The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
1913 Literary Facts
Niels Bohr and Ernest Rutherford formulate an influential theory of the atomic structure
The socialist weekly New Statesman is founded in London
Modernism flourishes as an English, Irish, and American literary movement
Henry Ford develops the first moving automotive assembly line at his plant in Highland Park, Michigan
Miguel de Unamuno publishes Del sentimiento tragico de la vida en los hombres y en los pueblos (The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and in Peoples)
Marcel Proust publishes A la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past)
Anton Chekhov’s The Sea-gull (The Sea-Gull: A Play in Four Acts) is produced
Willa Cather publishes O Pioneers!
D. H. Lawrence publishes Sons and Lovers
Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion is produced
Guillaume Apollinaire publishes Alcools: Poemes 1898-1913
Rabindranath Tagore receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
Fenton Johnson publishes A Little Dreaming
E. Pauline Johnson dies
R. S. Thomas is born
Explore: Ninetieth Birthday, R. S. Thomas, What is your analysis of R.S. Thomas's poem "Here"?
William Inge is born
Explore: Come Back, Little Sheba, Picnic, Bus Stop, William Inge
Aime Cesaire is born
Explore: The Tragedy of King Christophe, Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, A Tempest
Louis Hemon dies
Robert E. Hayden is born
Robertson Davies is born
Explore: Fifth Business, What's Bred in the Bone, Reading and Writing, Robertson Davies, Why do characters in Robertson Davies' Fifth Business change their names?
Claude Simon is born
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Albert Camus is born
Explore: The Stranger, The Fall, Albert Camus
Karl Shapiro is born
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Jacinto Benavente’s drama La malquerida (The Passionflower) is produced
Muriel Rukeyser is born
Explore: Effort at Speech Between Two People, Muriel Rukeyser