The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
1915 Literary Facts
Vladimir Mayakovsky publishes Oblako v shtanaakh (A Cloud in Trousers)
W. Somerset Maugham publishes Of Human Bondage
Edgar Lee Masters publishes Spoon River Anthology
Franz Kafka publishes Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis)
Rupert Brooke’s 1914, and Other Poems is published
John Buchan publishes The Thirty-Nine Steps
Ford Madox Ford publishes The Good Soldier
Albert Einstein formulates his general theory of relativity
D. W. Griffith’s film The Birth of a Nation debuts
Inspired by a viewing of the film The Birth of a Nation Col. William J. Simmons founds the modern-day Ku Klux Klan at Stone Mountain, Georgia
James Branch Cabell publishes The Rivet in Grandfather’s Neck
Romain Rolland receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
1.5 million Armenians die in a genocidal massacre conducted by the “Young Turk” government of the Ottoman Empire
The ship Endurance, commanded by Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, becomes entrapped in ice south of Elephant Island, near Antarctica
Thomas Merton is born
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Ketti Frings is born
Richard Condon is born
Explore: The Manchurian Candidate, Richard Condon
Rupert Brooke dies
Herman Wouk is born
Explore: The Caine Mutiny, War and Remembrance, The Winds of War, Herman Wouk
T. S. Eliot publishes “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” in the magazine Poetry
Saul Bellow is born
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Jean Stafford is born
Explore: In the Zoo, Bad Characters, Jean Stafford
Margaret Walker is born
Explore: Jubilee, Margaret Walker, For My People, Why is Margaret Walker's book titled "Jubilee"?
The fictional twosome of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves is introduced by P. G. Wodehouse in the story “Extricating Young Gussie,” published in The Saturday Evening Post
Arthur Miller is born
Explore: Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, Arthur Miller
Roland Barthes is born
Explore: Roland Barthes, The Empire of Signs
Booker T. Washington dies
Explore: Up from Slavery, Booker T. Washington
Yves Theriault is born
Kenneth Millar is born
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