The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
1917 Literary Facts
Horacio Quiroga publishes Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte
Juan Ramón Jiménez publishes Platero y yo (Platero and I: An Andalusian Elegy)
The Pulitzer Prize is expanded to include journalism and letters
Siegfried Sassoon publishes The Old Huntsman and Other Poems
Paul Valéry publishes La Jeune Parque
The Commonwealth Film Censorship Board is established in Australia, introducing a rating system on films to protect children
The United States enters World War I on the side of the Allies
The Trans-Siberian Railroad is completed
The tank is developed and introduced on the Western Front in World War I
Russia and Germany sign an armistice ending hostilities on the Eastern Front
The first stage of the Russian Revolution occurs in March, with Czar Nicholas II deposed and Aleksandr Kerensky’s provisional government established
The second (and final) stage of the Russian Revolution occurs in October, with a violent uprising in which the Bolsheviks assume power with V. I. Lenin as leader
Knut Hamsun publishes Markens groede (Growth of the Soil)
Ernest Poole publishes His Family
Jesse Lynch Williams’s Why Marry? is first performed
H. L. Mencken publishes A Book of Prefaces
Paul Valéry publishes Le Jeune Parque
Peter Taylor is born
Explore: A Summons To Memphis, Peter Taylor
Sidney Sheldon is born
Explore: Bloodline, Tell Me Your Dreams
Carson McCullers is born
Explore: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers
John Burgess Wilson (Anthony Burgess) is born
Explore: A Clockwork Orange, Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess, Influences on Anthony Burgess's writing of A Clockwork Orange in the context of the 1960s
Robert Lowell is born
Explore: Robert Lowell
Robert Anderson is born
Explore: Tea and Sympathy, Robert Anderson
Jean Cocteau’s ballet Parade, cowritten with Pablo Picasso and others, is performed in Paris
Explore: Jean Cocteau
Gwendolyn Brooks is born
Explore: Gwendolyn Brooks
Cleveland Amory is born
Louis Auchincloss is born
Explore: The Rector of Justin, Louis Auchincloss
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. is born
H. L. Mencken publishes his influential essay on literature “The Sahara of the Bozart” in the New York Evening Mail
Explore: H. L. Mencken, H.L. Mencken's portrayal and implications about Southerners in "Sahara of the Bozart."
Arthur C. Clarke is born
Explore: The Star, If I Forget Thee, O Earth . . ., Arthur C. Clarke
Ossie Davis is born
Explore: Purlie Victorious
Heinrich Boell is born
Explore: Christmas Not Just Once a Year, The Clown, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, Heinrich Böll