewicz receives the Nobel Prize for Literature Verner von Heidenstam publishes Folkungatraedet (The Tree of the Folkungs Romain Rolland publishes his ten-volume novel Jean-Christophe The Brooklyn Public Library bans Tom Sawyer Huckleberry Finn from the shelves of its children’s department, citing these books as “bad examples for ingenuous youth”
John O’Hara is born. (Explore: Appointment in Samarra , John O’Hara ) (January 31)
Ayn Rand is born. (Explore: The Fountainhead , Anthem , Ayn Rand ) (February 2)
Phyllis McGinley is born. (Explore: Reactionary Essay on Applied Science , The Conquerors , Phyllis McGinley ) (March 21)
Robert Penn Warren is born. (Explore: All the King's Men , Blackberry Winter , A Place To Come To , Night Rider , Robert Penn Warren ) (April 24)
H. E. Bates is born. (Explore: The Daffodil Sky , H. E. Bates , The Cruise of The Breadwinner ) (May 16)
John Patrick is born. (Explore: The Teahouse of the August Moon , The Hasty Heart , John Patrick ) (May 17)
Mikhail Sholokhov is born. (Explore: And Quiet Flows the Don , The Don Flows Home to the Sea , Mikhail Sholokhov , The Silent Don ) (May 24)
Jean-Paul Sartre is born. (Explore: No Exit , The Wall , Jean-Paul Sartre ) (June 21)
Lionel Trilling is born. (Explore: The Middle of the Journey , Lionel Trilling , Of This Time, Of That Place , The Liberal Imagination , What is Lionel Trilling trying to say when he states, "It is now life and... ) (July 4)
Mildred Augustine Benson is born. Under the name "Carolyn Keene," she contributed to the Nancy Drew series. (Explore: Nancy Drew Series , Carolyn Keene ) (July 10)
Elias Canetti is born. (Explore: Auto-da-Fé , Elias Canetti , The Torch in My Ear ) (July 25)
Stanley Kunitz is born. (Explore: Father and Son , Stanley Kunitz , The Snakes of September ) (July 29)
Mary Mapes Dodge dies. (Explore: Hans Brinker; or, The Silver Skates , Mary Mapes Dodge ) (August 21)
George MacDonald dies. (Explore: The Golden Key , The Princess and the Goblin ) (September 18)
Meyer Levin is born. (Explore: Meyer Levin ) (October 8)
C. P. Snow is born. (Explore: Strangers and Brothers , The Conscience of the Rich , C. P. Snow ) (October 15)
Frederic Dannay is born (October 20)
Emlyn Williams is born. (Explore: The Corn Is Green , Night Must Fall , Emlyn Williams ) (November 26)
Mulk Raj Anand is born. (Explore: Mulk Raj Anand ) (December 12)
Kenneth Rexroth is born. (Explore: Kenneth Rexroth , An Autobiographical Novel , The Signature of All Things , When We with Sappho ) (December 22)
Frank Marshall Davis is born (December 31)